Heartbreakingly there’s next to no chance this will be SteamVR compatible, unless someone makes their own hacky software to make it detectable on Windows.
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Apple's Rumored $3,000+ AR/VR Headset Said to Enter Mass Production in August-September
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$3000 bucks!! Good luck selling a-lot of these!
GAS PRICES ARE HIGH
INFLATION OUT OF CONTROL.
RENT AND HOUSING OUT OF CONTROL.
GAS PRICES ARE HIGH
INFLATION OUT OF CONTROL.
RENT AND HOUSING OUT OF CONTROL.
"The second product in works are Apple Glasses" ....Let's be honest, that is not true. That is never happening. There is no commercial market for such a thing. Google and others proved that was an inherently horrible idea.
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I’m thinking closer to $999 is where we’ll land.
The “$3k” and “for developers-only” language is to ruffle feathers on this site. Apple isn’t in the “for devs-only” business. Obviously.
? I already can see a few die hard Apple fans wearing that monstrous Glass with AirPods Max. Once that happens i won’t stop laughing the whole week.
Why do I get the feeling that VR will mess up the Mental & eyes.
What's wrong with current physical reality?
What's wrong with current physical reality?
3K for VR porn with spatial audio AirPods pro ? ....
YES PLEASE, TAKE MY MONEY
YES PLEASE, TAKE MY MONEY
If Tim was running things back then it would have.
And yet Google is investing again along with many other companies into AR glasses. Google as usual messed up Google Glass because they can't do hardware. Apple can and will.
Look at Apple, at the guys running on their campus, and you have the proof you aren't wrong, whole Apple is probably involved into the project since many years.
Google only proved that it wasn't able to make a good enough product for wide adoption.
With the advent of AR and other "keep your phone in the pocket" situations (which is already happening with Apple Watch) it's gonna be great for fitness, notifications, navigation, media consumption and web browsing (have a full size virtual web browser in front of you, instead of slouching at a 6" screen held at your chest level).
If it's light enough and non-intrusive people will wear it as another "accessory" that will allow them to not reach for their phones ever! Just the glasses and earbuds and you're fine!
Not to mention a lot of professional use cases as well
Company are here to make money & they don't care about long term impact about the health issues. iPhone still affect so many lives if not using wisely.
Damn, I love Stone Age ? - the life must be really beautiful & no fear.
I prefer the online versions. The live performance of all presenters, except Craig, is below par. Even in videos they are scared half to death.
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If you wear these, virtual gas will fuel your virtual car (any car by the way) to take you anywhere you want to go. There is no scarcity of virtual gas either. In fact, magically, the car will always be full.
Virtual cash will be abundant to out-pace the bite of inflation in any virtual shop you visit. In fact, there is no inflation in virtual world and everything you want to buy can be had for $0... except Apple products of course (including Apple virtual products).
And while you may be living under a bridge or similar, through the magical goggles, you can feel like you are living in any mansion/castle/yacht to which no bills ever arrive, sun is always shining, garage full of any cars you want to drive, etc.
Virtual Siri can be your significant other… and any children or pets you want too.
Occasionally, the other guy living too near you under the bridge may interrupt the matrix-like illusion but you deal with him, then right back into the fantasy.
Done well, this can get towards matrix-like experiences (at least for eyes and ears)… your own primitive Star Trek holodeck. Version 2 brings Apple smellerator (to try to fool that sense). Version 3 brings full body suit to fool the sense of touch. Etc.
Oh, and it may play a few 3D games too.?
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Forget the price tag, my question is, do people really want to strap screens to their heads at least a couple of times a week? Except us, tech freaks, and those that just want to try it out or experience it occasionally once in a while, I wonder how big is that market. I am not sure there is enough of a demand yet.
Apple already sells a huge number of Macbook Pros, Imacs, Mac Pros, Stand alone Monitors, etc that are speced to well exceed the $3k that this is reported to cost. They will not think twice about 3K.
This article (hopefully correct) talks about a device directed at pro verticals. Very excited to see what apple is able to produce here.
What is this exactly? Yet more entertainment? A personal billboard? A portable sensory deprivation tank? Sounds like an early Matrix style prototype. Someday this will be an implant, and your pathetic life will be all candy and cartoons. Enjoy.
The big opportunity is in A/R. Imagine a view of the world with information (of all kinds) layered on top of it and Minority Report style interfaces. If Apple's first foray into this is a vastly improved HoloLens type device, don't think of it as a first iPhone or iPad. It will be more like the Lisa (or the first Macs) -- giving people (and more specifically entrepreneurs and devs) a way to prepare for the future. In this case a future of ubiquitous look through A/R devices; be they packaged as glasses, contact lenses, or some heretofore unknown form.
"Apple's first AR headset, mainly targeting professional vertical market applications" seems pretty clear.
Cmon now Apple has been investing billions in what will be almost a decade. It’s going to be a game changer maybe even bigger than iPhone…can’t wait!
Can someone inform Apple that there is something called Oculus Quest 2 (or meta, I dunno anymore), that is 299$ and a lot of people are buying?
I have a first gen oculus rift on my gaming PC (very much an indulgence) and have at least 5 friends that have bought Quest 2.
Unless Apple brings something totally innovative to the table … I have strong doubts about this. I’m very skeptical.
I have a first gen oculus rift on my gaming PC (very much an indulgence) and have at least 5 friends that have bought Quest 2.
Unless Apple brings something totally innovative to the table … I have strong doubts about this. I’m very skeptical.