I was sitting a few meters from Tim Cookand when we Apple presented at this year's WWDC what he had been working on for many years, Vision ProIt was incredible to hear with my own ears the applause, screams and emotions of all the journalists, developers, employeesanců Applu and in short everyone who is on WWDC this year. When we spent the following week around Cupertino and San Franciscoancisca, people were basically talking about nothing else. We got into an Uber and the first thing the taxi driver asked us was what we said on Vision Pro.
As soon as I returned back to Europe, as if after Vision Pro hit the ground At first I thought that the lack of interest only concerned Europe, and for a quite understandable reason, because the information about when Vision Pro start selling in Europe, Apple has not published yet. Later, however, I realized that a week after the conference, Fr Vision Pro they don't speak anywhere in the world. Articles that would write about this news are published sporadically, and the discussions under them are empty even on servers that have the same number of visits per day as we do per week.
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When the comments do appear, they usually say the same thing over and over again. People do not understand what the product is for them Vision Pro is to serve. How it can make their lives easier and why they should use it in the first place. And he doesn't even think about it yet Calculator Vision Pro in Czech republic will be miniat least 114 CZK and even in the USA the price of $990 is shocking. Apple although he showed what Vision Pro he can, but somehow he forgot to actually show what it's good for. When you buy a console, you have it for games, when you buy a camera, you have it for taking pictures, and so on. But what will you have at home? Vision Pro is something that quite understandably eludes a lot of people.
Yes, you can play a Disney movie and be transported to another planet while watching it, you can create a theater in front of you that is bigger than your entire house, or you can place several monitors around the room in a virtual environment and use them . But probably none of these things is why you would go and buy an item for more than 100 thousand crowns, no matter what a hundred thousand means to you. Apple and it's far from the first to show off its headset. If you want VR for gaming, you have the Oculus or the PS VR 2. If you want VR for education or exploring virtual worlds, there's the Meta Quest 3. No matter what you pick, you'll find a variaWith VR, you get a price very close to 1/10 of the price Vision Pro and frankly, Applu failed to show anything that should make you sit on your ass and for which you should pay 10x more than for other headsets.
It is a question of whether Steve Jobs proved to people Vision Pro sell. Whether he could handle the presentation better, and as he was wont to do, he would be able to convince us that he was Vision Pro something we simply need and must have. I personally think not. Vision Pro for there is indeed a little extra now, and I fear that it will remain so for the future, at least in the form in which we know it today.
Agreed, from that one Keynote it seemed revolutionary, but if I hadn't read the articles on LsA, I would probably completely forget that Vision Pro exists.
The fact that it is an interesting product does not matter, the question is how many people would even be willing to buy it even for half or a third of the price, let alone the price set as it is. The fact that Apple continuously reduced the number of pieces of the estimated production volume. It will be a scarce product from the beginning of the sale, then interest will wane, just as the enthusiasm of most of those who buy it will wane Vision Pro will take
But so that no one accuses me of disparaging or defaming the VR set, on the contrary, I was very interested.
I plan to buy :-)
Seriously? And is it worth it? It is overpriced approx. 115 CZK. Unfortunately, I don't earn enough for him to waste so much. For me the limit before the announcement was $000.
I was mainly interested in development.
Aside from the extra price, I was put off by:
design - rather unthought-out (weight, size, transportability)
viscera – M2 (big mistake app(lu)
History applu – almost fanatical division of individual products into categories, so this will really be a replacement for the iPad with all the negatives and without most of the positives
1st gen product - after experience with iPad for m2 after release, but beyond...I don't know
Apple would really need to get through properly financially, like the others.
And so I was intrigued. It will be good for something :-) I buy all the products Apple in the best configuration (after each release). So far always satisfied with everything. It's just a shame that not everything can be used as in the US (functions, services) and thanks to the EU, which is full of meaningless regulations, I'm afraid that Apple he did not cut us off in the future
So I understand, if you take everything, then ok. I can definitely imagine it as a home cinema when one lives alone. Then I'm very curious how it will work out with us when used as a monitor replacement (long term). For me, it would make sense as a replacement for the iPad for drawing and 3d modeling/sculpting, if one of the patents (stylus) were to prevail. Stretch the canvas on a drawing stand with a board and draw a 3D model into the space. I can hardly imagine it, but as I wrote...Apple, so I'm careful. Maybe another generation. :)
Issue Vision Pro It's strange. iPhone was a better version of the phone, Apple Watch it was a better watch. Apple Vision Pro they had, even if they were classic light glasses that didn't stand out at first glance, and they would be able to do a few things better than them iPhone. For example, video calls or navigation without having to hold the phone. They had to be as easy as possible - the calculations could easily run on the iPhone's CPU. Instead, they have become diving goggles with an enormous price tag and poor durability that people will be embarrassed to wear in public and in the workplace.
Where did you come up with the fact that they were supposed to be this and that? Apple he promised nothing.
Apple he didn't promise anything, but there is something called user expectations. And users generally expect that a product at an affordable price (not necessarily low) will deliver the value they expect and will be comfortable to use. This gimmick accomplishes absolutely none of that. It's unavailable, expensive, the experience of using it will probably be old white due to the size and weight, so... And it's not yet known how many users will use it at all due to the characteristics of their vision - here I'm really worried that the construction she is not happy
@Petr so you know who the target user group is? Interestingly.
From the point of view of the applications, it is still too early to judge who the target group will be - no one has shown much about the applications yet. It's likely that there will be professional applications where the price of the headset won't matter, but I don't expect this segment to be as massive as iPhones. But there are characteristics that it will definitely have to have: low price sensitivity, physical parameters that will allow the headset to be used (face shape, eye distance, vision parameters..., strong neck muscles,...), operation in supported countries (USA...) and so on. It's already clear that it doesn't look like a meatball.
That's why he showed it to WWDC, just like he first mentioned the M1 chips there. And that's so that developers have time to make it exactly "what it's for". So we'll see next year whether it had the desired effect, or a slap in the face....
Bullshit for me, ever since I heard that Apple plans! Too bad they didn't ask me back then, they would have saved millions :D
But that was to be expected, there have already been such attempts here.... and still not even basic VR to use….
It was originally supposed to be an AR.
He told you so. Tim Cook or Steve Jobs?
that's what the fortune teller told Kub :D, or maybe his mom :D
Cook He said everywhere he went that AR was the future. More so than VR.
I'm of the opinion that if they focus primarily on augmented reality, then they should look like those sunglasses.
I think that these attempts are great, but they still have nothing to do with real VR, as we know it from science fiction (where you are "transported/pulled" into VR in such a way that you can't distinguish it from reality), not by chance.
Having a VR desktop seems like crap to me (as a BFU, if I were, for example, a medic and studied and worked on the human body, or another specialist and studied there, simulating specific situations, then it probably makes sense. But for writing Wordprobably not much :D), but for games and movies it would definitely be TOP! If it had an acceptable price. And for those movies and games it could be quite cut down (to fit within a certain price)….
It will affect movies in the same way as 3D televisions, which were user-friendly and priced somewhere else.
Personally, I don't think it will be a real sales hit, because of the price, because of the incomprehensibility of what I would actually want it for, because of a number of other things, size, durability, weight, comfort. But mac Pro in the highest configuration it is also something that the vast majority of people will not use, do not need and even if you buy it, in three or four years it will be overtaken by a regular laptop. I can't imagine that pedestrians would walk the streets here and normally wear Vision Pro, as they normally pull out of their pockets Airpods or iPhones. But on the other hand, it has to start somewhere. I know that it's not like those virtual realities from books and movies, where you can't tell whether what you're seeing is real or not. But no one in their right mind expects this either these days. For now, glasses like these send images through our eyes, sound through our ears, and until billions of nanowires are drilled into our brains, we probably can't expect to experience who knows what. As a sound engineer, even if I record an ambisonic recording on the best available technology, I'm still disappointed with the result, because it doesn't sound like when I actually experienced it. And it won't be like that for a long time. But like the author of the article, I'm sorry that Vision Pro nobody cares. I would like it to be different, I would like it to be a boom, because the potential is just there. Me, if it will be at least a little bit useful and if I have the money, then you are Vision Pro I will buy. And maybe just because of vision problems, because I believe it can help in certain areas like little else.