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Had to scroll down surprisingly far to find this comment. The iPhone moment for this space IMO is... the iPhone (sans phone) Imagine something of google glass

Had to scroll down surprisingly far to find this comment. The iPhone moment for this space IMO is... the iPhone (sans phone) Imagine something of google glass form factor tethered to a personal computing device (the size of an iPhone) for external battery and CPU. Basically Iron Man glasses. IMO glasses that can do everything a phone can, with baked in Google Lens is already a killer feature. Imagine having everything in focus auto-translated while abroad. Once you get certain social features like both visualizing the same thing I think that will be the ChatGPT moment for the space.

coffeebeqn 3y ago
The phone already has all that minus the heads up display. I wonder if anyone’s working on a glasses display that uses your phones considerable compute, networking, etc resources.
- m_mueller 3y ago
  one of their main goals was making the latency imperceptible, and from the initial hands-on reviews they've achieved it, by integrating it right down on hardware level using an RTOS for the graphics & display part. and since Apple is all about SoC's nowadays, it doesn't really make sense for them to use half of an iPhone's chip if they can as well use the CPU already next to their GPU on the same chip.
- xenolith234 3y ago
  I'm a bit surprised that the Vision Pro doesn't utilize the iPhone in some respect to offload processing, storage, battery, etc.
  - r00fus 3y ago
    They probably thought about it, but found it was too slow. Everything about Vision Pro hardware to me screams: this is the absolute cutting edge and that's what's needed to make it usable. In fact, it's barely there so we had to do something we don't like to do - preannounce for next year - because it will only be then that we can mass produce it. If you think about it, the product is essentially a MacBook that sits on your face, micronized with massive optimizations.

coffeebeqn 3y ago

The phone already has all that minus the heads up display. I wonder if anyone’s working on a glasses display that uses your phones considerable compute, networking, etc resources.

m_mueller 3y ago
one of their main goals was making the latency imperceptible, and from the initial hands-on reviews they've achieved it, by integrating it right down on hardware level using an RTOS for the graphics & display part. and since Apple is all about SoC's nowadays, it doesn't really make sense for them to use half of an iPhone's chip if they can as well use the CPU already next to their GPU on the same chip.
xenolith234 3y ago
I'm a bit surprised that the Vision Pro doesn't utilize the iPhone in some respect to offload processing, storage, battery, etc.
- r00fus 3y ago
  They probably thought about it, but found it was too slow. Everything about Vision Pro hardware to me screams: this is the absolute cutting edge and that's what's needed to make it usable. In fact, it's barely there so we had to do something we don't like to do - preannounce for next year - because it will only be then that we can mass produce it. If you think about it, the product is essentially a MacBook that sits on your face, micronized with massive optimizations.