See your living room with new paint and placed furniture before you do anything. On demand assembly instructions for ikea furniture. Change the plumbing under your sink with guided ar / ai help. Exercise where you never have to look away from the screen to miss steps, home theatre on your face, gaming, virtual meet ups with other people that are interactive and not looking at a video chat… facetime on steroids… i could keep going. You just lack imagination
I can do half of those with AR on a phone or a VR headset right now. I don’t consider any of them to be a killer feature that’s worth the discomfort of strapping a multi-thousand dollar computer to my face. Tech demo gimmicks aren’t killer features.
Having night vision is a pretty awesome use case. The occulus quest 2 already has a **** version of it
It might be fun, but you’re not going to get millions of people buying these for night vision.
Maybe Apple can use it to guide their customers through self repairing their devices so they don’t have to go to the Apple store anymore.
All outstanding ideas. I'd also like to do my own knee surgery. Kidding of course. Maybe not. I'm a tinkerer.
I also see loads of commercial applications. And loads of AR apps addressing those coming out via developers (using Apple's ARKit).
I agree, but I'm also still wondering what the killer feature of an Apple Watch is, and yet they sell in droves, so who knows.
It’s definitely the fitness aspect. The watch does a lot but it’s a great workout tracking and audio companion. The rings system is also a surprisingly good motivator.
1. Traditional computer gaming: obvious
Apple fans are some of the more affluent folks using computing devices today. Apple never has to aim to win the entire market, just win several million folks that have money to spend. They’re able to keep macOS going with less than 50 million macs a year sold, FAR short of the entire computer market.
I’d imagine that there’d be two glasses sitting in a row: Corrective glasses and then AR screen. An iPhone screen is already multilayered, so shouldn’t be rocket-science. Guess Apple could collaborate with opticians for non-standard correctives (e.g. deviating cylinder etc.).
Gaming is by far the most likely use I can see to take this sort of thing mainstream, but it also feels like a very un-Apple product. They'd have to seriously work on game dev relations to get some good titles in there.
I've seen people raving about how good Supernatural is for fitness on the Quest, so this is a possibility. I think they'd have to put a lot of effort into mitigating sweat with a device this expensive, and it would have to be super-duper light. The control system would also be a big question (both for this and gaming).
This still feels pretty niche. While I don't doubt it could be a great experience, it also makes watching a movie a very lonely, singular experience, and at the price they're rumoured to be charging I have to wonder who wouldn't rather just get a bigger TV or better speakers instead.
I think rather than a virtual multi-monitor setup, it would be an awesome tool for 3D artists (VFX work, game artists, etc). I just have to wonder how big of an audience that really is. But then again, they do sell a stupidly expensive monitor, so maybe I'm underestimating how niche they're willing to go.
I'm really curious to know more about the virtual theatre experience. Is there a website or something that you could link me to? Or was it something more hacked together?
Thanks, although I don't quite get the logic in linking me to the post directly above yours that was already quoting me.
