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| Jeroen3:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 05, 2024, 01:34:28 am ---VR/AR goggles like this in public might be in the "nope, too far" category for society. --- End quote --- You underestimate the stupidity of people. In any case I think apple placed some really high tech gear on the market here, especially the tracking software appears to be really good in the first reviews. Have you seen or tried what it has to complete against? Obviously they chose their way of doing it, and current ar is a niche (hololens) or a toy (meta quest). I think this will motivate competitors to try and match or exceed what apple is doing here and vr/ar/spatial computing will go mainstream. This is a good thing. Lot's of people ranting that they cannot possibly be allowed to sell it with an external battery or with this weight because it's uncomfortable. Yes, I agree it's a tether to current technolgy. And also, go on then, make a better one :P |
| Berni:
This is a 1st generation product and it shows. Rough around the edges, technology hurdles to still overcome and a really high price tag to go along with it. I personally have a Meta Quest 3 VR headset. It is a fun piece of tech. Tho after having accumulated a fair number of hours in VR, i also don't see that much of a point to buying a Apple Vision Pro. They are positioning this as basically a tablet replacement or some sort of productivity tool. But you don't want to spend a 8 hour work day with a VR headset strapped to your face, even the comfortable ones are not that comfortable. Just get yourself an extra monitor or two (they are much cheaper too) You can get the same monitor external extension functionality on a Quest 3 for 500$ if you wanted that. Buy an aftermarket halo style headstrap for 60$ to make it much more comfortable to wear (the original strap design on both the Quest and Apple Vision is not comfortable) that also includes a battery on the back of the headstrap that brings your battery life to over 3 hours, buy a extra swappable battery for 30$ and you got infinite battery life by swapping batteries between the charger dock and headset (Or a similar to apple sized pocket battery brick will run it for 10 hours). So for about 600$ in total you have a headset that is more comfortable, more usable and has more battery life(without having a cable tethered battery in your pocket). But really the only use i have for it is VR games (that Apple Vision does not even have). Watching 360° videos is useless because you have to turn your head around constantly and they don't have enough resolution to look sharp(they would need to be 16K or something for that). Using it as a giant cinema screen for watching movies is one other useful use case that works very well (image quality is really good). Another good use case i seen is also architectural design where you can give someone a tour of a soon to be built piece of architecture and make it feel as if they are standing there. There is software specifically for that. VR can be very fun and sometimes even useful. But this is mostly just a case of companies jumping on the bandwagon. The Metas Metaverse thing is a piece of shit that nobody would actually use for anything more than a random curiosity for 5 minutes. |
| magic:
Whatever it is, there will be porn for it and porn about it :D Other than that, no idea. |
| DiTBho:
--- Quote from: ebastler on February 04, 2024, 04:59:49 pm ---While Apple's NDAs may be tight, I don't think they are quite at NSA-level confidentiality yet. ;) --- End quote --- umm, think about the mechanism between Apple and Youtubers: Apple sends products to Youtubers/Journalists if and only if they respect a contract, which implies, among other things (don't damage the product, don't resell it on eBay/Wallapop/Aliexpress, carefully open the box | don't break it, ...) also NSA-like confidentiality agreement. I heard it from a couple of Youtubers during a backstage - sorry, I cannot say more than this - it's not my speculation :-// |
| DiTBho:
--- Quote from: tom66 on February 04, 2024, 09:36:13 pm ---For me the whole device seems like an attempt to kickstart the metaverse by Apple. --- End quote --- Yup, this is precisely my point :D |
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