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by creativenolo 483 days ago
I think Apple played it well to test the market on a larger scale with few hardware compromises based on cost, rather than testing the market with something cheaper, less capable, and with the promise of being better in the future. There isn’t a huge amount the Vision Pro can’t do now or could do better in the future.
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Correct, they gave it everything they could in terms of tech and the fashion of that tech's packaging and it bombed. Even the best possible experience, produced by the most powerful tech company in the world, after a decade and billions of dollars invested, flopped when it confronted the consumer market. And there's not much it can do to improve now or in the future as they've already done pretty much everything you can do to build an HMD with today's technologies.

There is no technology path between these goggles and a spectacles form factor. This tech, the "immersive" goggles, is a dead end and money spent on it would have been better spent on inventing the technologies we need for actually acceptable form factors, or pretty much anything else you can think of, actually.