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Meta Expands VR Operating System to Third-Party Hardware Makers
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Whatever Meta aspires to be, right now the Quest is a gaming console. And the Vision Pro is a device for running iPad apps.
Surgeons and engineers are better off with a headset connected to a PC.
That picture is so frustrating! Yesterday a young women got out of her car in parking lot so I stopped to allow her to cross traffic into the market. But instead she stopped walking with her head was down in her phone. Actually, she never even looked up from her phone after exiting her car. So I started to inch forward to go around her and she started walking again with her head still in her phone. I stopped once more and she noticed me. So I motioned for her to go ahead and she flipped me the stink eye. I was being polite, I swear it.
At some point when the tech is cheap enough Nintendo will make a ViiR with Z3lDa and Super mARio, after suing Meta because their avatars look like Miis.
Apple vs the rest of the world.
Always has been, always will be.
Bring it on, I say. 😈
Always has been, always will be.
Bring it on, I say. 😈
What stops your big genius to make a life like app meeting and publish on the Meta Store?
Yes, just like All of Apple's OSes (IOS, MacOS, ...) are "just a layer over BSD UNIX."
Android is Google's version of Linux and Linux is a rewrite (full-on clone) of BSD UNIX.
We can trace it all back to about 1970 when the first UNIX was born. It is all just "layers" after that. (Some layers are quite thick.)
an even better reason to spend $500 instead of $3500.
recession happens. forget it. Apple lost
recession happens. forget it. Apple lost
Kind of like saying macOS is just a layer on top of BSD.
Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
It’s like PC versus the Mac all over again.
www.theverge.com
I guess he can dream.
While Apple will close all the doors to others but use the front door to gather all the user data and deny it to others in the name of privacy.
Did Apple’s privacy feature help to drive its own ad business?
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
Several countries are suing Apple for the double standards.
The AVP does more than just let you run iPad apps. The majority of the apps I use frequently are native apps but even for apps that are iPad compatible being able to open multiple apps and position them where ever I want to in the 3D space around me, including in another room, is super cool and lets me be more productive than I can be on just an iPad by itself.
Being able to control an advanced user interface just by looking at it and pressing your finger and thumb together is like nothing else I’ve ever used. I rarely ever use my iPad since I brought home the AVP so yes, it does let you run iPad apps, but you can run them in a way you simply can’t on the iPad itself, the number of native apps is growing and that will only improve when they finally start selling it in markets outside the USA and when it comes to media consumption there’s absolutely nothing like it that I’ve seen outside of seeing a movie in IMAX with the upside of being able to do it from my couch without anyone else in an actual IMAX theater being obnoxious.
... and Microsoft is very late in the game. Windows Mobile (Pocket PC) lost to Android because Microsoft couldn't get its act together in mobile. Now Microsoft is late in VR/AR.
Just like visionOS is a layer on top of iOS/iPadOS... and macOS is a layer on Darwin....
Yes, I was being a bit reductive and glib. When I say iPad apps, I mean more that they are iPad-class apps. For the most part they have the same limitations as iPad apps, and it looks like very few of them take advantage of the unique abilities afforded by VR.
I think the spatial computing aspect of it super cool! I like the idea of being able to freely place windows. But the mobile-class OS means I couldn't do my day job in it. I use Excel a lot, and there's a version of Excel on the Vision Pro, but it isn't fully featured with macros and scripts. I need a desktop file system. I need to use Python scripts I have written.
For professional use cases where the 3D aspect is important, such as architectural or automotive visualization, a VR headset connected to a high-powered GPU will almost always be a better option.
Meta VR is:
Like having a sex pest or child abuser right there in the room with you.
Like having a pig butchering scam sitting right next to you.
Like Facebook Markets scams but in 3D.
No doubt Suckerberg will tell investors all the accounts are real when they are actually mostly Llama powered.
Like having a sex pest or child abuser right there in the room with you.
Like having a pig butchering scam sitting right next to you.
Like Facebook Markets scams but in 3D.
No doubt Suckerberg will tell investors all the accounts are real when they are actually mostly Llama powered.
Yeah all the architectural wonders of the world would not have been possible without wearing a VR helmet.
And all the literature classics would not have been possible without ChatGPT spitting out text.
Humans are completely useless and unskilled without the latest gizmo.
Gizmo fanboys are experts in all things.
What is more realistic, selling a personal device for gaming or getting 80% of companies on windows (just throwing out a number here) to approve your request to buy a nearly 4K headset where they don’t even know what you are doing.
By the way this 500$ device lets me multiscreen like 5 at a time, AVP meanwhile … 1
So.
I built an i9/4090 PC to complement my Mac Ultra Studio M2. I use it for gaming and also video/photo editing when I don't feel like using Final Cut.
My main games are COD, DCS, and MSFS. If you game these are well known.
I ended up buying a Quest 3 mainly for VR flying through the PC. Having used it for about 40 hours of flight now, it is pretty much a close 2nd or 3rd behind some other well known VR headsets as far as graphics and functionality. You do have to do some system tweaking and software edits to really max out the visuals, but once you do pointing your head 90 degrees to the left over your shoulder to complete a high G turn in an F22 Raptor and see your turning radius happen fluidly will have you hooked. A LOT of ex-military aviators have built out rigs to replicate their cockpits from real life. That's the "gaming" angle.
There is software called Virtual Desktop that will mimic your PC onto a screen that can be blown up to IMAX theater size, or what would seem to be a 22" monitor. What's great is you can use your Oculus controllers to do most anything or you can use your mouse/keyboard combo concurrently. The VR controllers actually work a little faster than the mouse as you are guiding a light beam over the screen and use the VR triggers like a mouse button. So with a little practice, you could actually increase productivity in a lot of scenarios.
To say the Oculus/Quest3 system is just a gaming console is so far off base. It is a MUCH more functional system than it is given credit for.
At this point, and having been solely Apple based in computing since 2006, I don't wake my Mac Studio Ultra very often.
I built an i9/4090 PC to complement my Mac Ultra Studio M2. I use it for gaming and also video/photo editing when I don't feel like using Final Cut.
My main games are COD, DCS, and MSFS. If you game these are well known.
I ended up buying a Quest 3 mainly for VR flying through the PC. Having used it for about 40 hours of flight now, it is pretty much a close 2nd or 3rd behind some other well known VR headsets as far as graphics and functionality. You do have to do some system tweaking and software edits to really max out the visuals, but once you do pointing your head 90 degrees to the left over your shoulder to complete a high G turn in an F22 Raptor and see your turning radius happen fluidly will have you hooked. A LOT of ex-military aviators have built out rigs to replicate their cockpits from real life. That's the "gaming" angle.
There is software called Virtual Desktop that will mimic your PC onto a screen that can be blown up to IMAX theater size, or what would seem to be a 22" monitor. What's great is you can use your Oculus controllers to do most anything or you can use your mouse/keyboard combo concurrently. The VR controllers actually work a little faster than the mouse as you are guiding a light beam over the screen and use the VR triggers like a mouse button. So with a little practice, you could actually increase productivity in a lot of scenarios.
To say the Oculus/Quest3 system is just a gaming console is so far off base. It is a MUCH more functional system than it is given credit for.
At this point, and having been solely Apple based in computing since 2006, I don't wake my Mac Studio Ultra very often.
I hope this fails hard. Society doesn’t need more social disruption by soulless data leeches like Meta.