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Me? I don't understand how it's more cumbersome than carrying around a phone and headphones, and a laptop, and several external displays, oh and wearing glasses and usually a hat already. And my TV. It's literally an everything device. Seriously I almost always have headphones, a hat and glasses on, now I don't have to carry other devices as well, just wear some super glasses. Of course this version is far from the mature, idealized version, but I really don't understand how/why it's so hard to imagine wearing a set of glasses barely more bulky than decent over ear headphones
if it did not cost more than half my monthly pension income I would love one. Having the big screen experience in our small house/living room with these would be awesome. Now unfortunately individual experience or I buy one for wife also (also not happening she is not a techie LOL).
 
Because you are totally out of touch with your environment, when wearing this. Your eyes do not get natural lighting and framerate, instead you look into a kind of torch with artificial colors etc.

Seriously, this product will make anyone sick when using it regularly. Just glue your smartphone to your glasses and put your airpods in and you will know what the experience is like for the most part.
Oh my god. This isn't a "wear 24/7 device." you wear it to watch a movie. Or to do a focused work session. Someday the AR version will be capable of all day wear. This is just a better way to watch TV, or work on your laptop. Huge leap forward and only a small fraction of the leap that is coming.
 
Ouch! This is insane. Now whos ready to spend $3499 next year?

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No way @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ That is almost 60% of my monthly pension income. And as you know I used saved money equal to a month to upgrade my macbook, ipad and get new AirPod Max. So I am done. Next year it is saving only for the 16 Promax or Ultra in fall. Keeping my 14 ProMax a year longer and as backup. Thats my budget for the year plus so no way for me unless apple gives me one to test and we know that is not happening
 
it seems to be a full computer tho, not just goggles. like you could ditch your laptop completely which can cost about the same.
I don't think Vision Pro can compete with a multiple computer multiple monitor setup. It's too focused on priority processes you have opened, not layered. For most the current desktop or mobile solutions will easily suffice. It does represent state of the art for what its intended purpose though.
 
Oh my god. This isn't a "wear 24/7 device." you wear it to watch a movie. Or to do a focused work session. Someday the AR version will be capable of all day wear. This is just a better way to watch TV, or work on your laptop. Huge leap forward and only a small fraction of the leap that is coming.
If you live alone... that is.
 
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In germany its below 2000€ a month and the average retired pensioner gets about 1400€ a month. I think selling this in Europe, specially during the ongoing recession is nearly impossible. Maybe they can sell some devices in Dubai or Monaco...

and most people live in an apartment and don't even have the space to really take advantage of this :D I don't think I could make more than 1 screen fit per room
 
This is indeed a tough decision.

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The Vision Pro is also a disaster from a business perspective for Apple and shareholders. It likely costs huge amounts of R&D and it won't sell, and even if it would in 10 years time, it would replace Apple TVs, HomePods, Watches, MacBooks, AirPods and iPhones and so on. In other words, Apple would only sell one device, whereas they can now sell many different devices and make more money.
What you've just said makes absolutely zero sense. As we all know, there's a big overlap between several different Apple platforms, and they have no issue in having them potentially cannibalizing each other because, guess what, more often than not they don't; Apple users tend to buy several of them anyway.

I'm guessing it would be technically feasible for Apple to provide you with a “virtual iPhone”, “virtual Mac”, “virtual Apple Watch” with these, but they won't, unless you actually own those (and, in fact, it would be very interesting if all these devices could AirPlay their screen's outputs into Apple Vision and have it re-render them, instead of just recording and displaying their output – moiré will surely become an issue, and I'd love to see how they intend to solve that).

In any case, no matter how good this technology becomes (unless we get into neural implant territory, like the Elongated Muskrat is proposing, and actually get it right, which I believe is completely impossible considering how nascent neuroscience still is), nothing will ever replace true reality. Apple knows this, and will keep selling more tactile gadgets and even desktop workstations anyway.

Don't forget that we're approaching the physical limits – as in the limits of the very laws of physics – of traditional silicon-based processor manufacturing processes, and that Moore's Law is, what, 10 years away from outright dying? For certain workflows, especially in content production, you'll still need physical, dumb boxes, tactile tablets with pencil support, mice or trackpads for precision input (good luck getting that with air-based gestures, unless I missed something in that presentation), etc.
 
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One big problem they didn't address: when I'm editing a document on my monitor and a coworker comes over, they can just look at it. With my Reality Pro, I have to share digitally, or take the headset off (and the prescription lenses). That's less efficient than not wearing a headset, so I was surprised not to see a 'shared vision' feature for two headsets close together.
 
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I already have over 3k worth of homecinema gear in my apartment. Sure, years ago i tried those "big screen" cinema apps on a oculus rift etc, those were nice and would be way nicer with apple's gear and implementation, but paying that much for a single user experience...no way !
 
Look for Apple to plummet a bit for the next month... No AI. DOA headset. No essential software or services. But can't be emphasized enough what a joke this headset is. A massive failure Cook should've said no to.
No AI? You know AI, as it's being touted at the moment, is mostly just software, right? And that Apple's wares all have powerful ML cores which will be prime AI engines if and when the software is mature enough… right?

Also, I'm not saying that AI itself as a concept is a fad, but ChatGPT and other predictive, language-based – i.e. dumb-as-bricks – models may turn out to be indeed a bit of a fad. No, really; just look at those news of professionals being fired left and right for trusting them a wee bit too much (like that Canadian lawyer who used ChatGPT and had it cite completely made up, non-existent cases). Also, even the impressive visual models depend almost entirely on data ingestion, and if there's enough of an uproar against them (and there will be), we may just see them stagnate and/or – along with the language-based models, which have only now started producing criminal levels of bogus material, like made up libel – be sued into oblivion.
 
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That front glass is one big smudge/crud/dirt/dust/scratch magnet. And I can guess Apple will charge around 2k for warranty/Apple Care replacement.
 
Ok, I know you all are focused on the Apple Vision, but I was doing a bit of sleuthing now that the Keynote video was published, on the Mac Pro segment we can clearly see that the SSD modules are numbered. Apple only usually numbers components on the Mac Pro if they are user upgradeable, am I right?
 

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