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I believe in the potential of this product. Having a quest 1 that use still to this day, I believe very strongly that Apple will make this work. People talk ab
by ChildOfChaos 3y ago
I believe in the potential of this product. Having a quest 1 that use still to this day, I believe very strongly that Apple will make this work.
People talk about use cases, but there are quite a few. VR/AR is going to be fantastic for home fitness and Apple already have a fitness subscription, pair that with a watch for stats etc and this really will be a great device for that. Also exactly what apple loves at the moment, requires two products and a subscription in the apple eco system, great to getting people locked in.
I think AR/VR as long as they can get it comfortable will replace screens and the TV, why have a TV in the house, when you can put on a headset and be at the cinema? Without it taking up the space of a TV and being something you can take with you anywhere, like a hotel etc. There were rumours for so long that Apple were working on an actual TV, I think what actually happened, is they will release the device that will replace it.
All that needs to be done, is for someone to make all this work together and you have got a killer product, so i wouldn't write Apple off just because Meta have done a bad job with trying to sell the metaverse vision to everyone. I don't think Meta were stupid for pursing this, the current products are just half baked and badly executed, but Apple is in the position to do this right. This was the talk of the tech world not too long ago, before AI came and took over everything, but I believe Apple is going to put it firmly back on the map in a few weeks when they drop this. What Apple does, the world listens.
This will be expensive and have a lot of flaws, but any generation shifting product that Apple has released has been like that, just wait a few years down the line and see where it goes.
- dgellow 3y agoYou can watch the TV with your friends and family, you cannot do this with a VR headset.
- MikusR 3y agoYou can. And you don't even have to be on the same continent.
- xeromal 3y agoI wonder if AR/VR development will find a way to help a solid portion of the race who develops motion sickness when wearing the headset.
- musictubes 3y agoI have thought that being able to join a live event like a baseball or basketball game would be the killer feature for VR. I’ve come around to that not being a great experience because you’d basically be going t the game by yourself. On the other hand, Apple’s bread and butter is one user one device. The question is will Apple lead the way for “killer app” or rely on third part developers?
- oezi 3y agoDoing any fitness activity under sweaty VR googles is a fucking pain. None of the display tech is providing sufficient FPS to allow any sort of jittery sports movement without causing people to be sick. Watching TV in VR also is highly uncomfortable because you can't relax your head due to the weight (and again it is uncomfortably hot). Unless you are on an airplane it doesn't make any sense. The only other advantage is privacy. The only hope this has is if apple uses insane camera tech to do video pass through VR in such a low latency that this device can beat Hololens for AR applications.