[F7F7F7]

The project has not been scraped or scrapped. Any outlet that reported that walked it back. It’s reportedly put on hold while they work on the glasses. Its fate might ultimately end up all the same.

I own a AVP and it’s super niche. Can’t blame Apple for putting their attention on the more wearable glasses form factor.

Also, in the year that I’ve owned my AVP I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been in full VR/immersive. And I use it everyday.

[tsimionescu]

It is obviously walked waaaayyy back from the original plans, and any hype is well and truly dead. AR/VR in general are a tech dead end that sounds cool to some sci-fi enthusiasts and has some niche entertainment applications, but that's inevitably it, every time it rears its head.

[ShinyLeftPad]

For every comment like this there's 5 from actual users who enjoy it. I know multiple people who tried it in store and want it but don't have the money. It's a product for pro developers with money to spare who will create the initial ecosystem for future casual users.

[stingraycharles]

It’s unlike Apple to be too early with something. Usually it’s the competition and they show how it should really be done.

I guess the main problem here is the price point, which will improve over time and with scale.

[0bytes]

The Newton team might disagree.

[b112]

I think the comments are a bit negative in this thread, however, Newton has nothing to do with Apple now. Or the last decade. Or the last 20 years. It's touching on 30+ years post launch now. Pointing at an "early idea" from 1993, is more the exception to the rule.

Products such as the ipod and then the iphone, were as the parent poster describes. Both ipod like devices, and the iphone were successors to other devices already on the market. It was how they were presented, packaged, and tailored that made them special and unique. Yet the launch of these devices are also in the range of two decades ago.

In the tech world, a few years is a long time let alone 20 or 30 years.

I'd say Apple is barely innovative now, and further, their 'early ideas' are long, long, long gone.

This is why it's such a shame that their products aren't as polished as they used to be. They still have a very strong capacity to do this, and I wish they would. It's a great market, and it's what a lot of people want. Take what's already on the market, as Jobs did with the iphone, or the ipod, and make it ... well, very nice to use.

Yet they seem to be stumbling here a bit, which is a shame.