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You make it sound like this is the new steam engine, but is it really that historical of a product? Nothing here strikes me as an entirely novel idea, in fact i
by picture 3y ago
You make it sound like this is the new steam engine, but is it really that historical of a product? Nothing here strikes me as an entirely novel idea, in fact it just seems like an iteration on an already pretty well developed concept
- renewiltord 3y agoNot wireless. Higher price than a Quest. Lame.
- drdaeman 3y ago> Not wireless It's supposedly an autonomous device, although from the photos it seems that there's a brick on a cable to carry around.
- renewiltord 3y agoI'm just snowcloning "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" since the comment I'm replying to seems like an unintentional snowclone of exactly what GP comment was talking about. Ignore me.
- ok_dad 3y agoIt’s everything that’s best from the VR world put in one package by Apple. The only downside to this device for VR might be if it isn’t supported by SteamVR or OpenXR. If this is a walled garden, it will be more of a niche product for professionals. If you can plug this into any PC to do VR, it’s actually quite awesome as a headset, but pretty expensive due to all the extra chips.
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- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoI will admit I was curious. I am not an Apple fanboy; quite the opposite. But if it will jailbroken the same way phones were, there is a potential there. Naturally, I would assume developers will be able do whatever they want anyway. This is the first device from Apple that.. I might consider buying if it looks like something I could use. And that is despite the crazy price.
- ok_dad 3y agoI think as a VR headset alone it's worth $1.5k due to the features it has (4k+ OLED per eye, inside-out tracking, hand tracking, etc.), so I guess the other $2k is half due to this thing being a whole iPhone on your face (basically) and then some "Apple Product Premium" for the other half, since Apple makes nice products that work well for the most part. I see it as expensive, but well worth it, assuming you could use this with regular PCVR titles, like having SteamVR or OpenXR support. If it doesn't have support for PCVR, then it's a tough sell for me, personally.
- barneysstory95 3y agoI don't think riffic suggested they know whether the impact will be significant or not. It was just a reminder to check our hubris.
- jonwinstanley 3y agoYep, you could probably describe the iPhone as an iteration on an already pretty well developed concept too
- SllX 3y agoA lot of people were even less charitable at the time.