[matco11]

This is the best review I have ever read on the Apple Vision Pro. Also, we should probably stop lying to ourselves, and finally admit what we have known in hour hearts for a little while now: Apple is not anymore what it used to be. Reading this makes it clear…

Apple Vision Pro is the modern equivalent of John Sculley’s Apple Newton

[devsda]

My take away from the GP was that it's not so much as an issue with Apple'version of VR but about the state of the technology itself. The hardware today is too bulky and difficult to use as a daily driver.

May be Google was on to something with their glasses and may be some version of electrochromic glass goggles that also works as a display is the answer.

I agree that Apple is not what it used to be. They normally don't go for still evolving tech and swoop in with a better product(and experience) only after the product's viability is established.

[ragazzina]

> not so much as an issue with Apple'version of VR [...] The hardware today is too bulky

Apple knew the hardware would be too bulky and went forward anyway.

[Gigachad]

Not sure this is really an Apple thing. Basically all the tech companies have released some VR or AR product that either flopped, or was downgraded to a niche industry product.

Remember just a few years ago when Meta was trying to convince us that the metaverse was the future.

[kyriakos]

Part of Apple's strength is getting into the market at the right time when technology is ready and offering a streamlined, just works experience. Apple Vision Pro is nothing like that and that's why the previous commenter said it's not the usual Apple...

[ffsm8]

Meta didn't stop with that though?

Just a few weeks ago they released new products that actually have a much bigger potential then the Vision Pro for the usecases virgildotcode imagined. I.e. Orion AR. As a person that only knows about it from the presentation/demos it kinda sounded like a crossover of VR headset and Google Glasses

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-firs...

Though I sincerely doubt it will succeed at a wider audience either, even if it's mass market appeal is way higher.

The tech just isn't there yet - we'd need 4-8+k displays per eye with batteries that need to last at least 10 hours for this to become really viable (even if we could probably compromise batteries with a usb-c connection to the laptop for this particular usecase)

[homarp]

orion is not _released_ though. it is 'this is what we are working on'.

[ffsm8]

True, I really should've said announced.

Nonetheless, that should strengthen my point - as my comment was a rebuttal Gogachads nonchalant past tense wrt Metas ongoing investment into the metaverse. Metas main goal is still exactly that, ever since their pivot

[seanmcdirmid]

You can pry my oculus quest 2 from my cold dead hands. But yes, the meta verse isn’t happening. However, they just released a new Eminem beat saber song that is crazy addictive.