Just asking. Or is this just for lonely ones who watch movies by themselves?
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Possibly share play would be my guess. With that said, it’s a personal device. If I’m watching a movie with someone, it’s without the headset.
The same way two people share binoculars together, obviously...
Seriously though, it'd be sad if people are going to strap on headsets and disconnect from each other to watch a movie. Part of watching movies with someone else is the experience...to see their reactions and emotions. Can't do that with a headset strapped to your face.
Now if it was a remote/virtual watch party, then it would be cool to be in your own personal virtual movie theater. Maybe even see the faces you're watching with around you.
Seriously though, it'd be sad if people are going to strap on headsets and disconnect from each other to watch a movie. Part of watching movies with someone else is the experience...to see their reactions and emotions. Can't do that with a headset strapped to your face.
Now if it was a remote/virtual watch party, then it would be cool to be in your own personal virtual movie theater. Maybe even see the faces you're watching with around you.
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It's been fascinating to me to see how many people on MacRumors say they never watch a movie alone. I watch plenty of movies & tv shows with my family. But I also watch many by myself. Am I an outlier?
One of my best uses for the metaquest is watching with a buddy in a virtual bigscreen theater. Guess it won’t be a big deal as none of my friends can afford a AVP
They'll probably add a feature like that to the Apple ecosystem later; when the cheaper version meant for a general audience launches.
Possible solution (but expensive)
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10075/
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10075/
There's a lot going on with this whole "I'm basically saving money and have a huge theater" argument from people that plan to be early adopters. One, I assume most of them probably already have pretty nice TVs and/or computer monitors so that argument comes from a disingenuous place, two what I suspect they will actually do is use it in a similar way people use iPads and sidecar the difference is, as far as I know they can't actually use their computer screen when they do this so it kind of makes it pointless.
And to the guy that says "Do people not watch things alone?" sure they do! But this argument that it will replace a television or monitor, something that multiple people next to you can enjoy with you, is totally disingenuous.
The thing that will make this more social will actually depend on how well it works with Airplay and games. There is nothing better than watching someone doing stuff in a game in VR and either doing cool stuff, freaking out, or whatever and seeing what they see on the screen in front of you.
Apple in press demos have been very adamant to press the idea that this is not a device designed to isolate you, they're doing this because they know it will isolate you.
And to the guy that says "Do people not watch things alone?" sure they do! But this argument that it will replace a television or monitor, something that multiple people next to you can enjoy with you, is totally disingenuous.
The thing that will make this more social will actually depend on how well it works with Airplay and games. There is nothing better than watching someone doing stuff in a game in VR and either doing cool stuff, freaking out, or whatever and seeing what they see on the screen in front of you.
Apple in press demos have been very adamant to press the idea that this is not a device designed to isolate you, they're doing this because they know it will isolate you.
No, you are not. I also watch things by myself. My wife does as well. And then we watch things together. It's normal.
For some people it might though, like single-person households. And just because I don't have a bunch of people with me in my 200 sqft studio apartment all the time to watch movies, doesn't mean that I never interact with people, don't have a social life, don't watch things elsewhere with people together and so on.
“Who lives in a 200 sqft studio apartment and can afford the Apple Vision Pro“, I already hear. People in San Francisco for example. Or hundreds of other places in the world.
And by the way: I'm not an early adopter. I won't buy this Apple Vision Pro, because I don't see a $3,500+ use case for me.
Of course it will isolate you! All of this tech-enabled connectivity is a pale shadow of the real thing. This is why kids are all so mentally ill today. They have 5000 friends on social media apps but almost none of them are real friends. Everyone knows it and that's why there's such an emphasis on presenting a curated image. Friendship has become more performative than substantive in the social media era.
Tech companies can come up with all kinds of bizarre ways to "connect" us, but nothing beats real connection. Sitting at home alone with your VR helmet on, watching a movie with your friend sitting at his house wearing his VR helmet pales in comparison to meeting your friend for a bite to eat and then catching a movie in the same theater, talking and laughing together in person, reading body language cues, etc.
It's no wonder we're becoming more and more mentally ill these days. We've inserted technology into our social relationships in very bizarre and unhealthy ways.
It’s curious that Apple apparently doesn’t have an implementation of SharePlay for the AVP. That would make for great marketing, “watch with your friends/family in a big virtual theater”. With realtime audio of your friends and visuals that you see their “personae” in the seats at your side. It would potentially incite more people to buy an AVP if half of their friends have one and they can other only participate on their measly 
2D screen.
On the other hand, I have no idea how much SharePlay is actually used.
2D screen.On the other hand, I have no idea how much SharePlay is actually used.
I have little doubt that this and many other features will be developed over time.
And married people who don’t talk to each other
I've been wondering the same thing. If I want to watch in 3D (or from the surface of the moon), but we only have one AVP in the house, can we still sit beside each other to be able to talk while watching something?
My thought is Airplay is the answer, but if the audio we're hearing is all coming from the same source, hopefully there is no delay or a low enough delay to not be noticeable.
My thought is Airplay is the answer, but if the audio we're hearing is all coming from the same source, hopefully there is no delay or a low enough delay to not be noticeable.
Well, the iPad calculator app was never developed. I wouldn’t take anything as a given.
I’m single and live alone. I recently moved to a new apartment and bought a new TV. By that point I already knew I was going to get a Vision Pro so instead of buying a super high-end OLED TV for $thousands I bought a cheaper TV (still 4k though) for $hundreds.
I will watch movies one of two ways:
I will watch movies one of two ways:
- By myself with the Vision Pro.
- With a date on my TV. And if the date is going well, hopefully we’ll both be too distracted to care too much about what is going on in the movie and the picture quality of my budget TV 😉
And yet calculators exist on the iPad. In fact, Apple’s excuse for not creating a calculator app on the iPad is because they feel the existing ones are good enough.
So you’re not denying this feature will someday exist, but instead that Apple themselves will not be the ones to make it happen.
It’s entirely possible for people to use the “Watch Party” feature on the Amazon Prime Video app to accomplish something like this, but obviously it’ll be great for the apps to enhance the experience for VR.
Not quite: Steve Jobs didn't like the design they had, so they shipped the first iPad without one, and then it fell of the priority cliff: https://www.cultofmac.com/421893/why-the-ipad-has-never-shipped-with-a-calculator-app/
I'm saying that Apple does a poor job of realizing the potential of the AVP for this initial release, in ways that would seem obvious and good for marketing.