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No, they were selling the opportunity to try out your future prison cell. I would have absolutely loved the Apple Vision Pro hardware if I had had enough acces
by fxtentacle 2y ago
No, they were selling the opportunity to try out your future prison cell.
I would have absolutely loved the Apple Vision Pro hardware if I had had enough access to the actual hardware to use it how I see fit. But Apple was not even willing to grant the minimum of hardware access needed to stream SteamVR games onto the device. Every cheap chinese VR headset grants you that level of access ... but the mighty Apple refused. And that's why the thing was basically dead on arrival. It was super expensive hardware with incomplete software and NO !!! possibility for the open source community to alleviate the glaringly obvious software issues. Plus, why would any developer invest into an ecosystem where you already know the mafia is ruling and taking a 30% cut on your entire revenue? Why not invest somewhere else and pocket 30% in additional profits?
- taylodl 2y agoHow are these issues specific to the Vision Pro? With regards to StreamVR, are you saying VR gaming is the most significant use case for a VR headset and since the Vision Pro didn't include it at launch it missed the boat?
- fxtentacle 2y agoSteamVR is the most significant API for cross-platform VR development. Imagine launching a web browser without JavaScript support. It would work in theory, but be pretty useless in practice.