Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really.

Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought::Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really, writes John Herrman.

  • darthelmet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    443·
    9 months ago

    VR has been a thing for years now and has been getting cheaper over time. I’ve had no interest in using it whatsoever. Clearly the thing that needed to change was for it to get MORE expensive. Thanks Apple! Always giving the customer what they didn’t know they wanted!

    • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      104·
      9 months ago

      To be fair to Apple, the AVP is first of it’s kind. Literally nothing else functions the same way it does. But based on its naming, you can bet a lower priced version is already on its way. For regular consumers, that’s the one you should get, not this, especially when 3rd party apps are still being developed.

      • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        Literally nothing else functions the same way it does.

        Nothing is as shitty as apple did is big understatement

  • Tremble@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    191·
    9 months ago

    Google glass seemed to me like it could have been the one to stick. Less wonky, but the whole camera thing I guess freaked people out?

    • northendtrooper@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I bet if they re-released it with better hardware, no one would bat an eye compared to the initial release. Hell I would go as far as to say people would buy it just to have Bard AI integrated into it. Because people are people and people buy things.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        9 months ago

        At this point they could probably make it look enough like regular glasses that most people wouldn’t even notice someone wearing it.

          • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            9 months ago

            For people buying this, yes. For people interested in an unobtrusive Google glass style option, I think not so much.

        • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          They have and it didn’t have the same fanfare that Google glass got, granted, not entirely the same concept, but the camera was the issue.

          Edit forgot link

          • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            9 months ago

            Ehh, sort of. There was a lot more to glass than just being a camera for livestreaming.

            I remember a lot of talk about “gl-assholes” and how dumb people wearing it looked. But if those Wayfarers had an AR display inside, no one would ever know.

    • thorbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Except you can… it’s a computer. It has a web browser and can play any file… that whole uproar was just about certain formats of VR porn not being supported. Which you can install by side loading.

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteEnglish
    151·
    9 months ago

    Wasn’t there a Steve Jobs interview where they asked what the iPad is for right after its release, and he did that Steve Jobs smirk and kind of said, “I don’t know, we’ll just wait and see how people use these”?

    I feel like it’s a similar approach here. The iPad certainly didn’t displace all laptops, but I think it’s considered to be a success.

    • Identity3000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      I think a key difference is that Apple had a very clear target demographic for the iPad in mind (lightweight laptop / heavy phone users), and then were prepared to see how it evolved on top of that premise.

      With the Vision Pro, they haven’t been able to articulate their target userbase at all, and are pretty much relying on the early adopters to help define it for them.

      Which isn’t to say it can’t find its place and be successful. But I don’t think it’s anything like Apple’s other product releases at all…

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    can it even be used as a pc headset?
    if no, than it’s a complete waste of money, especially with it’s piss poor fov and refresh rate

  • rab@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    So then why did they buy it? Consumers are crazy dumb.

  • squid_slime@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    First thing I’d do is put two half ping pong balls over my eyes to mess with eye display feature, then I’d get rid… Not like I can play dcs with it anyway