It's gonna replace our desktops.
Imagine having a screen as big as you want, interacting with hands and pointing with eyes instead of using the mouse. This will make most office work much more productive.
In two words: Minority Report.
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What to Expect From Apple in 2023: AR/VR Headset, iPhone 15 Pro, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and More
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Imagine having a screen as big as you want, interacting with hands and pointing with eyes instead of using the mouse. This will make most office work much more productive.
In two words: Minority Report.
I have found that I rarely touch the PS5, these days. Once you experience gaming in VR, it's hard to go back to a plain old 2-D screen. Now, when they finally launch the PS5 Avatar game and the PSVR2, then my interest will be piqued.
Yep. If I'm not out walking in the woods or kayaking, I'm working out with VR apps like Supernatural. Granted, Beat Saber and most of the shoot 'em ups (typically not my cup of tea but the cartoonish Dead & Buried 2 is insanely fun) are a heck of a workout!
are you seriously so lacking in imagination? first, games alone will be enough to go mainstream as I said above once the graphic improves and hardware becomes lighter, with devs making games just like they did for iPhone.
now outside of game, you can have a travel app that takes you to all the cool places in the world like mount everest, pyramids, antarctica etc..thousands of places most people won’t be able to go, in full high def vr as you walk around just like you are there without the danger etc…app could charge some $ per location
or something simple and quick like Mercedes releasing a new car, and you can open doors etc…look around inside / outside, or checkout the space shuttle, or anything
or any kind of lesson, want to learn how to install a computer or fix a car, you can try it in vr with expert guidance use real examples to teach you
or instead of physically going to open house, you can do it vr ( already some very limited version of this on realtor without headset ), but in vr you get to feel the place walking around in high def just like if physically there
or vr sex…
or…insert infinite possibilities.
what‘a lacking now as I said is more powerful hardware for photo realistic graphics, lighter more comfortable head gear with end goal being similar to wearing glasses, and a unified App Store / good dev kit that anyone can leverage to make vr apps / games. It will be the same as now where everything has an app you can download, you will have a vr App to download… and once the headset becomes as comfortable as glasses it will ultimately replace your physical desktop for work ( maybe a hybrid ar / vr ) where you still type using a physical keyboard but everything else is just in the glasses.
I’m hoping for a mini version. These bedsheet-sized cloths are getting ridiculous, one-handed use is impossible.
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You guys are aware that VR controllers and games have been a thing for many years now? Oculus, Vive, Valve Index, …
Personally I’d hope for a moddable Beat Saber game, but not holding my breath with Apple.
While we were discussing what the iPhone 15 series will offer, here’s a competing product coming Jan 4th that has an interesting feature set.
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the OnePlus 11 also looks set to sport a 50 MP IMX890 main camera, aided by 48 MP and 32 MP shooters, with a 16 MP selfie camera in front. Under the hood will be the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, LPDDR5X RAM, and UFS 4.0 RAM. Three memory configurations are listed: 12/256 GB, 16/256 GB, and 16/512 GB. Lastly, the phone will be powered by a 5000 mAh battery with 100W charging.
The current Oneplus 10t runs $750 USD.
So if Apple is considering price reductions seems to be a response to its various competition products possibly.
New OnePlus 11 leak reveals more images, what's in the box, and the phone's key specs
Reliable tipster Evan Blass leaks more images of the OnePlus 11 along with the handset's specs.
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the OnePlus 11 also looks set to sport a 50 MP IMX890 main camera, aided by 48 MP and 32 MP shooters, with a 16 MP selfie camera in front. Under the hood will be the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, LPDDR5X RAM, and UFS 4.0 RAM. Three memory configurations are listed: 12/256 GB, 16/256 GB, and 16/512 GB. Lastly, the phone will be powered by a 5000 mAh battery with 100W charging.
The current Oneplus 10t runs $750 USD.
So if Apple is considering price reductions seems to be a response to its various competition products possibly.
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Magic Leap has an annual revenue approaching $200 million, and Microsoft got a military contract last year to deliver 120.000 HoloLens headsets. The tech is in real use.
To be fair, it not everything we imagine is realistic and/or is actually going to happen.
But sure.
Creativity is very important, especially in such a materialistic world
Don't think an iPad Pro refresh will happen in 2023. Looking forward to iPhone 15 Ultra/ Pro Max. Also would like to see Apple launch a bigger MacBook Air.
Of course. But none of those devices is flying off the shelves and there’s never been a breakout VR game despite VR being a thing, as you say, for many years. I think the controller is one aspect of why VR hasn’t taken off and will likely never replace console gaming.
Interesting. The idea doesn’t appeal to me at all but I’ve never tried a VR workout app, so what do I know! Maybe it’s more appealing than I realize.
Agreed. But chances are they will use the Hololens, if they aren’t using it already. Apple won’t be content with a niche product. They need to sells millions and millions of units to make it worthwhile. I just don’t see that happening, certainly not at the price point most expect. And I don’t see enterprise customers choosing Apple over Microsoft, especially considering the inroads Microsoft has already made.
Understandable due to the fact they want to upwell you to the brick-sized expensive phone. This thing will trickle down to the slightly-less-pro model the following year or 2 just like Dynamic Island next year . This technology is far from new and has come a long way. It‘d fit fine without a battery life hit. Especially on with an Apple SoC and efficiencies.
Another reason I probably will stay away from the iPhone (for another year) due to this fake “pro” phone nonsense.
I don’t think it’s upselling. Periscope module is huge. Look at teardowns. It’s the size of a 50MP sensor or roughly 3 12MP modules combined.
It would be like having 5 rear lenses on iPhone 14 Pro. The space comes from somewhere and it’s gonna be the battery.
I think this headset will just be a prelude for the actual revolution which are going to be the rumoured ARglasses - if this is going to be the more budget and more portable device, which is still a few years away, this is going to be the AR/VR etc. experience catered to the masses.
For now, target audience for the headset could be AR/VR developers who could take the headset as a sandbox to develop both the use cases (other than gaming) and the corresponding applications for future devices. I can already see a few applications like integration with AppleMaps though, displaying information on your surroundings into your view as way as the calculated route. Same for stuff such as Wikipedia, or retail shops. However, this would also require lots of integration with spatial data. will be curious to see how this develops but I think we are truly going to see some SciFi stuff in the next 5 years.
I would like to see the HomePod range increased. I missed out on getting the larger HomePod and would like to add them to my minis to be able to create a home cinema with great sound.
Either that Apple buy Sonos.
Either that Apple buy Sonos.
Sonos has been so disappointing for me. The product has steadily got worse over the years I have owned it thanks to their software upgrades.
What I really want is a modern version of the Time Capsule. I don't want all my data in their cloud, I want it local but with integration into the ecosystem. I don't expect it though and my gut feeling is I will have to move away from Apple as they go further down the services road.
All of this ls obviously going to change as the tech improves. Graphics. Depth of story. Lightness of glasses. Etc etc