Apple's thrust will be AR, not VR. There are far more applications both commercial/business and personal for AR. Though VR for games, etc. will come along for the ride.
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Meta Debuts $1500 'Quest Pro' Mixed Reality Headset Ahead of Apple's 2023 AR/VR Device
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Apple's thrust will be AR, not VR. There are far more applications both commercial/business and personal for AR. Though VR for games, etc. will come along for the ride.
Literally the last thing people want to do for work, communicating and meetings is stick a helmet on.
Because you can do all those things better without it.
And who the **** wants to be in a meeting anyway? No matter how amazing your company and teams are, everyone wants to leave the meeting ASAP.
Meanwhile, iCloud+ which has great privacy features is a paid-for add-on.Apple: Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s also one of our core values.
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Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, are designed to protect your privacy, because privacy is a fundamental human right.www.apple.com
Comical when they announced that and the fact that it costs money.
Zuckerberg is a grade-A scumbag and there's nothing his desperately rebranded toxic company could make that I'd even consider ever using.
You can do more than hope. Maturity is achieved THROUGH infancy. You can't jump to the end goal without growing up.
I'm not a fan of Facebook of old, but I think this new Meta business and their product design is a major step forward. I think they're doing some amazing work, and I applaud them. Apple has been upstaged, but who knows what Apple's headset will bring to the table.
Yes, here’s a favorite AR feature for you in the future:
When you’re passing that McDonald’s on your way to work, you’ll see an AR sign above it displaying a high-resolution, delicious breakfast sandwich; just $2.99 the sign says.
When you make something the core value of your company, then you violate that core value, it destroys your company. Meta makes their money selling your data. Apple makes their money selling you products and services. If they ever get caught violating people's privacy, it will largely be the end of their company. Why would they risk that? (They are very explicit about how they collect data and how they use it. Is it perfect protection? No. It is very good.)
You haven't even touched on the bigger news:
Microsoft and Meta are partnering. Microsoft Office is coming to VR on Quest, and Quest is getting integration with Microsoft Azure and Active Directory. Not only that but Xbox Cloud is also coming to Quest.
Microsoft and Meta are partnering. Microsoft Office is coming to VR on Quest, and Quest is getting integration with Microsoft Azure and Active Directory. Not only that but Xbox Cloud is also coming to Quest.
At least these marketing images aren't full of faces with gaping mouths ready for bugs to land inside
I don't see Apple being upstaged at all as it's not focused on VR, as Meta is. AR reaches greater and far different markets, across many disciplines, than VR.
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Their function is to sell you a product that violates your privacy while it shows you advertisements. They are getting you to pay money to sell your data while they show you commercials.
All I know is that I trust Apple 10 times more than Meta. Apple has built their entire business model on protecting your privacy. I doubt they want to throw that away by doing something that destroys your trust.
1.3x larger color gamut than Quest 2
1.37x ppi of Quest 2
Still "VR LCD" technology
And they call this pro? The Quest 2 was horrible. A 30% improvement in the display isn't going to cut it. Feels like going from 480p-like quality to 560p-like quality while we should at least quadruple it.
1.37x ppi of Quest 2
Still "VR LCD" technology
And they call this pro? The Quest 2 was horrible. A 30% improvement in the display isn't going to cut it. Feels like going from 480p-like quality to 560p-like quality while we should at least quadruple it.
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I mean I don't know for certain, but privacy is a core philosophy of their brand and if it is discovered not to be true, the brand can suffer irreversible damage leading to catastrophic depreciation of its stock. Why would Apple self-sabotage?
I started working out quite a bit more. I started eating quite a bit more. I lost weight and gained muscle mass. To each their own.
It’s cool to imagine what potential hardware Apple has up its sleeve. But let’s be honest here. Meta has built an impressive offering, and is building partnerships with companies like Microsoft to build the future of enterprise/office work.
Perhaps Apple has built such a device, perhaps they have partnerships that they are leveraging, but history tells me that Apple’s device is going to be locked up tight, and not build towards what Meta is purposing here.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate Apple, and I don’t love Meta. I think from purely a technology view, what Meta is purposing for the future, is absolutely the way it’s going to go. It’s almost inevitable. But the question is, are we going to approach this the way I believe Meta has and say have at it, or are we going to approach it the Apple way and say this is the way it is, suck it up buttercup.
I don’t think that for the metaverse to work the way that fiction has portrayed it(and how most people envision it), Apple’s past playbook is the best course of action. Perhaps I will be wrong if and when such a device comes from Cupertino. At this point, Meta is absolutely driving this industry, and it’s impressive to see the scope that they are thinking.
There are several breakout features on the Quest Pro, smaller size, pancake lenses, full-color pass through, lighter, the controllers are more intelligent, better processor, facial expression tracking, etc. Admittedly it’s not a fair comparison as the tech on smartphones in general has been fairly stale, but the big announcement for iPhone 14? They moved the notch down on the Pro, and integrated it into the software.
This is a major step forward for the industry as a whole, and while Apple may have something up its sleeve, it’s not clear what their vision of this future looks like. So, I can’t speak to any hypothetical launches of their products. Yes privacy is important to them, once they get caught (looking at you Siri recordings), but I think it’s important to note that other companies also can do things well.
How come the Meta avatar designs look years behind even something like Second Life? How can that be "the next big thing"?
With AR/VR, sometimes it's more about refresh rate than resolution.