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Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don't Get It, Analyst Says::While Vision Pro returns were uncommon, many came down to owners not figuring out its spatial computing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean this is just like with all VR headsets. Most people simply dont need to have a screen strapped to their face, let alone at the cost of 3,000 buckaroos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Shit, closer to 4,000 of those buckaroos after taxes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

If your users don't get what you're trying to do, maybe try to do something better?

As far as I can tell this is a really nice and well built headset, with a great screen, but it doesn't actually do what all the other VR headsets do: Play VR games. Telling that even people already used to forking over large sums to Apple aren't really interested in paying $3500 to arrange iPhone apps around their living room.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

(Setting aside how much I hate Apple for the moment)

A lot of these VR and mixed reality things are much neater in theory than in practice. I have tried the whole virtual-desktop-in-VR thing before and it just isn't really much more productive unless maybe you are really pressed for space. You can just get another monitor, not have to wear a giant gizmo on your head and be able to drink your coffee while you work without issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I thought it would be more with all the wannabe influencers making YouTube review videos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense to me. Sounds weird but some people don't have the ability to think in 3D. My wife is one such person. For example she can't combine in her head her actual spatial position and surroundings with Google Maps, so she can't use it. Same with those 3D rotation IQ test types of puzzles. I'm sure she wouldn't be able to use spatial computing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah this isn't surprising news to me. I can see the vision being super useful in some niche business/art cases but for 99.9% of people it's a prohibitively expensive toy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From one video i watched about the apple vision pro, it looked like it had some really cool features

Could you replicate every single one of those features with a google cardboard? I think so, but the extra $34999 is worth it for the apple branding

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could you replicate every single one of those features with a google cardboard? I think so

This is so far from the truth I just have to assume you're making a "joke" and not an apple hater who's too fanatical to form their own opinions.

The vision costs a shit load of money because they've put an abundance technology and R&D into the product to make it capable of things no other VR/AR headset is capable of. By all accounts the screen resolution, response rate, 3D tracking, and gesture recognition create an experience that other headsets can attempt to mimic but will fall short of. Watch MKBHD's videos on it, it's genuinely a really impressive piece of technology.

And yes, they charge more because they are Apple and they know their hoards of loyal followers will buy anything they make.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Sorry, i meant all the feaures that looked cool to me, not all of them

Also, yes, it was a joke

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