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Here's a First In-Person Look at the Apple Vision Pro
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It won’t be as ubiquitous as the iPhone. It doesn’t replace the iPhone. But I can see 30% of iPhone users eventually owning one.
The VR is already in Vision Pro. It’s basically a VR device built from the ground up to be AR.
The first places to be wearing this will be your living room. It’s not as weird. You’re not going to walk around outside wearing this.
That’s why most of the scenes in the demo were done on the couch 🛋️.
And I think it will be adopted fairly well in work places too.
I think your original assessment was correct. It is a VR device - and an AR device. As such, it has all the downside of a VR device: it's ugly and bulky. If you don't mind being seen wearing this thing, I think you're in a very small, super-dorky minority. Sure, it might be useful to use as an external display - when you're sitting alone in a hotel room while traveling
If you think this is like buying an M2 Mac, a 3D 100" OLED screen, and an iPhone, you've bought Apple PR hook-line-and-sinker as that's what they said at the end of their spiel. Let me ask you this: how's the rest of your family - provided you have one - going to share your new 100" OLED screen? Note that in all the use cases, those folks wearing the Vision Pro are *alone*.If this version was solely geared towards developers, why would developers buy it and write applications for it? Developers write apps in order to sell them and make money - how would they make money if nobody else has a Vision Pro??? Are they supposed to write these apps in the hope that some day there will be a mass market? Can they afford to wait 3-5 years until Apple has miniaturized it enough so people are willing to buy it - provided the price also comes down to iPhone levels? It's a chicken and egg problem. And Apple - by releasing this ugly thing - hasn't created a market that developers would be willing to write apps for.
Yes, i hadn't considered that. This device will make you immune to nearly any weapon.
So am I. Incredibly beautiful sleek design. Given all it contains with sensors, 4K resolution, cameras, etc, it's a very refined electronic device that's worth the price. Can't wait to get it.
That is true. I'm much more likely to wear this at home alone, or even with family/roommates.
The elephant in the room is that you need to wear bulky goggles and have an external battery pack. Otherwise the technology is interesting.
Difference: That was Steve's style. This entire presentation was like stand-ins for the Beatles, call them the Onos and everyone trying to project Steve's style and vibe in presentation.
Each time they do so the worse the presentation.
Steve would have demoed the products or not shown them and he would have never released macOS Sonoma with such weak offerings. Same with iOS and iPadOS.
He would have demanded more than 2 glued M2s and RAM options much higher. How do I know? I worked for him at NeXT and Apple.
And when he checked work he was indifferent and coldly blunt about Calling it Crap, but a different version starting with S.
Unless the man was blown away a product never saw the light of day. Now more than ever he would have pushed microOLED onto phones, iPads and Displays while bringing the AR product along, but only release it after several more revisions of that product to be less intrusive on the face.
The entire demo was horrifyingly bad. That is something they would have only shown after the Player One heads up display was no longer a Ski Mask but a slimmed down pair of shades that had a solid state integrated battery power source.
This is a product 5-7 years too early for mass production.
What kind of timeline are we talking? Five years, yeah 30% sounds likely. Ten years, fifteen years?
Fifteen years ago I could not envision a world where people did not own or had not even touched in years a desktop or laptop computer. Now that almost sounds like an old fashioned sentence.
When / if they ever do get it down to glasses I can see it not entirely replacing a phone but becoming the main device.
Yeah I see what you mean but they still didn’t show Beat Saber or any games really. It’s basically an iPhone like the EyePhone in Futurama. Shockingly so, now that I think about it.
But the only real VR is the pre-set immersive environments. I think they did the right thing by not showing games at all. Meta is running a campaign right now trying to convince people you can use it for more than games. Apple just straight up, in perfect Apple style, glossed over the entire issue and made you want to use it for everything.
Other than games I can’t think of any other good, interesting VR except the immersive environments they showed.
Honestly at this point that is more interesting than VR. All they have to do now is refine the motion sensing and get some games ported. They started with the hardest nut to crack and I think they nailed it.
I’m super excited.
1. It isn’t ugly. I think it looks great.I think your original assessment was correct. It is a VR device - and an AR device. As such, it has all the downside of a VR device: it's ugly and bulky. If you don't mind being seen wearing this thing, I think you're in a very small, super-dorky minority. Sure, it might be useful to use as an external display - when you're sitting alone in a hotel room while traveling
If this version was solely geared towards developers, why would developers buy it and write applications for it? Developers write apps in order to sell them and make money - how would they make money if nobody else has a Vision Pro??? Are they supposed to write these apps in the hope that some day there will be a mass market? Can they afford to wait 3-5 years until Apple has miniaturized it enough so people are willing to buy it - provided the price also comes down to iPhone levels? It's a chicken and egg problem. And Apple - by releasing this ugly thing - hasn't created a market that developers would be willing to write apps for.
2. The fact that this was built to be an AR device first alleviates the problem that the wearer is disconnected from the environment. For example, using the dial button to adjust how much VR you want looked completely magical.
3. I can see myself wearing this to work even when I’m not traveling. Unlimited screen real estate for my work.
4. I assume that as a family, each person will wear one and the movie is synced between them. Not a bad experience.
I think Apple should have just used a d$mn iPhone to do all the processing - no idea what they were thinking trying to put everything into the headset and then force people to run around with a tether and battery in their pocket. Just so inelegant - completely un-Apple-like. I hate to use this trope: but this tether/battery thing - and these oversized, ugly goggles would have never made it past Steve Jobs. I'm 100% sure of that.
If you had an Iphone connected to it why couldn't the Vision Pro be used for calls too?
Apple EyePhone?
Apple EyePhone?
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The fact that Apple paid so much attention to make the wearer not look and feel disconnected to the environment is what is the most impressive.
I for one feel like a sigh of relief. The pressure is off, in a way. Here it is, let’s see where it goes.
Interestingly Apple stock closed down slightly (market was down overall) but Disney closed up, which is interesting.
Seems the market is cautiously optimistic and thinks Disney is smart for jumping on the opportunity.
Starting to think I should have bought a lot more of both during their lows.
Not sure where else to express these pressing thoughts, so enjoy.
Interestingly Apple stock closed down slightly (market was down overall) but Disney closed up, which is interesting.
Seems the market is cautiously optimistic and thinks Disney is smart for jumping on the opportunity.
Starting to think I should have bought a lot more of both during their lows.
Not sure where else to express these pressing thoughts, so enjoy.