If you watch a movie or TV show on a Vision Pro, can you still do something else at the same time? Isn't the idea that the movie fills your whole field of view? I watch about one movie per day plus one or two TV shows and sometimes even more. That is only possible if I can work on my notebook at the same time. I can use a few hours per day for watching movies and TV shows without doing anything else.
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Over 150 3D Movies and Spatial Games Coming to Apple Vision Pro
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If Netflix comes to the Vision Pro and Sony content is viewable in 3D on there (since Sony is all over Netflix), I’d hope Sony’s PSVR2 adopts 3D movie playback too. I’m hoping Vision Pro’s push for 3D, pushes others to bring 3D back. Fingers crossed.
Agreed, and I think if Apple want to engage as many 3D fans’ interest in the Vision Pro as possible they would be wise to enable 3D movies to play back on Projectors and 3D TVs too. If they get the small but ardent army of 3D fans on board as champions of the Vision Pro, it could help the product’s chances. Make the 3D content exclusive for no good technical reason and it’s a little off-putting.
Sony’s lack of 3D support for the PSVR2 thus far is very foolish IMHO.
Give a chance to VR? I remember that VR was going to be the 'next big thing' when I was doing my Masters degree in computer graphics. That was in the early 90's.
Apple's technology is incredibly impressive, but I still can't figure out what the target market for this is.
For example, Apple are touting a a golf game? That sums up everything that's wrong with VR. If you're that interested in golf, then join a golf club, get some exercise and meet people, rather than sitting on your couch all alone with a VR headset on.
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Not very long ones, if any, as appointments are required. Given the time to do a proper fitting likely very limited in numbers.
As above.
Hopefully movies which you already have in your library will be available in 3D. I already have several of the titles in the post above.
Absolutely. My home theater has much better picture and sound than offered by even Dolby Cinemas.
With local golf teeing rates ranging from ~$100 to many times that, not including membership fees, for some people it is more affordable over the long run. For those with disabilities allows one to experience things which they could physically never do.
I don't buy that first argument. If someone likes golf and can afford this headset, then they're likely to want to play golf for real.
But I absolutely agree with you that this could be of massive benefit to people with disabilities, allowing them to greatly expand their world.
I also think that if any company can make this a success then it's Apple, given their track record.
I’m really keen to try this out and see what it can do, but I remain unconvinced that VR/AR will ever become widely adopted consumer tech. The simple reason that nobody will want to wear a headset for a prolonged period of time, and it is far less convenient to pick up and use than every other screen device.
Hence you’ll need a really compelling reason to want to use it regularly, but beyond being an interesting tech experience there isn’t really anything that the mass market would choose to do with it that they can’t do easier elsewhere. It’s a cool novelty toy looking for a use case.
Hence you’ll need a really compelling reason to want to use it regularly, but beyond being an interesting tech experience there isn’t really anything that the mass market would choose to do with it that they can’t do easier elsewhere. It’s a cool novelty toy looking for a use case.
You're suggesting that people shell out $$$ to join a golf club, spend even more money buying/hiring golf clubs, spend however long in the car actually driving to the golf club each time, and then be committed to several hours out on the course to make it worth the money? And even then they can only play during the day time, when they're not at work, and when the weather isn't ****.
Some people just want to play a silly game of golf for fifteen minutes while they wait for dinner or whatever.
Oh I would love to play golf again, and go mountain biking, or even just walk! I cant I'm in an electric wheelchair and pretty much housebound, some people really don't see past the end of their nose when it comes to seeing the potential in devices unless it's just for themselves.
My most played video game is a car racing game. Should I buy a car, find the nearest race track, pay whatever fees it cost to use the track, pay to maintain my vehicle?
What the Golf? isn't a golf simulation, and the racing game I play isn't a driving simulation, so even if I were to do either of those things in real life, it wouldn't match the game.
Hundreds of millions of people play video games on other computers. How does VR stand out as "what's wrong" ?.
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What the Golf? isn't a golfing game. It's a humorous physics game that has a golf theme.
Agree with this-
Phones and then smart phones and even tablets replicated an age-old paradigm - a book.
Clay tablets go back to 4,000 BC. Culturally the idea of picking something up and reading it goes deep into all human cultures. Picking up your phone to read something is such a clear extension of this.
Nothing about strapping a weight to your head feels natural. It's awkward and annoying. You get light pollution even with the ‘perfect’ seal.
There's a reason why even 3D TV's where you can wear lightweight glasses aren't popular. It's just fiddly.
All that said, if anyone can make a success of this niche technology, it's Apple. I'm sure they'll have records like the most profitable VR/AR headset, maybe even the most popular 'of its power' by units sold. They'll do well enough.
It'll tick along a number of generations, a bit like Apple Watch.
But this is definitely still a toy; at best an experiment.
For serious work you want to look at an external screen.
For great games you wouldn't even bother with any of Apple's platforms.
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So I have a sizeable iTunes collection, and I remember reading a little while ago some devices are already showing the 3D icon under these films, will we get free upgrades for the movies we already own, and if so where can I see this icon?
I wonder if this means those movies will work with 3D TV’s as well?
I wonder if this means those movies will work with 3D TV’s as well?
The first iPhone was amazing. Capacitive vs resistive touch screen, multitouch. Gamechanger.
If it does it’ll be interesting to see how well it does, personally I place all this 3D video stuff up there with 3D TV’s, it’ll fail as the public shows no interest and doesn’t pick up the tech. But we shall see.
So they hype it all up in the video only to end it with a home screen that just reminds you of your iPhone's home screen that you look at 20 times a day esp when avoiding others.
I wonder if 3D would have hung on longer if it had come during the streaming era.
Yeah, most TV's supported 3D for a few years, but you also had to get a special blu-ray player that was compatible with 3D versions of movies. Cable or broadcast service barely had any 3D content. How many people with 3D-compatible TVs ever watched any 3D content?
Netflix only ever had 18 pieces of 3D streaming content, and I've only heard of one of them (Beowulf).
I wish Blockbuster was still in business. Remember when you could rent consoles? Maybe we could have rented one of these and watched a few flicks on it....