How about if it works when completely under water? It looks like a snorkeling mask, so it would not be much different.
I hope everyone buys one, so Apple can eventually make one that just looks like glasses.
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I hope everyone buys one, so Apple can eventually make one that just looks like glasses.
I was thinking about an interface like this the other night. They could use the sensor data from (or add new electrodes to) an Apple Watch to improve the keyboard accuracy, on top of whatever is being done in the headset. Then, a few years later, maybe you could type in-air with just a watch as well.
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Typed this using a classic iPhone keyboard. 😃
I’m not interested in Apple’s AR/VR headset.
Used ‘In-Air' feature: Results were backward. 🙄
.tesdeah RV/RA s’elppA ni detseretni ton m’I.
I’m not interested in Apple’s AR/VR headset.
Used ‘In-Air' feature: Results were backward. 🙄
.tesdeah RV/RA s’elppA ni detseretni ton m’I.
Yep, I want to replace my car every 2 to 3 years because it is no longer supported. That's me.
Yeah that line caught me by surprise too. Gotta wonder what areas it’s underperforming outside of VR chat… With an M2 chip, this headset should technically be the most powerful standalone headset on the market.
You also gotta wonder (assuming this rumor is true) if Apple plans for this headset to be a more limited production, and if the launch won’t be until late 2023 then why not do one of the following to offset the performance issues:
1. Since there will apparently be a waste mounted battery compartment, why not make it a little bigger and move the SOC into that unit? That should allow them more space to fit in an M2 Pro which should give them a graphical power boost.
Or
2. Just use an M3 since the headset won’t launch until M3 season anyways… The fact that this headset will be a more limited production should prevent it from biting into the 3nm supply too much.
Just my .2 but it seems dumb to launch something that is already not meeting performance expectations… Sure doesn’t sound good for long term owners. In fact, you gotta wonder what the average ownership for these headsets will be. I’m thinking 3-5 years.
Most current AR commercial usage is professional. Example doing AR medical surgery.
In fact most of the AR examples that I saw Apple involved with were using AR to provide additional information so you could experience more realistic examples with varied educational topics. I know everyone got exciting with Ready Player One, but who would buy something this expensive and play games? This rumor suggests Apple is trying to make it mimic some iPhone abilities at a much higher cost and size increase.
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I am going to take a "Wait and See' attitude, but yeah, I don't either. I also make a rule to never buy first gen anything.
There’s an antipathy, I believe, because it’s further evidence of Apple‘s decline in some people’s eyes. From an innovative market leader which is conservative in its product lines, to a company which iterates the same product with minor improvements and now purveys in gimmick products that seem to be very poorly thought out.
The rumored feature set is terrible. Just focus on bringing real keyboards and real iPhones into the VR/AR environment, so people can still use those with a headset. Include a set of hand held controllers to use when not at a desk. Not everything can or should be a finger tracked gesture in the air. If it comes out as rumored it's definitely looking like a wait for the second or 3rd gen type of device.
There's also antipathy from people who have used VR devices, understand their shortfalls and recognize that Apple isn't even attempting to address them (IF the rumors are true). From my perspective they are pursuing an idealized of VR that you can only hold when you haven't experienced it. Hopefully it's just unfounded speculation from "analysts" that haven't actually experienced VR, not Apple themselves.
Did you bother to read the second sentence? Seems you did not.
Name one of the products you stated above where the main feature of the product, and a crucial one at that, was degraded in quality.
I will stand by what I said. Making a cheaper but lower quality screen where the quality of the screen and its immersion into the VR is its most crucial and main component. If you are not fully immersed its a bad product.
No one wants to see holes in the matrix. It' ruins the experience.
Sounds like an ergonomic nightmare, actually. It's not okay to have an arm-fatiguing touchscreen Mac, but it's okay to have to wave your arms around in the air?
Maybe you're 100% right.
But you also 100% sound like those people hating on the first iPhone before it was announced.
Wait, maybe it will suck, maybe it'll great, maybe it'll great for a specific kind of people...
Might help for those with anxiety. Sometimes the real world is tough on certain people and people need to space out.
I'm still not convinced that this will end up becoming a mainstream succes. It makes me wonder how many good features and necessary bug fixes Apple would have been able to bring to iOS and macOS if all the engineering and design capacity was invested there.