I share your opinion on this topic. For this thing, too many of us Apple people seemed to have lost the ability to "think different." It takes only a little imagination to come up with a plethora of uses of this product. For example, this is another kind of cut at the same sort of thing "fold" and "roll"able screen devices are trying to deliver: mobile screens bigger than a brick in your pocket or screen in a bag... this one with no crease, no hinges, no scroll mechanisms.
If you ever wish for a screen bigger than the mobile one with you (iPhone, iPad, MB), this could deliver that out of the same bag... and delivery could be ANY size screen... not just a single size or only a little bigger screen... WITHOUT the scaling up of weight as you choose your bigger screen(s) size.
To your last point, this whole crowd DID passionately ridicule phablet-sized phones for YEARS before Apple went there: "one handed use", "pants with bigger pockets", man purses, developer fragmentation, et all. The word "abominations" was commonly slung. Then Apple rolled out iPhone Phablets and it's as if no one ever had such opinions... and later some of the same people were then ridiculing those who dared to call for smaller screen version of iPhones... and that continues right up to now.
When imaginations shrink too small, progress is hard to picture, feared and/or outright resisted. But soon this will go from imagination vapor to tangible reality. And I suspect much like the "abominations" of phablets, there will be a mass shift in opinion once what Vpro can do is fully revealed and able to be demoed in stores for the doubters.
Maybe if we can adopt some bigger man purses or pants with even bigger pockets, we can find a way to appreciate this entirely new thing from Apple once it can actually be experienced first hand?
If you believe in the company just keep buying when you have spare cash. I saw my first iPod ad years ago and bought. Was a really good idea. 😁
The problem is its way in the future. At the moment, the components are too expensive, the headset still too large and the processors are not there to power these hungry devices.
I care inasmuch as a smaller, slimmer, lighter device makes it more comfortable to use, and that overlaps somewhat with what makes the device look nicer when worn on a face.
I am not quite sure I understand your point. In 1984 that $2500 is approximately $7300 today. In keeping with the technology advancement, the Apple Vision Pro costs one half as much. The 1984 Macintosh was a consumer revolution in computing, just as is the Apple Vision Pro today. By the end of the year 2024 it will be rare NOT to see them in use on airplanes. I know I will be using mine while on the plane. I recently was in a hospital maternity waiting area where there was excited discussion between three people about getting the iPhone 15 Pro so they could take AVP ready 3D videos. Demand is going to far outstrip supply.The first 128K Mac was $2499. The Mac II was $5500. Even if you try to argue using an inflation calculator, the technology back then was so grossly inferior to present technology so today's Mac's are way better buy for the buck. In a 1984 mind set the Vision Pro prototype is lightyears advance then many profession workstations that were huge in comparison. Look at an older multi processor CCA Silicon Image workstation setup as a example.
I doubt this very much. The number of these even being made (even if the rumours are off by an order of magnitude) means it's going to be rare to see them anywhere.
Especially since people will use them as individuals in their house. I’ve actually never seen any VR or AR goggles even though I’m very geeky.
correction: Vision Pro rumors are working to be le epic fail.
If technology advances significantly so that equivalent computer performance is 10000% more capable then the 1984 or 1987 examples how can one say trivially that computers back then were worth today's $7300? If you took 20 Mac II's and ran them in parallel do you really think they have a fighting chance at besting the performance of a Studio Mac M2 Max? I don't. Thats why we can't simply use inflation calculators to compare purchasing products from different eras with vastly different technology performance.
My biggest disappointment with the AVP event was the lack of anything beyond floating windows.
Did you actually believe that Apple thought a $3500 product would be bought in the same volumes as the iPhone or iPad.
