[pixelbath]

Author has not tried the product, and their main points seem to be:

  1. Meta makes VR headsets and failed.
  2. Vision has a lot of fancy tech, but I don't understand how that helps Apple.
  3. People who are excited about Vision also liked Google Glass, a failed product.
  4. Big televisions are cheaper.
  5. Apple didn't mention motion sickness, so maybe that's a problem.

Hope this saves at least someone from a very clickbaity article.

[xela79]

Apple's AR/VR headset was not demo-ed by more than one person wearing it; so this makes it so that it remains an isolating experience, as it ever was; not ground breaking social features added that are worth it;

so the target audience who might consider this 4k headset, will be the exact same that Meta is targetting at a fraction of the cost.

[cassianoleal]

They did mention motion sickness. They talked about refresh rates and input lags and how it's important so that people don't get sick. Can't recall their exact words but they definitely did.

[ghusto]

I don't think that's accurate. His main point is that there is no market for this, and the points you mentioned are just digs he gets in whilst Apple's on the ground.

[babelchips]

Just like the market for tablets before the iPad and the market for smartwatches before the Apple Watch?

[_zzaw]

Agreed. "There's no obvious market for X" could also mean "all versions of X have sucked so far".

I'm not a VR enthusiast—I don't own any headsets, and will probably not be buying this one—but this is a profoundly lazy article, and not one I'd take seriously as far as judging the merits of Vision.

[ghusto]

Who is buying those, and what for? I'm genuinely curious.

[gls2ro]

I dont know but if you thinking there is no market, the numbers are telling a different story:

Apple made 9 billion in revenue in Q1 2023 from iPad.

I think that is a lot of market.

[ghusto]

I believe you ;) I'm just curious about who it is, and what they buy them for.

I can mostly get my head around the iPad. My guess is that it's people who don't want (to get out / have) a laptop. In fact, this is the device the average person should probably have instead of a laptop.

The Apple Watch though? I can't fathom where these sales are coming from. It's been years, so it's no longer novelty of a new Apple product.

[kcplate]

I can answer to my own reasoning. I have MacBook, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch.

- MacBook is my workhorse for work. When it retire this device will be the first to go. - IPad Pro used for all manner of media and content consumption, mainly personal use and because it’s cellular enabled and portable enough it tends to go with me when I need to do work in a “device light” manner. This device of all would be my favorite piece of tech I have used in a near 40 year career in tech. - IPhone is my phone, main audio player, occasionally used for browsing content consumption in a pinch. - Apple Watch is probably the one I could live without the easiest, but it’s handy for health tracking, paying, and this may sound ridiculous…but the biggest value I get from it is walking up to my MacBook and not having to log in or type in a password.