Spatial computing is arguably incredibly useful but all depends if people feel comfortable wearing it for extended amounts of time.
The first one was a cool tech demo, i suppose this one will be more an early adopter version but i don’t see the tech being mature enough to have people stop using a laptop.
Didn’t people’s lackluster interest in the first one and the pitiful sales numbers convey that we don’t really give a shit?
Fix the Mac mirroring mode to allow floating windows/multiple displays, and make a cost reduced version that still has good resolution and is around the same price as two high-end monitors.
You could improve your desktop setup, and take your monitors with you in the go. I think there's a good usecase there. They just have to figure it out.
Personally I'm more interested to see what happens with Valve Deckard.
You must not be a Harvard MBA in charge of Apple Marketing.
I imagine this will be priced in a similar way to a flagship IPhone or a macbook, as it sounds like it has similar processing power on board.
What is the use case for something like this? Who will be buying it once the novelty wears off?
Committed fans.
I mean, what practical use does AR have?
For the everyday person, it replaces a big monitor/TV.
I know immersion yada yada, but it’s really for watching media, playing video games or taking a Pornhub break. Meta/Apple et al really missed the mark on their target audience and price points.
AR replaces all screens, buttons and interfaces with holograms. This can be a hologram with the shiny lines you see in many sci-fi, replacing laptop screens, fiddly little interfaces for gadgets, ... These things would also be great for designing stuff, teaching using proper models instead of pictures in a book.
Or it can be indistinguishable from real-life, such as having an empty paper book and have the AR glasses overlaying an e-book, such that it reads, looks, feels and smells like a classic tome. Weather predictions look like a note stuck to your door.
Then you have entertainment. That goes from table top games look like they are on the table, to running around outside casting fireballs and chain lighting.
Or it can be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.
it ~~can~~ will be an ad riddled nightmare where everything you look at and your reaction is recorded and shared by corporations.
Yeah, the first app for AR should be one that identifies people that are in the list of business persons or celebrities and show their net worth over their head like it's a reward for a game. Then watch as bespectacled grimy folks start following the rich bastards around and AR is outlawed.
I could see using it if I didn’t look like a lost ski slalom racer. Like Meta’s new glasses, but not chunky and stupid. Like, if it looked like a normal pair of glasses. Identifying people, objects, reviews by just looking at a thing, those sort of things would be handy.
Apple Vision Pro? Nah thanks.
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