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Apple Vision Pro: for me, epic failure

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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Jeroen3 on February 06, 2024, 11:03:45 am ---Did someone hook it up to a Boston Dynamics Spot yet?

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7er0BmWs4hg

tooki:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 04, 2024, 10:17:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 04, 2024, 09:53:32 pm ---Indeed. I’d certainly consider myself to be within tech circles, but I also don’t see any reason why I’d want one. The most compelling use case for me so far is being able to simulate a cinema-size screen for watching movies while laying in bed in any orientation.
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Don't existing goggles already do this?

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To be honest I’ve never looked into it, because even that is not that compelling to me. Maybe I should have called it the “least-uncompelling use case for me”!  ;D

tooki:

--- Quote from: ebastler on February 05, 2024, 11:25:30 am ---
--- Quote from: DiTBho on February 05, 2024, 10:54:18 am ---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.

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My point was that you may be confusing Non-Disclosure Agreements (which are a common industry practice when providing evaluation units prior to public launch) which the National Security Agency (who are probably not involved).

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They’re not, but having worked for Apple in the past (in retail), the comparison is not much of a stretch!  :P Apple takes secrecy extraordinarily seriously, using similar methods as the government. (For example, I worked the launch of the original iPhone. Only the store manager and inventory specialist knew when they would come — they were stored at secure FedEx facilities prior to distribution only a day or two before the launch event — and we didn’t get to see one in person until 2 hours before we had to sell them. Those 2 hours being halfway through the 4 hours we were closed to redress the entire store before reopening at 6pm for the launch event. Or how 7 months prior, for the iPhone announcement itself, the demo units were locked in a large safe at the expo center, which was brought over and then had a room constructed around it, with only one door made too small for the safe to fit through, and of course armed guards outside.) Suffice it to say, as an employee you did NOT want to have Apple security investigating you, since by that point you’re likely facing dismissal or a lawsuit. Lucky for us in retail, because of the “need to know”-only approach of distributing new product information, we never really knew anything before the public did. New products would often arrive at the store unannounced, with us hearing about the new products via the same tech news sites the public used.

Berni:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 07, 2024, 07:51:30 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 04, 2024, 10:17:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on February 04, 2024, 09:53:32 pm ---Indeed. I’d certainly consider myself to be within tech circles, but I also don’t see any reason why I’d want one. The most compelling use case for me so far is being able to simulate a cinema-size screen for watching movies while laying in bed in any orientation.
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Don't existing goggles already do this?

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To be honest I’ve never looked into it, because even that is not that compelling to me. Maybe I should have called it the “least-uncompelling use case for me”!  ;D

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Well when has Apple actually invented something new anyway? They are just really good at marketing inventions that the general public haven't heard of yet.

So far the only good use i personally found for VR headsets is gaming/simulators.

ebastler:

--- Quote from: Berni on February 07, 2024, 08:16:02 am ---Well when has Apple actually invented something new anyway? They are just really good at marketing inventions that the general public haven't heard of yet.

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That's not doing them justice, I think. They are also very good at polishing a pre-existing concept and embedding it in a powerful ecosystem, massively improving its usability and appeal. (And its revenue potential...) They have done that time and again, starting with the Apple II, Mac, iPod, iPhone...

And they have sometimes failed, at least commercially, by wanting to do too much too early, going overboard with technical complexity and cost -- the Lisa and the Newton come to mind. Let's see what category the Vision goggles end up in.

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