I feel like Apple could have foreseen this when they marketed a dev kit as a consumer product.
I think the problem is that Apple tries to take its “Pro” label on products seriously while other companies don’t. Macbook Pro/Mac Pro computers are “professional” devices separate from the “consumer” line Macbook/iMac/Mac Mini products, for example. They are meant for what they say they are. Vision Pro is presumably the same.
But “Pro” as a label has become synonymous with “Premium” in the industry and so they’re just the better devices for people with more money.
I wish I had that kind of cash to drop on something I had no immediate use for.
Pretty much the only reason I didn’t buy one.
I did the guided demo at the Apple Store and it’s a cool thing. If it were $2000 with AppleCare instead of $4000 I probably would have bought one.
I’ll see what they release for the “Air” version.
They’ll get it down eventually.
But if you look seriously at the space, the price is aggressive for what it is. You’re not getting a dumb display that’s close for $2k. And the passthrough is insane and completely unmatched. There was a tiny bit of video noise, and it marginally removes your sense of the depth of the environment, but except for the fact that you have a display strapped to your face you could almost completely ignore that it’s not the real world. Add the M2 chip and how powerful ARKit is and it’s really a lot of tech for $3500.
$3500 is a lot. It’s perfectly reasonable to wait, especially when it needs to be in developers’ hands before the app ecosystem that really leverages what it can do really gets built out. But the “Apple tax” if they weren’t sincerely trying to make it as affordable as possible (within their requirement of actually being good enough to constitute AR) is probably $5K plus.
Oh absolutely. It’s probably worth the $3500 at least. I just cannot think of a use case for myself that would justify it lol. I don’t work from home enough to claim it for work, and I can’t remote in from a Mac anyway.
And with kids, I definitely don’t have the free time to use it to watch movies or anything.
You can emulate windows or just RDP to another PC and access from there
I really want to get on the ground floor of AR apps. (Or say I am, then watch a bunch of movies and do nothing.)
I figure I probably have to at least make a chunk of the cost of the headset on a normal phone app to justify actually buying it, but AR is more fun.
Then why did they buy it to begin with? No sympathy for the Apple fan boys that buy garbage just because apples name is on it. Morons.
I dunno, the guy in the picture looks like he figured out the use case already
I bought an apple watch out of fomo because my wife had one. I could not for the life of me figure out what this fucking thing was for. Like, do I need another reminder to look at my phone? I don’t need the “health” app either. The watch “faces” are in such a walled garden limbo its fucking embarrassing. If anything, it reminds me of its limitations more than any potential. Move that feeling to something you strap to your face and lug around a tethered 2 hour battery. Do you wear it out to dinner? Or around the house to what, look at your own stuff? Is it just to watch movies on? I can’t think of a single application that is better because of it. The tech for a pilot or racecar driver or any other headsup display need is already out there. Its redundant and extremely gimicky. When you see a product like this you can tell there is panic in the R&D department.
I mean if you don’t use the health app you’ve eliminated like 90% of what the watch is for. The entire premise is a wearable biometric sensor that also functions as a direct link to your phone.
I have an ultra that I use for a ton of stuff. I originally got an SE for the better sleep tracking, but that turned into using it for workouts at which point I got a series 8. When I got into longer distance cycling (75-100 miles) the battery on that didn’t last long enough so I upped to the ultra.
