The MacRumors Show: Giving Vision Pro Another Chance

[lilkwarrior]

I don’t really care what they do, my original comment was that all they did was update tech specs and that addresses none of the issues it had. Processing power wasn’t holding it back, everything else was.

That's simply not true. Before the M5, the vision Pro didn't support AV1 decoding, fully support mirror pro motion Macs, ray-tracing, mesh shading, and couldn't run all modern iPad apps.

You also cannot dismiss howbkuch faster core tasks are with single core, multi-core, and dedicated AI processing three generations fasster than before

 

[lusty]

That's simply not true. Before the M5, the vision Pro didn't support AV1 decoding, fully support mirror pro motion Macs, ray-tracing, mesh shading, and couldn't run all modern iPad apps.

You also cannot dismiss howbkuch faster core tasks are with single core, multi-core, and dedicated AI processing three generations fasster than before

Ah so being slightly faster fixes everything. Sure, thanks. You seem obsessed with the spec sheet, try using devices for a while.

 

[lilkwarrior]

Ah so being slightly faster fixes everything. Sure, thanks. You seem obsessed with the spec sheet, try using devices for a while.

All of those things make the device functionally better for productive computing being an everyday user.

These were common core nitpicks with the original for prosumer.

It’s changes well beyond being slightly faster which you probably know very little about not using either Vision Pro regularly if you believe that—since when three generations of APU performance upgrades made things slightly faster for a prosumer device?

That's the conventional period of time to upgrade for productive computer users.

You just might not be the target auduence which is okay.

 

[lusty]

All of those things make the device functionally better for productive computing being an everyday user.

Everything mentioned just makes it more capable from a compute perspective. If users don’t want to use the device that changes nothing as compute was never the thing holding them back. Until Apple work that out it’s a dead duck.

 

[lilkwarrior]

Everything mentioned just makes it more capable from a compute perspective. If users don’t want to use the device that changes nothing as compute was never the thing holding them back. Until Apple work that out it’s a dead duck.

That's a personal probkem—especially on a prosumer stand-alone headset that is the most capable and versatile one in the market today.

I suggest reading articles like the following by people who actually buy prosumer headsets without necessarily dismissing your concern (at least I hope so vs you being invested or obsessed for something to fail just because you don't find it useful for your needs):

Who is buying VR and XR headsets anyway?

Who are the people shelling out thousands for such a niche gadget?

www.theverge.com

Personally I would say let the market play itself out and focus on products that meets your needs than proclaim or care how the product performs at a macrolevel irrelevant for personal computing for an individual’s needs.

The Vision Pro cannot scale to be a mainstream product with its parts anyway being a precursor for mainstream spatial computing devices that actually can like glasses.

Not every good tech product needs to be for most peoe. The most ideal ones aren't and never will with the buying power of most: Desktops, prosumer CPUs, prosumer GPUs, prosumer monitors, mechanical keyboards, XLR mics, DSLRs, custom in-ear monitors, DACs, and so on

 

[H_D]

Got one on Saturday, with virtual display being the main motivation. Is this already a grown-up product? No, it’s more like the early iPhones or the very first iPads, all of which felt not-quite-there-yet.

What it needs is faster WiFi, 5 or 6k, a wider FOV, less weight and especially a working TB-connection to your Mac for completely lagless work, data transfer and power. The rest is app development, which with the iPhone really started with v4. Also, as long as VisionOS is based on iPadOS, it will have some of the same troubles.

I think MetaRayBan is a completely different usecase, and even more overpriced for what it actually brings to the table. I hope Apple keeps upright the AVP and doesn’t put it in the same limbo as the HomePods or AirPods Max.