These goggles keep getting funnier. 😆
It's just like with the metaverse stuff; it's a weird combination of creepy and inept.
It's just like with the metaverse stuff; it's a weird combination of creepy and inept.
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Vision Pro Reviews: Surprising Battery Life, 'Weird' Personas, and More
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Joanna Stern (WSJ) isn't paid review. She's usually pretty fair.
It's honestly a joke. It's the same iOS-based code to run this thing... doesn't seem hard for them to put that in, even if it's done on some iPhone app prior to using the headset (like the Watch app).
Honestly for me personally, this thing is a fail. It will be forgotten like the Mac Pro.
You're going to see these things FLOOD eBay.
This is a novelty item at best that will be fun to use for a month or two and never be touched again.
It reminds me when I bought a nice expensive 3D TV, used it with the great glasses for a few weeks, it looks amazing, and I never touched them again a month or two later. And what do you know, no one sells 3D TV's anymore.
The other thing I thought was interesting was Nilay’s point about how your eyes are the mouse cursor, and you need to look at every button to click it.
It seems like a cool concept, but the idea of using your eyes (which are already being used to look at things) for cursor input seems like something that doesn’t really work as a high-productivity input method.
People get good at typing when they stop looking down at the keyboard - that goes for physical and touch keyboards, musical keyboards, and other input devices such as game controllers - in other words, when they decouple visual focus and input.
It seems like a cool concept, but the idea of using your eyes (which are already being used to look at things) for cursor input seems like something that doesn’t really work as a high-productivity input method.
People get good at typing when they stop looking down at the keyboard - that goes for physical and touch keyboards, musical keyboards, and other input devices such as game controllers - in other words, when they decouple visual focus and input.
Yes, but the Vision OS version of the desktop is all new. I suspect that they are still trying to figure out what features work and what don’t in this environment and what people will need to do.
1) Replace Personas with Memoji
2) Why is the Home Screen text so small and thin?
3) There needs to be a REAL transparency mode paired with optional look outside break notifications (like stand reminders on the Apple Watch) to rest your eyes.
4) Part of the reason for the high price is to stop this from cannibalising Apple's other display options, no?
5) I'm not buying one at least until I can plug it directly into my iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
2) Why is the Home Screen text so small and thin?
3) There needs to be a REAL transparency mode paired with optional look outside break notifications (like stand reminders on the Apple Watch) to rest your eyes.
4) Part of the reason for the high price is to stop this from cannibalising Apple's other display options, no?
5) I'm not buying one at least until I can plug it directly into my iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
You can work on something like this in the lab for years, but until you get it into people‘s hands you never really know how they will use it. You also don’t know what kinds of apps developers will come up with. At some point youve just got to ship it and see what happens.
This seems pretty much right there for a 1.0 product. These little glitches like the personas and eyesight rendering are pretty minor and are the kind of thing that is likely to evolve pretty quickly. Some things on a new product, like the heart-beat sharing app on the Watch, turn out to be unimportant. Others, like the measuring heart rate, turn out to be even more useful that you thought. This is how we learn.
This feels like a developers kit and not end-user-ready though it has been gussied up to be sold that way.
I feel like it'll be great by the 4th version but this one doesn't go far enough based on these reviews to warrant using, that's my take after watching a lot of the review videos and I was excited for it at launch I could even see myself buying one when it became available in my country but now ... I think it's still too early, technologically not good enough yet.
I feel like it'll be great by the 4th version but this one doesn't go far enough based on these reviews to warrant using, that's my take after watching a lot of the review videos and I was excited for it at launch I could even see myself buying one when it became available in my country but now ... I think it's still too early, technologically not good enough yet.
If that were true, then the woman would all be drop dead gorgeous.
VisionOS is based on the iPad OS code stack. Instead of this being a good thing, it's a sign of things to come. All the newest features will come to iPhone, then iPad a year later, and VisionOS a year after that.
Yes. Apple has this total obsession with eliminating all tactile feedback. It is very counterproductive.
Drop the outer display and glass front. Keep the cameras and frame, drop the solo knit band In the box. Drop $2k off the price and it will sell like hotcakes.
4) which other display options are you talking about
5) never will happen, it's a standalone device, thats why you have airplay
Hats off to the beta testers who opened their wallets for this product.
Apple knowingly sold you a $3500-$4000 product with the passthrough quality of a $500 Quest 3 and spatial video capture cameras that have worse quality than Meta's Ray-Ban? Yikes.
Apple knowingly sold you a $3500-$4000 product with the passthrough quality of a $500 Quest 3 and spatial video capture cameras that have worse quality than Meta's Ray-Ban? Yikes.
Common people. They are "Personas". Not real photographic look-a-likes. Much better than what any other headset provides.
I wonder if Tim had hoped for one more stock booster shot product so he could ride off on a high note.
Pass through quality far exceeds the MQ3 fuzzy pass through. It only looks good in video captures due to post processing, irl it’s functional but crap.
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Let’s be honest Apple isn’t the same anymore the hype is always better than the real thing, nothing has got me excited in years. Apple just isn’t the same, over priced tech that isn’t the future
Quest 3 is better in every way, better vr gaming and content viewing with big screen vr. Better fov and controllers are better for gaming and using device, and it’s £480 anymore that gets Vision Pro needs to return it I think