The 1/4-ish weight, 1/4 price, smaller glasses for watching movies on a plane already exist. I can't remember the brand names, but there are a few that have been on sale longer than the MacGoggles.
I live a mostly ad-less existence, so no surprise that i've missed a thing or two.
SEO has been a parasite since inception, and as it penetrates the web deeper and deeper, more and more used to be informational sites fall to its stupidity.
The one question this story brings up for me is just how bad does Google intend to make its results? I mean, it's already on the cusp of completely useless. How much worse does it need to get?
So which one you think apple wasted more money on, Project Titanic( the car) or this one?
Apple spent $10 billion on the car project.
I don't know the NRE expenses for the AVP, but Apple spends $70B annually on R&D. It's reasonable to assume a good chunk of that was on the AVP.
EDIT: Here's a link that says they spent $20 billion to develop it. It's from a VC, and they never lie.
Do they at least chain you up and whip you while you try it?
There were no chains or whips. But an Apple sales rep sits with you and guides you through the script.
So, close enough.
There is no ability to just try stuff on your own.
But the demo is cool. You should make an appointment and go see it. It's amazing technology.
At half the price and half the weight, it'd be a huge hit.
I'll buy one eventually.
Yeah, I'm not big on tech "demos" that require A) A script and B) A tour guide to force me to stick to the script. It may be amazing technology, but my annoyance level would reach peak before I even strapped it on with all that happening.
Do they at least chain you up and whip you while you try it?
There were no chains or whips. But an Apple sales rep sits with you and guides you through the script. There is no ability to just try stuff on your own.
But the demo is cool. You should make an appointment and go see it. It's amazing technology.
At half the price and half the weight, it'd be a huge hit.
I'll buy one eventually.
When the demo first came out, I had a really short conversation with someone who thought it was really cool that went like this:
"But movies on it would be so cool! It's cheap compared to my expensive home theater!"
"Right. But how many people can watch your home theater at once?"
"Oh. Right."
That rare dude who invests in a home theater to watch alone, that's the target audience.
And that's really it. Like 3D TVs and Google Glass, but far more expensive than either, no humans want to sit around in a room with these creepy headsets on.
Now I've got one of those sci-fi dystopian scenes in my head where everybody goes to a theater, and then the pan across the audience and everybody in the place is laying back in a recliner wearing some massive headset for full immersion.
See, Apple missed the boat. They should have just sold these to theaters!
I think the "killer app" will be (mostly) full sensory immersion VR. Before that, what is the point? Obviously, that is a "maybe this century and maybe not yet" tech as a lot of fundamental research is missing.
I believe you meant "full sensory perversion." That would be the killer app that'll get it adapted.
The cheaper ones might sell well
The price is a big problem. I considered buying one but decided to wait for the next version at a (hopefully) lower price.
But another reason I decided to wait is Apple would let me try it. Dropping $3500 on a product I'm not allowed to test isn't gonna happen.
I did the in-store demo, but it is totally scripted and 100% focused on consuming content. Going off-script is a big no-no.
The demo does not include using the AVP with a keyboard and mouse or integrating with a MacBook.
I also wanted to try using the AVP while reclining or lying down. Not allowed.
Well, they certainly know how to sell to their market. "DO AS WE SAY! NOT AS YOU WANT!" Do they at least chain you up and whip you while you try it? You know, make it worth your while?
That's how it works. It's basically a WinModem. Passes the raw sampled RF to the computer, and the CPU does all the decoding.
In some special circumstances, such a non-compete would be entirely viable.
High quality AR with normal glasses has an absolute crapload of obvious applications.
Oh? I do not see any in a private setting. Industrial setting, yes, and they are used.
Does anybody have any killer app ideas?
Sell virtual "front row" tickets to NBA games. The NBA would add extra cameras and then write an application that intelligently stitches the video streams together into a real 3D image. Users could then experience something similar to sitting front row. There might be a market considering that front row NBA tickets are one of the few things that can make the Vision Pro look cheap.
Concerts too, for the most part. Heck, even the typical metal show that would have been twenty-five bucks a couple decades back is running into the mid 250s now to get gen-admin/pit tickets.
Everybody seems to think we want to have virtual meetings with these things when half of the folks don't even bother putting an avatar photo into their Teams profile, let alone turn the camera on or desire better camera interfaces.
The greatest benefit of remote meetings is not having to look at one another. The only people that want to ruin that are people that live to have meetings, and don't really see them as a function of the job.
The cheaper ones might sell well
The price is a big problem. I considered buying one but decided to wait for the next version at a (hopefully) lower price.
But another reason I decided to wait is Apple would let me try it. Dropping $3500 on a product I'm not allowed to test isn't gonna happen.
I did the in-store demo, but it is totally scripted and 100% focused on consuming content. Going off-script is a big no-no.
The demo does not include using the AVP with a keyboard and mouse or integrating with a MacBook.
I also wanted to try using the AVP while reclining or lying down. Not allowed.
"Money is the root of all money." -- the moving finger
