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"For weight purposes, an external battery will sit in your pocket and connect to the Vision Pro through a cable." Interesting choice... can't say I am a fan "

"For weight purposes, an external battery will sit in your pocket and connect to the Vision Pro through a cable." Interesting choice... can't say I am a fan "The headset's visionOS operating system can be controlled in a "fully 3D interface" without a handheld controller. It solely uses your eyes, hands, and voice as an interface, and the unit lets you "control the system simply by looking." An interesting decision. Hand and finger tracking has been getting really good, but for lots of applications having controllers is still helpful. Overall, seems they are targeting AR way harder than VR, which is probably smart.

fatnoah 3y ago
AR is the ultimate end game, IMHO. While these intermediate devices are products, they are steps in building competency in solving the challenges of display, power, control, and heat so that a true, glasses-based AR solution can be delivered at some point in the future. In the past, Facebook demoed wrist-based control that required only 1mm or so of hand/finger movement to control an application. Others that I've heard of have thought about putting batteries on the headset, but externalizing some processing. There's a lot going on in the space, and mixed-reality is just the stepping stone.
hnbear 3y ago
If you watched the video they said that existing peripherals will work too, including game controllers, keyboards, touchpads, etc. It’s a battery with magnetic attachment for power. I wonder how hard they’ll push having multiple batteries to change them out. Looks like a sleek large bar of soap type battery (ie. all one unit), to slip into a pocket. It looks like a nice way to implement external batteries.
- andreyk 3y ago
  yeah, by controller I was thinking VR controllers like those of oculus, which afaik are not generally compatible with other products. The battery doesn't seem too bad, but having used VR with wires I think it still wont feel the same as having no attachment at all.

fatnoah 3y ago

AR is the ultimate end game, IMHO. While these intermediate devices are products, they are steps in building competency in solving the challenges of display, power, control, and heat so that a true, glasses-based AR solution can be delivered at some point in the future. In the past, Facebook demoed wrist-based control that required only 1mm or so of hand/finger movement to control an application. Others that I've heard of have thought about putting batteries on the headset, but externalizing some processing. There's a lot going on in the space, and mixed-reality is just the stepping stone.

hnbear 3y ago

If you watched the video they said that existing peripherals will work too, including game controllers, keyboards, touchpads, etc. It’s a battery with magnetic attachment for power. I wonder how hard they’ll push having multiple batteries to change them out. Looks like a sleek large bar of soap type battery (ie. all one unit), to slip into a pocket. It looks like a nice way to implement external batteries.

andreyk 3y ago
yeah, by controller I was thinking VR controllers like those of oculus, which afaik are not generally compatible with other products. The battery doesn't seem too bad, but having used VR with wires I think it still wont feel the same as having no attachment at all.