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So, how's it going, minority of folks who said this product was the second coming of christ? Still happy you purchased $3500 of r&d for apple?

Makes sense, its user base is extremely small and the tech still has a ways to go before it's more accessible and practical. In other words, the headset needs to much lighter, smaller, and more comfortable in addition to being much cheaper. I think their target for their next iterations should at $1500 or less. In order to do all of those things, tech needs to progress further and batteries need to improve, which who knows how long that'll be before we get something better than lithium ion in terms of power density.

no shit, it's almost like most new apps release at launch.

Hmm, overprice a niche product that depends on apps ... who could have seen this coming?

VR needs killer apps and for the most part it would be: games, porn, media consumption, office apps.

Apple Vision Pro isn't distinguishing it enough to either attract the dev cost (which some VR companies have had to buy their own sets at launch for dev as opposed to getting dev kits early) nor enough to attract potential buyers.

I tried for a solid MONTH to get an app released but they kept rejecting it for bullshit reasons. It would have been the first of its kind but now there are so many copies of the idea on the App Store it’s not even worth it anymore. Oh and they still reject it for the same bs even though there are apps on the store that do LITERALLY the same thing.

Because it's a pile of fucking shit.

Who wants to spend over 3k on a headset you can't even game with? Let alone has hardly any app support on launch.

Until a headset is as unobtrusive as a pair of eyeglasses it will not see mass appeal, especially since we’re in a general cultural climate of being exhausted with tech bullshit.

I would surmise that in 15-25 years, Apple (or whatever company it becomes) puts out a device that does what they were trying to do with the Vision Pro, and it is adopted by society as the new standard. It would not be the first time they put out a massively expensive and wholly useless product decades ahead of its need.

Edit: oh god, what have I done! Yea, mobile + autocorrect got me good here.

Hopefully corrected version here with original below …

So my hot take since before launch has been that this will be the end of Tim Cook‘s tenure. The more they lean into the product, as it seems they will with the next model, the more likely that seems to me.

Roughly speaking, I get the feeling it’s the first wholly new product pushed by Cook. And a big flop is never good for Apple‘a brand power.

How off do you think I am?

So my hot take since before launch has been that this will be the end of Tim Cook‘s tenure. The note they mean into the product, s as it seems they are with the next model, the more likely that seems to me.

Roughly speaking, I get the feeling it’s the first wholly new product pushed by Cook. And a big flop I’d never good for Apple‘a brand power.

How off do you think I am?

There aren't a ton of good quality apps available for Meta headsets either.

I like mine a lot and there are a few games that come out every month, but it's not like a regular console.

These VR/AR stuff needs to be cheaper but more importantly comfortable like a pair of glasses. When it comes to form factor stuff like the Viture or Xreal come much closer to what I thought Apple was going to put out when they ventured into the VR/AR space.

I mean, who would buy one now that hasn't already bought one? Of course the sales have fallen off. It's not like a phone or a computer where there's a steady supply of folks who suddenly need a new one. I'm surprised that every single sale wasn't the first day.