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Vision Pro With Mystery USB-C Adapter Spotted in WWDC Video
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I thought yesterday of a simple concept … if Vision pro is indeed a computer then nothing stops it to be linked a monitor … this could be the connector to wire it to a monitor … we would then appreciate Apple if this was with a M2 pro … Food for thoughts …
Better yet, buy three 49-inch monitors so you can spread your work out more. Or buy a Vision Pro and set up three virtual 49" monitors in your workspace. Pack the keyboard and trackpad so that you can be as productive on the plane as you are in the office or at your home office, (because you use your Vision Pro with its three monitor virtual workspace in all three of these locations and more).
Just connect a third party battery to the usb-c of the existing battery? Hopefully this will enable using it as an external VR-headset, e.g. using it with a mac without having to deal with a compressed video stream over wifi. Or playing SteamVR games, maybe even on Windows.
Nice thougt but it essentially runs iPadOS on a very likely thermally throttled M2. So it "could" outperform a M1 Pro MBP the same way a M2 ipad Air will outperform that.
It has alway been the argument that software is essential for apple's plattforms and that it might make up for less performance for the same price as a compareable windows PC. Seems like nowadays that's different - you get better hardware but less capable software that limits it's usefulness.
This is my belief as well. No way they announce the M3 chip, then put this out at $3,500 without the M3 chip in it.
I think most likely it ships with an M2 since this stuff takes time. But who knows, since they have almost a year maybe production units will get an M3 for a battery life boost and developer units will stick with the M2.
Not likely, no usbc port seen or reported on, just a MagSafe style charging connector. good bet its going to be wireless like people used to predict for the iPhone.
I believe the article talks about a dongle connected on the opposite side of the headset from the battery port. As far as I know, nobody knows what that port is for, but if it’s real it’s probably for some sort of data. But I still doubt one can connect wired peripherals.
the dongle is shown attached to the same place the battery normally connects leading people to speculate it’s for direct connection of power. In 360 views of the headset you don’t see any other ports or connection ports. And in no literature on the headset is a data port listed. or wired data connection mentioned. at this point why would Apple not mention this feature?
I wish it was possible to connect wired storage, but makes sense you can’t. you’d look sorta strange with a hard drive dangling down from your head. And doesn’t make sense to have a hard wire plugged in to your headset to get caught up. That’s why they use MagSafe for power.
we will all find out in the weeks ahead. If I’m wrong I’ll come back and take my lumps.
I believe all the images of VP I’ve seen show the battery cable connected on the left side, but this article shows the dongle on the right side. I suppose it’s possible both sides are for power, but that seems a little redundant. Or maybe the image is flipped for some reason. But a direct power dongle doesn’t seem necessary—it would make more sense to me to just plug power into the VP battery to power the headset and charge the battery simultaneously. The article suggests the data transfer is only for developer purposes, so it might not be a function intended for users. Yeah wired storage and other peripherals would be a bit odd and unApple-like, although it would be nice if it could plug into a Mac for full video stream.
Yeah we’ll see what it is pretty soon.
I’d love to be wrong, and have spent weeks googling, reading, and looking at pictures to find any hint of direct wired connections…and this article which admits to being pure speculation is the only one. On the other hand, There are a lot of folks that have used it writing about the need for a good WiFi network. But yep maybe Apple is planning to surprise us. Not sure they have after announcing a product before. Usually they allude to the potential in the future like the smart watch bands that never came connecting through the watch port. Or the ports on the iPad, that allowed it to connect to Apple iPad keyboards. But we shall see.
While I dont think there will be any USER accessible USBc port for external drives or THIRD party accessories, I’ll go on the record as saying I’m 100% certain that there IS a physical I/O port, most likely usbC, for various other purposes or future use cases.
Let the games begin.
It'd be nice if you could connect the AVP to existing PC Sim systems... I'm not interested in Zoom or MS Office strapped to my face for even 30min a day, but using it with my existing iRacing hardware... That would have been great.
Until there's a native "killer app" for this thing, connectivity to the wider world of sim/vr would have helped sell more units, which would attract more developers to make native apps, one of which could be the "killer app".. sadly.
Maybe iFixit will open one up and find the port and post how to access it. Maybe they'll find out that when you connect it via USB-C to a Mac or PC it comes up as a display?
Fingers crossed.
you mean like the a six-pin charging port concealed in the little notch that connects the wristband to the watch? or the Smart Connector is on the back of the iPad, and has three small, magnetic contacts? is that what you mean by 100% certain the APV is going to have a physical port? Can I ask your source?
regardless, I got excited too many times by the allusions to in the future those ports were going to be useful to the consumer as data ports. hasn't happened. charging on the iPad on their expensive keyboard yes.. I/o? no.
I'll go on record saying I am 99.999% certain nothing useful in terms of I/O will come from any physical ports on the APV. I'm a scientist, never say always (or 100%).