I made the right choice back in 2019 when they were recruiting optimechanics experts. It's a dumb idea.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
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Yeah right. Surely it would have been a good idea to take the money for the last 5 years.
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Weird flex, but ok.
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I watched a YouTuber telling something like:
"I cannot believe Apple's biggest premium VR tech wants to change the world... And they are advertising it with... Fucking spreadsheets"
I am paraphrasing ofc, but the meaning was that this could have been a pretty good toy for everyone, but they are trying to sell it as a work-buddy thingy, yeah seeing those spreadsheets focus was kinda dystopian (like in Ready Player One where they are caged doing work or something hah), watching movies in crazy sites yeah, that was what would have sell it more for me, and other ppl, if it wasn't crazily expensive.
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Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model
That seems very reasonable and like what they probably should’ve been doing all along.
I still don't understand who the pro was actually for. Everyone who had one said exactly the same thing about it which was they couldn't understand how to use it productively for anything.
IMHO, it’s a fancy dev kit.
Exactly. Not promoting it as a dev kit was a major failure. This is the kind of product where you CAN'T do without external feedback, not everybody will use one in a clean office (or even one that stands still), not everybody has the same spatial awareness or motor skills, not supporting controllers locks out numerous people with limited hand movements, etc... As a dev kit it could've worked much better at getting the kind of feedback they need from devs working on useful AR stuff
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Companies have been pushing VR so long now. I'll say that I think the tech is cool and the idea is cool, but I will literally never use them.
I can't wear them while working as I am in meetings 99% of the time.
I would not wear them in my free time, as I do not want to disassociate from my wife and cats.
This is just a price to function issue.
If the price was 0 everyone would have one.
But the cost of it is way too high for what it is. Price and weight etc will come down. Uses will increase.
Have one != Use one. I own two and stopped using them ages ago. All of them are too clunky and I realized I'm generally too lazy to want to interact with stuff in VR vs my more comfortable media consumption on a TV and a couch.
Maybe if they were super lightweight and I could legitimately do real exercise with them they'd be useful, but as is they're too hot, too uncomfortable and too limited.
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I don’t think the cost is too high at all. But I also don’t think it’s a consumer device right now. It’s a dev kit with none of the cost savings of production at scale.
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If they can’t get the headset to fit the size and weight of swimming goggles, I don’t think it can get mass adoption
The front screen is what no one wants in a cheaper version. Don’t cut back on sound and cameras ffs
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