Wow reading the comments, how much pessimism. It feels like 2007, 2010, 2014, 2016 again. I think it’s hard NOT to see the potential of VR/AR.
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Apple's Struggles With Long-Rumored AR/VR Headset Detailed in New Report
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I agree, I never use it myself. It’s like they are going to try and see if it sticks.
Yep. And wirelessly tethered to your iPhone where AR apps live and processing occurs, with access to internet for information/documents, and powered by a decent size battery to handle the processing. With UWB for the multiple video links to glasses.
There's so much potential for AR. Since Apple has been collaborating with Stanford University's VR/AR lab for years, I expect an interesting suite of productivity AR/VR apps from Apple on launch day.
Oh sure, same as mobile phones in that respect. But smart phones were niche (and sucked) before the iPhone, same as tablets, same as smart watches, same as existing AR/VR headsets.
Apple is 3 for 3 on mainstreaming previously niche tech that everyone assumed would never go mainstream. The headset will be no different.
It's not a mass consumer device. Tim Cook has made it clear this device is for developers, high end producers and early adopters. Apple is not going to enter the low end sub $800 market. Those th
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That’s typically how it goes on sites like this.
Others refuse to see the potential in future technology they don’t understand, therefore; they shame or dismiss it. Just because an unreleased product doesn’t meet their narrative, means the mentality of “No one would want this……”.
I don’t allow the Internet to make judgements for me, staying open minded to the potential of AR/VR likely will benefit my chosen industry.
we've had vr/ar for a very long time now and it doesn't suck, it's just not the game changer people thought it would be.
Maybe in the iPod and iPhone, but it was very easy to switch out the battery in a few minutes on the Mac Book Pro.
Yet…no one (Including yourself) here knows what Apple is doing in this sector, plan of execution and how they plan on demoing this new architecture.
Until the technology gets to the point where it is no different than wearing a regular pair of glasses it is going to be very intrusive.
Define a very long time? VR consumer products have selling for the past 6-7 years, or for a couple of years in the 90s. Inbetween the 90s and now, we had a large gap of nothing, so we don't count that.
That's still less than 10 years. It took 15 years for cellphones, PCs, and consoles to take off.
As for AR? We have the Nreal Light - the first consumer device available in the US and yet even that feels like an Altair 8800, which was before Apple II. That's one product that's barely a product. It's safe to say consumer AR has had zero years on the market.
there won't be anything new. maybe enhanced experiences of what we already have, but not new ones.
That makes very, to little no sense.
So please provide sources then in terms of how Apple isn’t demoing anything ‘new’, since you seemingly have knowledge of what they have in store for the future of an unreleased product.
Sadly, many people are not able to feel good about themselves unless they can complain about something else. It's about getting that little blip of feel-good power, that's otherwise lacking in their day.
Wow this is quite the leak! It really seems like AR/VR is going the way of 3D TVs. AR/VR has very good niche use cases but I don't think it will take off with the general public.
Present technology I do understand -- as exemplified by the Oculus Rift that's sitting in a drawer a foot and a half to my right.
I think Apple will bootstrap this into existence as an expensive accessory to design and visualization software, playing to Apple's strengths. But is that enough to get the critical mass necessary to keep it going until someone comes up with its killer app? I'd like them to have a big new category-defining product, but I don't see how this turns into one.
If AR/VR was supposed to go the way of 3D TVs, it would already be dead with no work going on in the space.
People forget that 3D TVs died very fast.
Which is why those execs didn’t approve the camera upgrade in 2018. They themselves couldn’t see the vision. Meta is bleeding cash because of it. All it’s allowing devs there to do is order expensive MacBook Pro’s at the company’s expense. I know because I follow one Facebook or at least stalk their account. ?
I don't really see a reason for VR headsets other than gaming and porn. Since Apple likes to pretend porn doesn't exist, and gamers use PC's, the VR headset seems like a big waste of time and money.
That's exactly how people thought of early PCs. There are plenty of applications for the tech.