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by dorkwood 712 days ago
For all the people laughing at the Vision Pro and saying it's useless, just remember that when the first iPhone came out people were saying the same thing. It's often the second or third generation of a product where it really starts to shine.
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There are also plenty of products that just aren’t that good or useful from the beginning and it doesn’t matter how many revisions it gets.

Also, Apples version is on its first generation but it’s not like VR as a whole is, “modern” VR has been around for a decade.

The iPhone had a killer feature back then which allowed you to make phone calls. Less needed nowadays I suppose but back then it was key to success.
We can also remember Siri when it came out. Jaw-dropping demo, but still more less useless after 10 years.
I’m happy to wait and see what they come up with. Tempted to get a quest in the meantime. AVP was too heavy, quest a bit too limiting.

I’ll say that I was very happy with my G1 instead of an iPhone back in the day.