That looks very promising. Hopefully the battery improves drastically. Having never bought into the VR space, I’m very excited for this one. Let’s see how it pans out.
At that price, I don’t see this going anywhere. You can literally buy a car for the same amount. I was ready to drop a good amount on it, but they easily doubled what I was ready to pay.
Think of this like the HoloLens pro, which is priced similarly. Useful for businesses (who can pay a premium amount) and lets Apple hammer out the tech and decide how to ramp up volume. Note they also bought Mira, whom makes an AR headset (currently used for the Mario Cart game at one of the amusement parks), which uses a much simpler curved visor and is open to the outside otherwise - it’s in no way capable of being VR. Apple’s playing both ways, so it ought to be interesting to see what they come up with by v3
It's priced seriously aggressively for the tech in it.
All that enterprise shit is priced where Apple's is with awful displays compared to VR, while Apple's blows everything else you can buy out of the water on the display. And without a pretty high powered mobile computer and the excellent support ARKit offers in terms of making app creation reasonable.
We’ll see where their ambition lies. It might great for corporate-land and then they can get the price lower and we can buy one for a grand. It might stay a high-end device. It could tank. I want it to do well, since there’s some seriously cool tech in here. But we’ll see if they can make it compelling where HoloLens/Magic Leap/etc haven’t.
It's a dev kit/enthusiast version to get their foot in the door. I want it bad, though. It's first/best in class at a bunch of shit.
We'll see how long it takes, but pretty much all the analysts have expected them to be trying to get the costs down for a more mass market version, and naming it Pro implies that as well. Ultimately it will take some engineering, but getting a real device into the hands of devs and higher spenders so devs have a reason to start building out an ecosystem should make it smoother to sell to average consumers if they can figure out a way to get the price point.
And actually making the hardware helps to work towards economy of scale as well.
You and me both, dude. I hope they can make a consumer version at a reasonable price, but them buying Mira makes me think they have a radically different idea for the lower-end (but using the detectors/cameras on the Vision Pro to make it more “conscious” of where it is.
The only reason Apple won’t pay up in a timely fashion is because $500 million is so inconsequential to them that it’s easy to just ignore. They have more important things to worry about than pocket lint.
Forgive if I’m mistaken, but isn’t the vision pro literally an M2 MacBook Air inside a headset with an extra processor to handle the XR related stuff? I imagine many if not most of the things you can do with an M2 Air will inherently be possible with a Vision Pro, assuming it doesn’t get walled out of the garden.
To fix a detectable USB drive that won’t mount on Mac and Disk Utility can’t properly erase because it was originally formatted on a PC and requires a PC to correct.
Even though I like that someone did this just for the sake of scratching a nerdy itch, I can’t shake the relevance of your question. It’s profoundly fun and profoundly stupid all at once.
Isn’t it a shame, then, that you won’t really be able to do this unless you’re a developer with a Mac who can sideload it. Almost certainly visionOS will have the same draconian restrictions that get placed onto iOS’s App Store, and almost certainly no sideloading for non-developers either.
This headline just kinda depresses me. It’s super cool work that everyone should get to mess with, but it seems like Big Tech is intent on allowing for zero fun, all in the name of security and anti-piracy.
Companies dont want pirated content and its consequences on their products? Im sure you would love dealing with those headaches for free if you were responsible for them
Downvotes from children living in their fantasy world where articles about running pirated windows is a good look for apple
I dont understand your POV, sideloaded software =/= pirated content. also, what your saying is directly fighting againt the consumer interest of hardware freedom. are you also against the right to repair because apple can make their products however they want?
I endorse this. Slow charging an Apple Watch ultra is painfully slow and there’s no definitive way of telling a slow charging puck from a fast one unless you buy directly from Apple. The least they could’ve done was put a logo on the fast charger or ver 2 or something to visually differentiate it.
Forcing them to all be fast charging is the proper move as they’re also backwards compatible.
The article says it doesn’t add any lag, but I am skeptical. At the very least there will be a buffer to sync playback with the display. Apple didn’t design this feature with this use case in mind, so I doubt they put in any special effort to minimize latency.
In my experience, when random people say they “don’t feel any lag” with something but don’t put up any numbers to back it up, I usually end up feeling quite a bit of lag that they just don’t notice for one reason or another.
I think you’re right to be skeptical. I keep meaning to try it myself, but I’m easily distracted. I’ll likely find motivation in the fall when I go on vacation.
My work uses a mix of Microsoft Office and LibreOffice on our machines. I doubt the latter will become an industry standard anytime soon, but I was honestly surprised to see them using it.
Unlikely…MS Office is still the default for many enterprises today. 365 Office online version is not convenient. OSX version is deliberately made worse to entice people to use Windows
But not for large oranisations. And when some jobs depend on creating the shiniest powerpoint presentation in the world, MS Office is unlikely to go away for now.
Not even Office anymore, theyve got multiple levels of ERP systems linked in a with Azure resources for doing lots of core business functionality and automation which is becoming more and more a requirement, i.e. if your business can’t send/receive EDI you can’t sell to most major stores like Walmart/Kroger/etc.
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