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No offense, but this thing looks like junk compared to Apple/Meta's headsets.

TuringTest 3y ago
Apples to oranges comparison (no pun intended). SimulaVR aims to be a general computing platform allowing professional "desktop like" workflow, with the performance of a high-end laptop. For what has been revealed, Vision Pro is designed towards tablet-like content consumption.
- criddell 3y ago
  > designed towards table-like content consumption I didn’t get that impression at all. You can stream your Mac display to it and at that point you have a real Unix system in AR/VR. That’s good enough for many of us. It seems that Simula is betting on people wanting to not need the external laptop and I think it’s a losing bet. There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough. The use cases where having a connection to a laptop isn’t feasible are probably the same ones where you are mostly going to do be using it somewhat passively. Doing things like working in a coffee shop will probably still be done on a laptop because who wants to be a glasshole isolating themselves from an environment wearing a ring of cameras on their head? I don’t think I’d be comfortable doing that or being around somebody I don’t know doing that.
  - LegitShady 3y ago
    You can stream existing desktops/laptops to just about any mainstream headset. The issue is the software availability for the headset itself. Apple showed specifically the ios basis of this device, not the mac basis. >There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough. It's not $3500 good enough. Its the same solution cheaper headsets use, and don't require full laptop hardware in the headset to do it.
    - criddell 3y ago
      > It’s not $3500 good enough Then it will be a failure like the HoloLens which is the same price. I’m not convinced that this category will ever be much larger than it is now.
gorjusborg 3y ago
They openly admit that they can't match Apple's polish with their current resources. Also, the SimulaVR shown is a prototype. Pretty obvious that comparing it to the Vision Pro is comparing apples and oranges at this point.

Apples to oranges comparison (no pun intended). SimulaVR aims to be a general computing platform allowing professional "desktop like" workflow, with the performance of a high-end laptop. For what has been revealed, Vision Pro is designed towards tablet-like content consumption.

criddell 3y ago
> designed towards table-like content consumption I didn’t get that impression at all. You can stream your Mac display to it and at that point you have a real Unix system in AR/VR. That’s good enough for many of us. It seems that Simula is betting on people wanting to not need the external laptop and I think it’s a losing bet. There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough. The use cases where having a connection to a laptop isn’t feasible are probably the same ones where you are mostly going to do be using it somewhat passively. Doing things like working in a coffee shop will probably still be done on a laptop because who wants to be a glasshole isolating themselves from an environment wearing a ring of cameras on their head? I don’t think I’d be comfortable doing that or being around somebody I don’t know doing that.
- LegitShady 3y ago
  You can stream existing desktops/laptops to just about any mainstream headset. The issue is the software availability for the headset itself. Apple showed specifically the ios basis of this device, not the mac basis. >There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough. It's not $3500 good enough. Its the same solution cheaper headsets use, and don't require full laptop hardware in the headset to do it.
  - criddell 3y ago
    > It’s not $3500 good enough Then it will be a failure like the HoloLens which is the same price. I’m not convinced that this category will ever be much larger than it is now.

gorjusborg 3y ago

They openly admit that they can't match Apple's polish with their current resources. Also, the SimulaVR shown is a prototype. Pretty obvious that comparing it to the Vision Pro is comparing apples and oranges at this point.