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Apple Vision Pro VR will start at $3499.
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DenchDeckard
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Look...apple are clever....they only have to sell one to an apple fan and they have their r and d costs back.
analog_future
Banned
Sounds like something someone would've said about the iPhone 15 years ago or the Apple Watch 10 years ago.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Ill buy it
darrylgorn
Member
Shoulda been $34,999.99
ZoukGalaxy
Member
Yes, there is a permanent anal probe to check all your health statuses and remind you to go poop in case you forget since you are totally immersed in VR.
Whats your point? How they choose to market this doesn't change the fact its going to accelerate VR development.
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Member
It looks phenomenal! I have never seen something like that!
I would buy one at 2000€. Playing video games on a virtual immersive giant screen looks like nothing else!
I would buy one at 2000€. Playing video games on a virtual immersive giant screen looks like nothing else!
Cyberpunkd
Member
The way for VR to become mainstream is not to market it as a way to play games, is it this hard to understand? Nobody cares about nerds shooting robots or aliens.
MrMephistoX
Member
They really didn’t highlight how / if it actually can do fully rendered VR games with a high level of interactivity or just “immersive experiences” where you passively observe something in 3D and get to go along on rails. Would be awesome if it’s capable of doing a full game like Beat Saber or Astrobot but I feel like if that were possible they would have shown something. Does anyone know how successful Apple Arcade is? Because if it’s just that level of content I don’t think Occulus PSVR2 and Valve have much gaming competition. Every other application but gaming looks amazing though.
FunkMiller
Member
I very much doubt it. Nothing in the show was geared towards VR. It was all AR. Apple clearly want this to be a home computing system, not a VR headset. Why the fuck would VR developers choose this - which very, very few people will buy - over something like the Quest 3, which many millions will?
saintjules
Member
Cyberpunkd
Member
You think anyone except hardcore early adopters will buy a VR headset? The only way for this to become mainstream is not to sell it as a fucking gaming headset.
marjo
Member
Honest question, do you own any modern VR headsets? What, in your estimation, makes this such a leap over those? Things like the the Quest are already standalone, support markerless inside out tracking, hand gestures, etc.
The Valve Index has exceptional off ear audio, a wide FOV and supports high refresh rates. Everything here just looks like incremental improvements.
FunkMiller
Member
This is never going to be mainstream at 3499, however you sell it.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
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Thirty7ven
Banned
Apple is looking at the bigger picture here, they aren’t making a device for gamers at all.
This is just the start too.
FunkMiller
Member
Right? They literally showed nothing I can't already do on a computer or TV.
The whole point of a VR headset is to do something new... not the same old shit, only with a big fucking goonish headset strapped to your face
Im getting to old for this, i was a apple fan before it became the inthing or iphones etc, but i just dont see the point in this thing, i like vr for gaming, but do not see the point siting with a headset on to watch a movie when you can watch it in better quality on yr home tv, then apple shows all these apps which u can just pick up yr iphone or ipad and use, and that price point just makes me laugh, even meta couldnt sell there vr pro at £1500 and is now heavily discounted
X-Wing
Member
Considering it houses an M1 it has quite some processing power so fully rendered VR should be possible. Apple Arcade generates a lot of revenue and has some great games and Apple is working with publishers like Capcom to have native versions of games running on Apple silicon. Resident Evil 8 was one of the latest, during the show they also just announced Death Stranding... but it is not for hardcore gamers, and I don't hardcore gamers will ever be their target audience since they are not the ones generating the massive revenue they already make out of gaming.
darrylgorn
Member
There's still a cable that connects to another piece of clunky hardware.
Victor Omega
Member
It's like every generation of GAF says the same thing about a new apple product reveal.
And its like every generation get caught with their foot in their mouth a generation later.
And its like every generation get caught with their foot in their mouth a generation later.
Cyberpunkd
Member
You mean like an iPad that didn't do anything your iPhone couldn't?
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
I mean, most folks with apple produts tend to keep them in good condition and just sell them used for a good amount. I sold my previous generation iPad for 80% the cost of the new one.
The price is definitely a head scratcher, but then again 65" OLED TVs were $10,000 a decade ago. It's a new product commanding a premium price... Prices will eventually come down as innovation improves on it, and they are able to get to scale. They'll introduce cheaper alternatives for mass audience.
DaleinCalgary
Member
There goes my Apple stock
FunkMiller
Member
You're missing the central point here.... the big fucking googles strapped to your head. You have to sell that shit hard for people to want that kind of annoyance.
They singularly failed to do that by showing a load of AR stuff that can be done perfectly well with a PC or TV.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Right? They literally showed nothing I can't already do on a computer or TV.
The whole point of a VR headset is to do something new... not the same old shit, only with a big fucking goonish headset strapped to your face
That’s because you are thinking about videogames.
This type of AR/VR for general applications will be much much bigger than gaming VR, which continues to be a pipe dream for nerds and nerds only.
Also “nothing I can’t do on my computer”, well that’s a take alright
The AR focus is a fair point. AR/VR seem like fairly relative tech, but thats really an assumption tbh. But the biggest thing to me is that the largest company on Earth is now involved. Thats going to accelerate development across the entire AR/VR category as a whole, so long as this doesn't bomb so hard they pull out from continuing.
X-Wing
Member
It’s the right move in my opinion. There is a lot of untapped potential with this tech, limiting it to gaming would be a waste.
Luigi Mario
Member
Not surprising that the battery life is so poor, you have to regularly go back to your pod to recharge.
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hemo memo
Gold Member
But the technology will only improve and competition will surely force the price down. It is a LONG way for VR. It will only get better and smaller and cheaper.
March Climber
Member
No, this just means that in your eyes they're good at sweeping failures under the rug.
Apple's worst failures of all time, from AirPower to Bendgate to the Newton
From unforeseen glitches and lower-than-expected sales to design fails -- it doesn’t always go right for Apple.
www.cnet.com
Top 20 Biggest Failed Products of Apple in History
Apple is a trillion-dollar company with the best product offerings, but here we have listed a few failed or flop products of Apple that Apple wants you to forget.
startuptalky.com
Never fully trust anyone who tries to convince you that they always have a perfect batting average.
Setsuna Mudou
Member
lol
fuck apple
fuck apple
FunkMiller
Member
Oh yes. Everyone is going to want to stick that big stupid thing on the front of their head to send emails, watch Ted Lasso, and relive their bar mitzva.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Come on. Lmao$3499
And people said the PSVR2 was expensive ! And you'll find fanboy telling 3500$ is a OK price because this and this and because it's Apple.
And look, there is a WIRE, nobody is making a drama thread yet like for the PSVR2 ?
*EDIT*: See
The technology in here is next level stuff.
You can buy a more expensive gaming PC that does not even half as much as this. A 77” OLED is more expensive.
PSVR2 is like a fucking Fisher Price toy in comparison to this lmao. And all it does is play shitty looking generic VR games that Sony doesn’t even put its top tier studios on.
Be realistic.
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semiconscious
Member
i'll go further: it still feels like a beta of a solution looking for a problem...
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Well, they are correct. You can watch movies, take facetime, text, and code on a Mac and have multiple large screens open if you buy multiple large monitors.
But that is the thing, isn't it? You have to buy multiple monitors which can cost 500-1000 dollars depending on the quality. Then you need to buy the PC. Then you need to buy the mouse and keyboard and other accessories. With this, supposedly all you need is the headset and a cheap bluetooth keyboard. All in a small form factor.
dorkimoe
Member
to the moon
AREYOUOKAY?
Member
Unless it can teleport my entire body into the game it can get out with that price.
