Vision Pro 2 Rumored to Have Two Key Advantages Over Current Model

[Unregistered 4U]

Perfect. Call it the Apple Mac Vision Pro.
Take the battery pack out.
Use a Thunderbolt 5 connection for tethering? Let the mac do the heavy computing/lifting?
No need for a heavy or power-hungry AVP. Price it at $2,499.

If they’re saying it’s for the “enterprise”, the price wouldn’t be going down.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Yes it should be used mainly seated however tethered with cable is a big pain (I cannot stand it when I tether with the quest 3 for example). Yes I can get realtime rendering through the cable and it is better however not a great experience especially if you need to stand. Hopefully wireless speeds can improve rather than cable but I understand the reasons.

With the way technology is going, more and more performant tech is likely just going to be in the device. Imagine if, when considering making more powerful phones, the industry was focused on a battery and compute pack that one had to tether to a screen instead of just making more performant/efficient devices?

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Doesn’t plugging into a Mac defeat the whole point of the device?

Kinda, which is why it seems like a “leak” designed to flush out leakers more than something Apple’s working on. If it’s the former, we either won’t hear anything else about it OR “Apple wasn’t able to make it work like they wanted so they shelved the project”. It’s not like Apple’s going to say “NUH-UH!” so it’s a good gig if you can get it!

 

[lilkwarrior]

Ditch the outer display and just have a lighter aluminium shell, the face mimicking thing is a bit uncanny valley creepy and probably not really necessary given you can just take the thing off to talk to someone!

A version that's basically just a display that tethers to a mac so you can enjoy spatial content would definitely be more interesting to me. That's also the only way I can see them getting this down to 'mainstream' pricing territory.

…Mainstream pricing is not the priority of any of Apple’s prosumer class hardware.

That is also not feasible for a good spatial computing hardware that is supposed to be more expensive fundamentally than traditional computing—especially the mainstream pricing of such traditional computing hardware in which the screen complexity of spatial computing alone does not allow.

Apple supply chain for their prosumer hardware does not prioritize price over quality that this site has covered and repeated accurately as benefit not a con.

The non-pro Vision can make such affordances that may not be as appealing to do with the Vision Pro.

 

[mosesvii]

When you compare VR products like the Bigscreen Beyond 2 (107 grams) & the Meganex Superlight 8K (185 grams) to the Vision Pro (652 grams), the Vision Pro is a dinosaur. If Homer Simpson designed a VR Headset, it would be the Vision Pro!!

And yet the weight doesn’t make or break the headset. I’ve tried the big screen beyond 2, it doesn’t hold a candle to my VP. A standalone headset with an awesome screen and UI. It’s a dream to consume media in it

 

[Allen_Wentz]

They very much are VR headsets, the things you’ve listed are not prerequisites for what makes a VR headset or not.

Although the AVP is capable of VR, that does not mean "They very much are VR headsets." They instead really are their own thing, IMO primarily AR not VR.

 

[Dr McKay]

Although the AVP is capable of VR, that does not mean "They very much are VR headsets." They instead really are their own thing, IMO primarily AR not VR.

The comment I replied to was claiming that the Bigscreen Beyond 2, and Meganex Superlight 2 were not VR headsets because they didn’t meet his arbitrary and incorrect definition of a VR headset. I was not referencing the AVP in my comment.