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Apple Working on AR/VR Headset With 8K Displays and No Smartphone or Computer Tether
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Not overkill at all. 8K is around the minimum required so that we won't be able to see the pixels. And we will need at least 90FPS or more - anything less would be prone to create nausea.
this is hilarious to read.
thanks for the friday afternoon giggles MacRumours
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but it's also not a computer! even though, it is in fact, a computer
You've been around for the iPad Pro introduction, yes? Where the performance was comparable in may facets to Intel's current i7's? - which the A10x was fabbed on a 10nm FinFET process. If you consider how Apple has scaled the performance of their in-house designed chips over the course of the last 4-5 generations, coupled with a smaller node process to 5nm - this is entirely feasible and reasonable. Never mind that they would be custom designing both the size and IPC of the chip to match the performance needed when targeting dual 8K displays at comfortable refresh rates.
And I think it's pretty obvious, the reference to it not being a computer, is that you won't be interfacing with it like a traditional computer. The external box will be the hardware necessary to drive the headset, and not much else, which is common sense. From there I actually think Apple could do really well here, even if the first round device is expensive, successive models will be more affordable and Apple has the know how to make it extremely accessible to an incredibly large group of developers - which once the hardware exists to create the seamless experience, is the next major obstacle.
Just look at what Microsoft is doing with Hololens - custom designing chips for it, current prices are way beyond average consumer and development is only happening at the very high end, for extremely large customers. You take Apples Swift developers, give them an extremely easy to use SDK, and deep market penetration, and there's success to be had.
Only to find out NO ONE WANTS OR NEEDS THEM. I’m sure many Apple employees feeling this way now with the X and HomePod flops. LOL. Apple need to stick to their core values. Totally directionless now. Or maybe too many directions.
Guess you don’t read the reports. You waiting to hear it from Cook?!? Don’t hold your breath.
I ask again, source of the X being a flop? Thanks in advance.
Apple uses subpar gpu's, how on Earth could it drive 8k x2, when it can't currently drive a single 4k display in recent games. This sounds like the homepod release all over again. Hyped to the extreme.
Have you ever tried VR? Your eyeball is right up against the screen. 8K is probably around the rez where you finally stop being able to notice the screen door effect. It's certainly not overkill.
And I doubt it will be prohibitively expensive to have high rez screens like that by the time something like this actually comes out (2+ years).
Not really, from a very short distance, 4K content experience doesn't come as realistic as 8K. I do think that 8K is the sweet spot, more then 8K will be an overkill.
Not true at all, their custom designed GPU's are better than anything else on the market, in like 90% of use cases. Unless you're talking about GPU's in their computers, which they use from Intel, Nvidia or AMD - i.e., not their own.
Right, the X and airpods are clearly successes by all objective standards. There are plenty of actual, real things you can criticize Apple for without inventing "failures" that are not. Making stuff up like that totally destroys your credibility.
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Doubling down on secrecy, lol
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lol, except on release they won't have the 3d driver finished yet. it will be 2d with the promise of 3d 'sometime next year'
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lol, except on release they won't have the 3d driver finished yet. it will be 2d with the promise of 3d 'sometime next year'
While VR is, IMHO, mostly only good for gaming, entertainment and similar tasks, AR will be used for things we haven't thought of yet, just like we never imagined today's computers and software forty years ago.
But right now? I'll take myself as the first example. I make plans for my projects in Sketchup. I would absolutely love to be able to see my designs life-size in my workshop and interact with them.
Second example: architects would be able to "walk" inside the homes/RVs/boats/etc they design and so would their customers. All you need is a huge empty room, big enough for people to walk around each floor plan. Change things such as cabinet heights/colour/patterns/styles/etc at the touch of a button.
Third example: online buyers would be able to "see" products before buying them. It's one thing to read measurements on product pages, it's another to see how small/big the product is on your desk/floor. I keep reading comments on Amazon about people saying "it looked bigger/smaller in the photo", for example.
All we can do is think of ideas using our current technology, knowledge and ideas. If someone told me 25 years ago that regular people would stream movies and TV shows via the Internet in the future, I would have told him it's impossible.