[mattbrewsbytes]

Uses of VR/AR outside of gaming are going to be niche. Gaming use cases could also be considered niche within the realm of gaming. For entertainment outside of gaming, observe any young person consume a long piece of content like a show/movie and they probably have another device nearby they are texting on. The goal for VR/AR should be distracted entertainment not immersive entertainment like most examples show.

Mainstream use cases like office workers (I don't think Apple depicted this) are less likely in my opinion. Typical office workers (not developers/engineers like on here) are given a bare bones budget PC to do their job, like total spend of $500. Even if form factors for VR/AR get to "comfortable for 8 hours" levels I still don't see the ROI on the hardware for commercial purposes like office workers - most VR/AR headsets require some other compute device as well.

[crooked-v]

> Typical office workers (not developers/engineers like on here) are given a bare bones budget PC to do their job, like total spend of $500.

The market here isn't typical office workers, it's execs and high-value workers like software devs. They won't even have the production at a scale large enough that it could be available to typical office workers en masse for years at a minimum.

[mattbrewsbytes]

Execs are typically spending their day mostly doing face to face things. Developers can have a lot of pixels in front of them very cheaply these days. I fail to see ROI in these use cases either. Being "more productive" usually doesn't quantify very well if it is all just a feeling.

[fragmede]

How do you propose measuring developer productivity though? Lines of code written? Unfortunately we've yet to figure out a metric for developer productivity other than "a feeling" and as a developer, sometimes I work better when other people are in the room. Unfortunately, the cheap pixels with a high ROI that are available to me don't travel well, so I either have to go somewhere and be confined my laptop, or someone else has to come to me and be confined to their laptop. (Having an office where that happens is so passé these days.) I have no idea if Apple Vision will let that be different, and $3,500 is too much for me to shell out, but I want to be in my home office but also have my home office colocated with everyone else's home office. Maybe I can setup my office in a self-driving car and it can shuttle me and my desk around to meetings.