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Samsung to Unveil Apple Vision Pro Competitor Tomorrow
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Personally, I have zero interest in VR or AR. The headsets are huge, heavy, and uncomfortable, plus they can cause motion sickness. The novelty wears off after 20–30 minutes. It’s just not practical, and the tech still feels pretty half-baked to me.
Nothing could do more to keep Apple Vision alive than recognizing it as being worth competing with.
I don't think the Apple device is an overall success, so perhaps the Android side can make a case to drive more uses and such.
That said, I have no interest in something like this, need something like my regular glasses / sun glasses with ability to give small details on things I am looking at, or show me directions. I don't really want a massive tanning mask.
That said, I have no interest in something like this, need something like my regular glasses / sun glasses with ability to give small details on things I am looking at, or show me directions. I don't really want a massive tanning mask.
It's fun. No other reason needed.
I've spent quite a lot of time exploring in Google Earth VR.
They could even combine it with photos, so you could see where photos were taken.
And does nobody use maps when they aren't driving, to plan out a route?
It was DOA because of its price point not its design or function. Most consumers can’t shell out $4000 for this type item, but most would if they were $1000…
Ummmm what? What is the obvious use case here with a device that you wear over your eyes? you aren't going to drive with one on. or walk with it. Maps has to be the least interesting thing I could do with my AVP, unless it is as a self guided walking tour from the comfort of my home. Which maps is not.
Have you even tried an AVP?
rarely, and its to figure out timing issues. I dont need a native AVP app for that. The IOS version works fine.
do you own an AVP?
Same. I expect Virtual Desktop will be available as for Play For Dream.
Google Earth, yes. I can see the case for that. Maps... not so much. I use maps when not driving to look up locations and routes but it is usually a quick thing. Now if Apple were to add photo and VR features to Maps, that would make it a priority for me.
Really?
Apple sold around 400,000 AVPs. Which yielded around $1.4 Billion in additional revenue for Apple.
More useful? With whatever pathetic processor they decide to use? With Android developers too lazy to target anything other than phones (they can’t even bother to develop for tablets and people think they’ll target a device with a fraction of the market)?
The AVP is the first headset that didn't make me want to immediately puke. When I switched to a 3rd party headband that properly supported the front and back the weight issue and comfort all were fixed. That said I returned it before the 30 day period because I just wanted the display slightly sharper especially for passthrough.
That being said I preordered the M5 due to the 10% pixel pushing and 120hz display. Give it a try at the apple store and ask to see the virtual display. For me the AVP is the best productivity and entertainment device on the market, by far. I can work on a beautiful beach or next to a mountain and completely eliminate visual distractions.
Better specs. Laughable. First neither Samsung or Qualcomm have a processor that can touch Apple. That’s before you add in a dedicated co-processor like Apple does with the R1.
It takes power to process multiple camera inputs and it takes a lot of power to drive high resulting displays at a high refresh rate.
Snapdragon Elite is too power hungry for a mobile device and gets slaughtered in GPU performance by Apple.
It should be noted they only made around 400k units in the first place. Apple had no intention of this being a mass market product. I look at the AVP as I do the high end mac studio or mac pro. For those that want the best experience or need a serious productivity device you use the AVP. If you want games get a cheaper Quest
As a former android developer, I wouldnt even say its laziness, Google’s developer tools are really garbage. And the play store console is horrible and Google can sometimes take MONTHS to approve an app update. Android lost like 1-2 million apps this last year because of how bad the play console has been lately and developers are giving up.
I began developing Apple apps and its a billion times better, to the extent that I no longer support Android for our platform.
Sounds about right, might be $1,999
I'm also interested to see if it has a wider fov than the AVP...
Nah, Samsung is not going to leave that much money on the table. $2999 is more likely
As an AVP owner, that processor isnt going to be $2,000 better, I mean $1,600. Lol. Let's see how the benchmarks are tomorrow.