Just because Apple didn't show multi-users in the demo, doesn't mean they don't plan to

[senttoschool]

I'm hearing a lot of concerns about how this will only be a single user experience, and that it will just make society's loneliness issue even worse.

The simple truth is that it probably just wasn't ready to be shown. They announced it 6+ months before shipping. It clearly signals that even the basics are barely working. The engineers are still just duct-taping everything together for WWDC.

You think Apple wants this to be a 100% single-user experience? Are you kidding me? No. Apple wants to sell as many as possible. They want to sell you 5 Vision Pros if your family size is 5.

It's quite trivial to imagine how Apple might incorporate multi-user experiences:

• Watch the same movie together
• Explore world museums together
• Explore different tourist areas together
• When you want to talk to the person next to you, the person will be in view even if you're fully immersed. This means you can still see the shock on your kid's face when the dinosaur walks into the living room. And your kid can see your face too. Apple has already demonstrated this
• Easily share the screen you're seeing such as the web page you're on with the person next to you

 

[Julien]

Who said there wouldn't be? Anyway that is just software Apps and even if Apple DOSEN'T make any multi-user Apps that won't stop 3ed parties from doing it. In 5 years you can be farting in other peoples face's (the new fart apps) 💩. At least there is no smell-a-vision.

EDIT: Didn't Apple demo some multiplayer gaming?
Also FaceTime is multiuser since you can't FaceTime by yourself .

 

[Ctrlos]

Who said there wouldn't be? Anyway that is just software Apps and even if Apple DOSEN'T make any multi-user Apps that won't stop 3ed parties from doing it. In 5 years you can be farting in other peoples face's (the new fart apps) 💩. At least there is no smell-a-vision.

EDIT: Didn't Apple demo some multiplayer gaming?
Also FaceTime is multiuser since you can't FaceTime by yourself .

Ironic given even Apple ordered all their employees back to the office

 

[Ctrlos]

I'm hearing a lot of concerns about how this will only be a single user experience, and that it will just make society's loneliness issue even worse.

The simple truth is that it probably just wasn't ready to be shown. They announced it 6+ months before shipping. It clearly signals that even the basics are barely working. The engineers are still just duct-taping everything together for WWDC.

You think Apple wants this to be a 100% single-user experience? Are you kidding me? No. Apple wants to sell as many as possible. They want to sell you 5 Vision Pros if your family size is 5.

It's quite trivial to imagine how Apple might incorporate multi-user experiences:

• Watch the same movie together
• Explore world museums together
• Explore different tourist areas together
• When you want to talk to the person next to you, the person will be in view even if you're fully immersed. This means you can still see the shock on your kid's face when the dinosaur walks into the living room. And your kid can see your face too. Apple has already demonstrated this
• Easily share the screen you're seeing such as the web page you're on with the person next to you

For the cost of several headsets, even a few years down the line you'd be able to afford plenty of flights for the whole family to experience all that stuff in real life and have enough spare change to buy a TV.