Don’t forget for the first year or so there were no apps, no 3g, no keyboard (insert Steve Ballmer video here), was vastly overpriced and a whole bunch of other things people hammered them on.
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Apple Vision Pro AR Headset
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VR like Oculus, no, it's not going to catch on in your everyday household. However, I think VR combined with AI will for gaming. I think the main appeal is going to be interacting with AI characters. You'll be sitting there holding a controller as you do now, but with that headset on for insane graphics and realism, plus the ability to just speak and make things happen like real life. I don't know that the movement stuff is ever really going to catch on, unless it's super simplistic stuff like pulling a trigger for Call of Duty, but sitting in a gamer's chair with this thing on and your standard controller I think is the future.
These are obviously expensive and a toy for the rich like SoSH, but I think this will end up like HD televisions and come down to Earth for the rest of humanity as the technology improves and others enter the market.
I think that's right, too. I can't afford v1 of this product (I'll try and convince work to buy it for me) but I'll probably buy gen 3. But of course I saw Kojima announce Death Stranding for Mac. If he ports Death Stranding to the headset, it's gonna take an awful lot of willpower for me not to buy this.
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I was super bullish on VR for gaming until I got motion sickness using the Oculus. That shit succcked. I think the ultimate VR/AR gaming solution is probably decades away and won't involve strapping anything to your face.
The eye tracking + gesture inputs on this device sound super cool. We'll see what devs come up with.
The eye tracking + gesture inputs on this device sound super cool. We'll see what devs come up with.
My kids were on the game side of the issue immediately. I'm not buying one but half the price, double the battery life, and make the vision issues easier deal would make me look at this again.
It is not even close to decades away.
That is a crazy take. The iphone was invented less than decades ago. A lot can progress in 4-5 years. Decades isn't possible for a product that literally exists today.
A video game will always need some sort of video display, right? The display could get smaller and lighter until it's as comfortable as a pair of eyeglasses. Or the display could be summoned on demand and projected into the either. "Hey Siri, I want to play Zelda on a big screen. Give me 150" inches, fully immersive." The sunglasses are probably years away. The screen-on-demand-anywhere-you-can-think-it sounds decades away.
But video games that are not some degree of "sitting down and looking at a screen" aren't really video games. They're exercise/augmented reality.
The Vergecast podcast did a pretty solid early review of this. It sounds pretty damn cool, actually.
You'll need an appointment and a face scan to get one.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/apple-vision-pro-headset-to-launch-in-us-stores-by-appointment?sref=ExbtjcSG
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-07/apple-vision-pro-headset-to-launch-in-us-stores-by-appointment?sref=ExbtjcSG