No, but almost all of Apple's hardware is tiered with different price levels, I don't expect it to be any different here. Lots of rumors around them working on a cheaper consumer version, I'll bet we see something announced at WWDC 2024 or 2025.
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At $3,500, will you buy a Vision Pro?
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No, but almost all of Apple's hardware is tiered with different price levels, I don't expect it to be any different here. Lots of rumors around them working on a cheaper consumer version, I'll bet we see something announced at WWDC 2024 or 2025.
uhh can I be his friend too? wtf
One thing that concerns me is that it “STARTS at” $3499. I wonder if that $3499 SKU will skimp out on internal storage or RAM. Also wonder if they’ll make an (expensive) first-party travel case for it.
Is this a thread about the price or the technology?
If it’s the former, then
why not just plug it into a wall outlet?
Well I thought about it for a fraction of second and my answer will have to be no.
The price is rather audacious I think. I also like to enjoy my surroundings when sitting watching a film, playing games and working, not isolated within a headset.
The price is rather audacious I think. I also like to enjoy my surroundings when sitting watching a film, playing games and working, not isolated within a headset.
Lol. He’s been my best friend for 45 years. He wanted to thank me for the two months earlier in the year that I spent caring for his wife and two kids after she had an accident that immobilised her. I refused the offer, they are like my family, but he was adamant.
Yeah who needs a two year old chip. The consumer version is basically meta quest 3 you say? Lol.
I need to think about it more and see its full final capabilities and all its nuances, but if it can help me do my job better, which I think it has potential to, then yes.
Otherwise, if only for personal use, based off the features we have seen so far, at that price and heft, I doubt it. For me it would need to somehow come down to around half the price, or somehow be incredibly thin and light with good battery life, or have more some more great functionality that I haven’t yet seen, or some combination of those.
Otherwise, if only for personal use, based off the features we have seen so far, at that price and heft, I doubt it. For me it would need to somehow come down to around half the price, or somehow be incredibly thin and light with good battery life, or have more some more great functionality that I haven’t yet seen, or some combination of those.
Yup a common problem, friends that randomly buy 3500 USD products for one. This will be a real issue.
Let’s hope they don’t ask the team that made that bra case for the AirPods Max …
Looks like amazing technology but out of my budget for a want not a need.
I am surprised they didn’t demo any new unique apps - seemingly it’s upgrades to MacOS apps for now.
Plenty of room to grow and hopefully app developers embrace the tech
But does annyone else get the feeling this will open an even bigger wave of subscriptions? Sports games, museum tours, site seeing, virtual zoo visits, etc
I am surprised they didn’t demo any new unique apps - seemingly it’s upgrades to MacOS apps for now.
Plenty of room to grow and hopefully app developers embrace the tech
But does annyone else get the feeling this will open an even bigger wave of subscriptions? Sports games, museum tours, site seeing, virtual zoo visits, etc
Frankly speaking, there's really no need to commit to a decision now.
Thanks to Apple's retail stores, you have the ability to book an appointment to try one on and decide for yourself. Given how each unit needs to be customised to the individual customer, you probably don't want to be ordering a stock unit online anyways.
And since it's US only, this will give me plenty of time to get a sensing of what using it will be like via the multitude of YouTube videos and tech reviews that will follow. By the time it does come to Singapore, I should more or less have made my decision, which is to probably wait for V2. By then, the ecosystem should be more mature, it should (hopefully) be perfectly normal to be seen with one, and use outdoors (at least in the workplace) will have been normalised.
But I definitely do see myself using one in the future.
Thanks to Apple's retail stores, you have the ability to book an appointment to try one on and decide for yourself. Given how each unit needs to be customised to the individual customer, you probably don't want to be ordering a stock unit online anyways.
And since it's US only, this will give me plenty of time to get a sensing of what using it will be like via the multitude of YouTube videos and tech reviews that will follow. By the time it does come to Singapore, I should more or less have made my decision, which is to probably wait for V2. By then, the ecosystem should be more mature, it should (hopefully) be perfectly normal to be seen with one, and use outdoors (at least in the workplace) will have been normalised.
But I definitely do see myself using one in the future.
I don't care about price, I care about the lack of family use cases.
What i mean, if I want to see a movie, binge a show, watch a sports game, browse photos, play games etc, i want to do it with my family.
Until they figure this out, I don't think this can become mainstream
What i mean, if I want to see a movie, binge a show, watch a sports game, browse photos, play games etc, i want to do it with my family.
Until they figure this out, I don't think this can become mainstream
Apple had a chance to show something truly game changing and they showed a toy for rich people. The iPhone wowed, the iPad wowed, and the watch got it right.
They had a chance to do to the incredibly niche headset industry what they did to the incredibly niche smartphone industry in 2007 and they blew it. It will continue to be a niche and I suspect Apple knew that when designing this, otherwise they would have actually try to of made it useful. Unlike all the other devices i mentioned that started out at higher prices, this is going to be difficult to get to an “affordable” price point, and even so you will never see these things at under $1000, hell probably not even under $2000 so this is a nonstarter.
Sorry Apple you can have your stupid ****ing face computer.
I wondered how Apple’s first truly major Post-Jobs and Ive product would be and here’s the answer.
They had a chance to do to the incredibly niche headset industry what they did to the incredibly niche smartphone industry in 2007 and they blew it. It will continue to be a niche and I suspect Apple knew that when designing this, otherwise they would have actually try to of made it useful. Unlike all the other devices i mentioned that started out at higher prices, this is going to be difficult to get to an “affordable” price point, and even so you will never see these things at under $1000, hell probably not even under $2000 so this is a nonstarter.
Sorry Apple you can have your stupid ****ing face computer.
I wondered how Apple’s first truly major Post-Jobs and Ive product would be and here’s the answer.
Likewise. I just need a bit more info like, if it works with computer what OS, same with the phone or is it independent of the OS(hoping) etc...
You clearly weren’t there when Apple Watch launched because there were gold models that cost thousands and here you go with your statement born of ignorance & ego assertion.
Sure, yeah, they had the Edition line that went up to $10k+. But the Apple Watch started at $349 at its initial launch in 2015.
Those models died a death pretty quickly due to the high cost and were extremely niche. Hopefully those are not a good comparison to a headset that seems massively overpriced at this point but may have some market potential.