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Waning interest?
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The more people who get to demo these, try their friend's one out etc will all help with interest for future versions when the price comes down and the platform matures.
Everyone who's tried mine has been blow away by the technology and it was amazing how quickly my teenage kids picked up navigating around it.
Everyone who's tried mine has been blow away by the technology and it was amazing how quickly my teenage kids picked up navigating around it.
Looking forward to finally trying one next week. Been dealing with an eye issue since 2 days before the AVP’s release and will finally cross the finish line next week. Conveniently for me, my eye doc is 2 doors down from the Apple Store lol.
For anyone who remembers when memory was measured in K and not M or G, tech is a bargain these days 🥳
Glad you’re on the mend! Hope the demo goes well for you. I read that you can play around a bit now rather than just doing their set script?
First computer I used (Heathkit) had an LED hexadecimal display and a whopping 512 bytes of RAM.
Thanks man! I’ve never done anything VR-related before so I’m sure I’ll be blown away.
Over the last two months there have been a good few things happen that have made me more appreciate AVP
While vision os 2 is moving slowly, we aren’t even 6 months into the platform. Apple has also left open the opportunity to sprinkle Apple Intelligence across VisionOS when they get the time, so perhaps by spring it will get something more than they have announced. I don’t expect the next two months to be this eventful for AVP but my excitement has been reignited nonetheless. Now if only I could get that damn mac display working perfectly over vpn, I might need to pickup a developer strap.
- New Immersive highlights (mostly just hype but close ups of planet earth esc shows, MLS, basketball, parkour, surfing)
- New immersive videos, roughly 30m worth of content, more on the way
- Found an app called Chroma, now I have a personal home theater immersive environment in AVP for my Plex library.
- “What If…” - A theme park ride in a headset. The more I think about it, the more I like it. You wouldn’t be able to replicate this experience in any other way. this is also much cheaper and quicker to pump out than a theme park ride. i can see a lot more of this kind of content in the coming years.
- VisionOS 2: installed on day one and general navigation is much smoother, the gestures are slick. It feels as stable if not more stable than the latest public release. The equivalent of dual 4K displays for Mac! Can’t wait for that to drop.
- The Talk Show with John Gruber via Apple Vision Pro and the Theater app. I’ve always wanted to go but I never make the time. AVP allowed me to feel a bit like an audience member hundreds of miles away. That was really special. We need more of it and it goes back to the core of my original post from march: why didn’t Apple do this for WWDC? at least the initial keynote? I assume it’s logistically harder for them than Sadwich productions putting on a remote immersive stream for the talk show but it just feels like a missed opportunity to give AVP its own place in the stack. It sits well above other products when it comes to immersive event participation, use it! Sell it!
- Another thing I have considered is how hard it is to do all of this. If Apple is announcing a single lense for a single camera at WWDC, then it makes me think about how tough it has been for them to pull this immersive content together with the limited hardware they’ve had. Certainly hoping for a 5yr retrospective where some Apple exec says “yeah, doing immersive initially was hard not because of budget or interest, but because there weren’t many cameras to begin with!”
While vision os 2 is moving slowly, we aren’t even 6 months into the platform. Apple has also left open the opportunity to sprinkle Apple Intelligence across VisionOS when they get the time, so perhaps by spring it will get something more than they have announced. I don’t expect the next two months to be this eventful for AVP but my excitement has been reignited nonetheless. Now if only I could get that damn mac display working perfectly over vpn, I might need to pickup a developer strap.
Still can't make or take a phone call from Vision Pro. No contacts app either. Basic and huge misses in my opinion. IT should have at minimum same features as an iPad Pro. Still on the fence about keeping mine.
I can’t even believe this is a topic to be debated. Of coarse there’s “waning interest”. It’s an expensive new product category for apple that hasn’t proven itself useful. The people that wanted to buy it, bought it. But for there to be a market for it, like a really large market ala ipad, it needs to be cheaper. Simple as that. Imagine if apple ONLY had the iPad Pro All along. Never an air. Never a ipad starting at $300ish dollars. It was just an expensive sheet of glass people think are full of compromises. Would that product have taken off? Maybe. But very slowly.
Even if this was half the price a lot of people would still be saying “it’s cool. Can’t deny that! Just don’t know if i want to always be wearing a computer on my head”. I think with the marketing they were expecting people to be wearing these non stop and using them as much as an ipad, but really this is a special occasion type of thing for some people. Special Use. Like an Apple Watch and how it’s great for fitness. You’re not gonna play games on it. You have a specific use for it like watching a blockbuster movie in imax at home
the vision is gonna have to be a line of products that cater to more needs and half the price. Straight up. For a lot of people to think “i don’t know if i want to wear it” PLUS it’s the price of 4 iphone pro’s, it’s a hard sell. Lower price. Lower weight. Build out the OS. I think some insider at apple said something to the effect that they thought this wouldn’t catch on for a few generations and i couldn’t agree more. Would not be surprised if this is a extremely slow go and we don’t see it catching on for 5-6 years
Even if this was half the price a lot of people would still be saying “it’s cool. Can’t deny that! Just don’t know if i want to always be wearing a computer on my head”. I think with the marketing they were expecting people to be wearing these non stop and using them as much as an ipad, but really this is a special occasion type of thing for some people. Special Use. Like an Apple Watch and how it’s great for fitness. You’re not gonna play games on it. You have a specific use for it like watching a blockbuster movie in imax at home
the vision is gonna have to be a line of products that cater to more needs and half the price. Straight up. For a lot of people to think “i don’t know if i want to wear it” PLUS it’s the price of 4 iphone pro’s, it’s a hard sell. Lower price. Lower weight. Build out the OS. I think some insider at apple said something to the effect that they thought this wouldn’t catch on for a few generations and i couldn’t agree more. Would not be surprised if this is a extremely slow go and we don’t see it catching on for 5-6 years
A bit of historical perspective might be of value. The Macintosh Plus I bought in 1986 cost $2600, equivalent to $6400 in today’s money. I bought my Apple Vision Pro for less than $6400. Both the Mac Plus and the AVP were/are relatively expensive purchases; Apple has consistently sought to serve the high value high margin segment of the market, especially when introducing new products. Macs became more affordable in time, and a killer app was discovered- desktop publishing. Something similar may happen with the AVP. In the meantime, I’m not surprised to hear that it costs more than many people feel it is worth. Those people are not the intended market segment. For now.