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Apple Vision Pro to Feature 'Travel Mode' for Better In-Flight Experience
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I love Apple. But this needs to fail hard. This is not something anyone should be out wearing in public. It’s just wrong. Want to veg out in your living room? Go for it. But leave this stupid thing at home. The real world is better than any simulation these tech companies want you to give your soul to.
Does the Vision Pro have noise-canceling? If not, the noise on a plane sure cripples the experience.
In Europe lots of airlines, especially charters, don't have them. Maybe the more expensive seats, but I haven't seen them in economy.
It doesn’t have headphones. You can pair any Bluetooth headphones to them though, like AirPods, etc.
Looking at the design, it doesn't seem that you could wear headphones (or Airpods) and Vision Pro at the same time.
It does have speakers, but I assume that the person in the next seat will hear the music too then.
Maybe Apple comes up with a "one more thing..." next year? A Vision Pro AirPod accessory for say 799 🤡
Not sure what you’re looking at, as it took me 10 seconds to find an image that clearly does you can wear AirPods with the AVP, as it doesn't cover the ears.
I don't even wanna know what's on that person's VR screen if they're wriggling...
And I definitely wouldn't want to sit next to a narcissist who thinks the entire world revolves around them.
Btw, they won't invade your precious golden PRIVATE space more than someone using a mobile phone, And unfortunately for you, you do not get to decide what they wear or what they use at the seat they have paid for.
Only the weak people! Us, real men, have no problems with this. Jokes aside - What the difference now, when ppl have sleeping mask on, or reading a book? People who cant do anything on a plane or car currently, wont really be using this headset on a planes anyways..Hopefully Apple is smart enough to have a "traveling mode"where the ups and downs of the vehicle or plane are reflected in watching the content because if Apple keeps everything stationary and your body is feeling up-and-down you will quickly become nauseated.
I guess it helps to read the article, it looks like they are way ahead of me, excellent.
Are you under the impression that people are just going to be wearing these out and about beyond places where people use notebooks? Cuz I don’t know what planes you’re riding in but the “real word” is not better than a simulated environment in any plane cabin I’ve been. I can’t speak to the “give your soul” hyperbole since I haven’t experienced anything like that yet.
But out of curiosity, do you have strong feelings about everything people wear (hats, headphones, etc) on planes as well, or is this disdain specific to what's on another person's face?
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While I know replying to a suspended account isn't really a useful use of time, but the google glass controversy was mostly irrational hysteria, with a just a sprinkling of rational privacy concerns. Snapchat's spectacles didn't see the same wave of concern, nor did Facebook's collaboration with Ray-ban. You can buy Ray-ban Stories right now and people quit talking about them shortly after launch.
While there are areas where recording of any nature should be (and is) banned, the glasses on your face ship has long since sailed. Privacy will be brought up because Apple has such incredible reach; but I'd expect their headset to have the most responsibly implemented privacy solutions when compared to others that people are not complaining about.
Very interesting. Should be interesting to see how this works in practice.
I saw a picture where someone had the bands partly covering the ears. Don't know on which site I saw this.
Probably some dodgy render then, rather than anything official, like a proper Photo, as I’ve seen many like the one I shared.
This isn’t glasses. This is far more powerful than any of the previous examples and therefore capable of a lot more invasion.
A recording device that looks like normal glasses and is meant to be worn when you are out and about is going to have a much higher chance of causing actual privacy violations than a chunky headset that is going to be mostly used at home. Even standard smartphones are more capable of invading privacy than a chunky VR headset.
People around you won’t be able to see your screens, so it’s more private.
Though I suppose you are referring to eye tracking data, which doesn’t leave the device, so your privacy isn’t exposed there, either.
That user was suspended, as was wanting to just start arguments and not posting genuine criticism, so not worth replying to them.
What a useless reply. If you think my “opinion” is wrong, tell us why.
Well, it isn’t speculation that other people won’t be able to see the internal screens in your headset.
As far as eye tracking data leaving the device, at the very least third parties won’t have access, and it would be completely out of character for Apple to collect that data and send it off device. Unless Apple is lying in their developer documentation released so far that specifically says developers won’t have access to eye tracking…