Yeah, the only way these were going to become relevant was if they were integrated into the society as a whole, and that can’t be done with a 3000 dollar item.
A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset - "It's just collecting dust"
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https://www.techspot.com/news/107963-apple-vision-pro-owners-they-regret-buying-3500.html
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HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Walican132@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I don’t think these were released with the goal of relevance. I think they were released for “innovators” to get their hands on and to gage interest for broader implementation.
Basic product lifecycle like I don’t even think these are for the “early adopters” these are for the “innovators” or what ever the first part of product lifecycle is.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah it was pretty obvious that this was always going to be a subsidized R&D project.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
It’s the same story for every VR headset. Buy it, be blown away for a few hours/days, then never touch it again. I did it too, with Oculus Go. The only exception is for gaming, but Apple just doesn’t know anything about that. Honestly I’m blown away that they sold as many as they did, but that’s Apple marketing for ya, I guess.
It was insanely overpriced, and so obviously intentionally so. Sell a headset that gets plugged into a Macbook for computation and you’ll sell quite a few more. It’ll be lighter, cheaper, smaller, more comfortable, and easier to integrate into your workflow. But of course that would break Apple’s cardinal rule of making 2 products capable of the same tasks. Same reason why your MacBook will never have a touchscreen and your iPad will never drive 2 displays or run MacOS apps.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
So crazy that you can’t have as many general computing virtual display as you want in an apple vision.
Apple users don’t understand computerd beyond “the tool to do a task they need done.” So they don’t realise how roped in this they are in this system that constantly wants to curtail them.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
Everything is fine in the Apple ecosystem as long as you want to do something The Apple Way™.
As soon as you want to do something differently to how Apple decrees it should be done, then you’re screwed.
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 hours ago
I didn’t realize that was a thing
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Juicero-ass headset.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t know what they expected. That’s exactly what I thought it would be: a nice expensive toy if I didn’t care about money. If I had insane disposable income, I absolutely would’ve bought one. It’s an incredibly impressive machine even if it is overpriced. But from the get-go it was clear that the market would be super small, so how many things would truly be utilizing it? It’s not like there’s a single game that really pushes it to its limits.
Anyway yeah, I would’ve got it because I like VR it’s fun to tinker with. It would be cool to have a really fucking nice headset. Even just to experiment with the productivity tools and such. I like messing with stuff like that.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 23 hours ago
I don’t get it when people say that their technical gadgets are “collecting dust”. My house is full of consoles, PCs, routers and musical equipment that are in-use that are constantly covered in dust due to the static charge from being turned on.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Because the apple headset was a hype item, not a real attempt at really anything. I used one in an hour long product demo in a store, and it was a cool proof of concept, but absolutely had zero substance.
I’m all for VR, but I am REALLY hard on things I like. And it had GAPING flaws.
The only way VR as it is now is going to break into mainstream is if it’s comfortable, convenient, useful, and freeing.
Meaning, there needs to be basically no hurdle to putting it on, robust and usable in many circumstances, ACTUALLY has purpose that replaces or comes to par with existing tech and actually solves real problems, and you can pirate and watch porn with it, with privacy at every step of the way.
New tech can’t be WORSE than current tech.
ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
But a VR headset wouldn’t if it were used. It’s just a saying anyways.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I brought it out over the weekend to check out the immersive content that they’ve released since a year ago. I put it back in a drawer after about fifteen minutes. I would take it on vacation for content and for the laptop display feature, but that’s about it.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I tried the in-store demo and was blown away, but even after that short period I wasn’t sold over how isolated the entire experience is. The day may never arrive, but I can wait until these fit on a regular pair of glasses.
Walican132@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I agree with the glasses component. This tech will be so cool once it can integrate with what I already wear daily. Just like the watch.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
Called it
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Damn has it been a year?
grte@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
These things had such little impact I had entirely forgotten they were a thing that happened.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This reminds me of a project I saw some years ago, it was AR glasses with just a monochrome display that would project into the eye itself, adjusted to the individual user by an optometrist.
It was less ambitious than the other projects at the time on what it would be able to display, but this had the distinct advantage of being extremely power efficient and lightweight, allowing the system to fit into a normal glasses form factor.
It also looked cyberpunk as fuck with the user having a glowing red dot in one of his eyes during use, at least to everyone else. I tried a bunch of times to google for what ever has become of it, because I was very interested in the concept as a wearer of glasses.
Does anyone by any chance know what I’m talking about? This would have been in the early to mid 2010s.
TLDR: Want my cyberpunk glasses. Pls halp
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 1 day ago
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