Every platform has a hook and VisionOS’ immersive environment needs more than simply an iPad compatibility mode for apps running on the platform as well as needing more compelling content to drive people to it. The platform is niche for various reasons, but Tim Cook didn’t dedicate enough resources to it because despite the marketing talk coming out of his mouth, he didn’t believe in it. He has no conviction about the products themselves and the platforms, simply the net profit that can be derived from those platforms. iPhone generates the money and Tim Cook will dedicate all the company’s resource to the iPhone to the exclusion of all other considerations which is not how Apple should be run. Apple Intelligence is simply another feature to Tim Cook to monetize, not a transformational technology that Apple can take the lead in and democratize and humanize. That was Steve Jobs legacy…it will never be Tim Cook’s legacy..
Yeah I could wear mine all day if there was anything you could actually do with it. But, what, 18 months in and there's still no content, no apps, no I/O, no real support for even using it to create/edit/work with Stereo 3D or VR content. Apple seems committed to keeping it little more than a paperweight despite building the best AR/VR headset on the market hardware wise. Every kind of useful thing I can do with it is some kind of workaround or hack that should have been a built in solution if they'd asked even a single person why they may want a device like this.
All of your points are great but this one is such a killer. From Apple of all places, comes a device you can't tell if it's asleep or off or has a dead battery and can't check at all without just fidlling with the power cord until something decides to happen. And then, despite being tethered for power, I can't tether for data or video to any device at all, so I have to do this extra dance of lifting the thing off my head or squinting at my mac's screen just to get it to connect to a machine it regularly connects to. It's absurdly complicated and means I only pull out the Vision Pro if I know I'm going to be in it for a good while and have time to get settled and set up before I start working.
The issue you don't address here is it's not really possible to develop anything other than "a floating iPad window or an annoying AR experience" since the way Apple lets you develop apps for the thing those are really the only two choices -- anything more creative or interesting is not allowed. If you want data like hand tracking or eye tracking you have to create an app that takes over the full AR space, and if you don't take over the full space you can't do anything but what's basically an iPad app in a window waiting on the OS to pass events like button presses. Apple doesn't allow anything actually interesting to be done with the hardware.
iPad, yes. Absolutely. iPadOS has somedumb limitations, but for most of a decade iPad Pro and now Air have had the tools to do almost anything work wise. In the dark later days of the intel mac world, I used an 2018 iPad Pro more than my Macbook Pro, and it was faster and easier to do almost everything once you connected a keyboard and mouse. Not true anymore with Apple Silicon Macs that don't suck, but if I had to do everything on an iPad Pro, I could.
Paid full price. Use it almost daily for long stretches. Absolutely worth every penny.
Ok but how? Bigscreen requires a computer, external tracking, etc. Sure, I would love it if my AVP was the size and weight of a Bigscreen Beyond, but AVP, despite being hugely flawed, was desgined as a standalone capable device which is a totally different thing than a headset for PC VR. There will be a device with better standalone features that's even smaller than the Bigscreen someday, but that's so far from what's possible with the early 2023 hardware Apple had to work with when locking in the AVP's specs. I can say I wish Apple Vision Pro was like the Meta Orion, but that's a device that was unvelied as a tech demo over a year after the AVP and accoridng to all reports would cost over $10k just to build even at scale. In time there will be a 120 degree fov 75 gram headset that looks and acts like glasses when not "on" and can sell for a couple grand. But that time isn't now. And based on how dogcrap VisionOS is, I'm glad Apple is either learning what is needed software wise to make that device compelling, or learning that they are not able to compete in this market when it does arise.
I don’t have any issue with the weight. I regularly use the AVP and quest and have a larger size head. I can use either strap, prefer it a bit too close to my eyes but waive the warning.
Barely anyone bought it and you are one of a VERY FEW who use it regularly. And no one is talking about it.
The limited contacts I have who are involved with the AVP are mostly just surprised and happy I even try to use the thing sometimes — like my impression is they even think it’s more useless than I do and have no ability to fix it. Speaks to so many deep internal problems if you ask me.
Seriously? VR Goggles are well patented by other companies and while Apples version is gesture driven, Googles version will be AI driven - you remember Apple Intelligence is a inferior piece of garbage that tries to simulate true AI and Apple is completely stuck in its AI development.
