This hasn’t even been released yet and it is a 1.0 product. It’s going to change radically over the next several months and years. Inputs , like the keyboard, are an area where i would expect a lot of different ideas to be tried out and for it to evolve rapidly. i wouldn’t get discouraged this early in the game.
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Apple Vision Pro Virtual Keyboard Blasted As 'Complete Write-Off'
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So to type you’d look at your phone’s screen through cameras on the headset with screens in the headset.
Seems like a weird solution that’s bound not to work as expected. What exactly does a real monitor or phone screen look like mitigated by the AVP system?
EVERY non-hardware keyboard - including touch screen ones - is a sliding scale of awful compromises.
Well Apple is known to be pretty dense about things. Not the smartest bunch of people out there for sure. Less said about Apple fans, who feed them, the better.
Imaginary Steve Jobs certainly would not have allowed those. Except for mobile me. I love having a me.com email address.
It absolutely HAS to have a keyboard, and so it will have a virtual keyboard.
If it didn't have a virtual keyboard, then a good many of the million apps it supports out of the box will be crippled with no way to enter text unless you attach a physical keyboard.
Being a 1st gen product, expected to see such issues. Over time it will be perfected.
Oh, he would have, he would have led the band, driving the float, he so would have... he let crud like Final Cut Pro X to market, along with the iphone... Steve was no angel, he sold clangers as well as tim has.. Steve would have sold toilet paper with the apple logo for $39 a roll if offered... No question Steve was about selling..
But this is just it. Expectations are sky-high. It doesn't make much sense to release something that is worse than the competition. I really hope this thing doesn't bomb.
It's so obvious that it doesn't provide physical haptic feedback.
Without a doubt, this is the form of the future, what else could it be?
In the future, these devices will become smaller, more portable, and with increasing functionality. Technology needs to iterate gradually.
Without a doubt, this is the form of the future, what else could it be?
In the future, these devices will become smaller, more portable, and with increasing functionality. Technology needs to iterate gradually.
… it could be worse, imagine they released the iphone without copy/paste function.
I think some people in here need to here themselves talk. Some in here are complaining (rightly) about the keyboard and others are defending Apple by saying it is a rev/gen 1.0 product therefore expect some issues. Are those people really saying that for a product that is going to cost $3500??, to put up with a no functioning virtual keyboard!!!. For the price it is being sold at I would be expecting everything to work close to flawlessly. If Apple is unable to get a virtually keyboard working properly then they should reduce the price of the VP because in my opinion it is completely arrogant of anyone to say 'get a bluetooth keyboard'. No, make sure the virtual keyboard works first and if Apple cannot then offer buyers a free bluetooth keyboard upon purchase of the VP or reduce the price of the VP.
The iphone was, is, and will forever remain a product found on the same shelf as Fisher Price my first laptop, it was/is/forever will be a toy... Using dongles is juvenile and pediatric.. it shows a complete lack of any sort of engineering maturity..Apple products show this.. from the apps to and through hardware, look at how Apple pay failed..
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Well, perhaps that explains the success of UK government IT projects.
*big winky smiley*
But Sir Mr Legend himself, Mr Sinclair created the boss of computers, the Speccy, a total legend..
This is going to be HILARIOUS to see being used in situations where people are wearing an Apple Vision Pro on a plane! They either a) Will be poking in the air b) Shouting out what movie or whatever they are typing (SO private) or c) Busting out the good old “travel” Bluetooth keyboard just because they rather have a “big screen”. Imagine having to have to sit next to the person with one of these on. Hopefully they don’t have an aisle seat!
As someone who draws on a pen monitor (Cintiq), I’m very interested to find this out. If it doesn’t look absolutely right, it will probably be a deal breaker for me on the VP.
Great point, actually - with voice recognition getting better and better all the time.
Ok, I need a keyboard for it now.....might as well get a mouse.....hmmmm, HP is having a sale on 24" monitors.
I love you. Great question, why do I need this instead of a computer monitor? It's not like I am taking the VisionPro on the go anyways....