I live with my Dad and he was watching this on his iPad in the living room......( I lean over to have a chat)
No wait he is out like a light in the middle of the afternoon! Weird, ohhhh right that would put anyone to sleep, LOL.
This just happened. Haha, I was even asking him if he was awake and he didn't even hear. Went out for a smoke for a couple minutes, came back in and he was awake and had no idea I had been talking to him. I just thought it was funny.
I miss live presentations. I tried watching some of the Apple stuff and when they got to the software stuff I'd seen enough. I'm not an Apple guy though just thought it might be interesting to watch.
No wait he is out like a light in the middle of the afternoon! Weird, ohhhh right that would put anyone to sleep, LOL.
This just happened. Haha, I was even asking him if he was awake and he didn't even hear. Went out for a smoke for a couple minutes, came back in and he was awake and had no idea I had been talking to him. I just thought it was funny.
I miss live presentations. I tried watching some of the Apple stuff and when they got to the software stuff I'd seen enough. I'm not an Apple guy though just thought it might be interesting to watch.
Apple Vision Pro at $3500 will inadvertently help sell a lot of Meta Quest 3s at $500, later this year! 
Looks like a refined experience, though.
Samsung/Google allegedly has a device locked and loaded, and ready to compete with Apple. Let's see if they can do it just as well, for under half the price!
Looks like a refined experience, though. Samsung/Google allegedly has a device locked and loaded, and ready to compete with Apple. Let's see if they can do it just as well, for under half the price!
It's expensive, but holy mother of god, that tech inside is insane.
Yeah, the Meat Quest Pro was supposed to be their line of defense against the coming Apple headset, but even at $1500 (it's now $1K) it's not even remotely in the same ballpark. Maybe the lenses and eye tracking are there, but the display and UI is where it's going to have to take Samsung/Google to even compete, I think.
I don't know about the Pro, but I like that this allowed you to still see your surroundings.
Just watched the whole presentation. Apple nailed what VR should be. They nailed everything about it. Sure, price is a killer, but it is an amazing piece of tech that nobody is close, by generations, to what this device is capable of.
I'd like one, but not at this price. I don't care how advanced it is on paper. lol
They need killer apps….if Kojima came out wearing one and was like “yo, bruh, this s*** slaps….I’m making DS3 for this” I’d buy it closer to said release.
They nailed the passive (casual) AR/VR experience, but I think that the omission of immersive gaming (and lack of tactile controllers) will end up leading people right back to Meta.
The Meta Quest Pro has video passthrough, as does the recently announced Quest 3. Mark my words, this Apple Vision Pro is going to help sell a lot of $500 Quest 3s this fall, just out of newly found interest in a standalone mixed reality headset!... The choices they made for this next Quest now make a lot more sense, after the Apple reveal!
Yeah, this seems to have a much broader public market, where ms went to the private sector like the military or architecture/engineering industry, and every other vr set is aimed at gaming, kids or educational.
What's interesting, is that the price of the Vision Pro is the exact same as Hololens 2, but the UI, software and display are so much better on the Vision Pro. I have to wonder where Hololens 3 would be by now, of they had kept trying.
Hmmm, haven’t kept up with that, but I think it’s like an ever continuing development, their biggest contract for HoloLens is with the military. Maybe they customize it specifically for each contract?
It's a gray area. Despite people claiming that the IVAS (military version of Hololens) was canceled, it's actually being revised into a more compact unit, per US military request.
However, many are still considering Hololens 3 canceled, even though one of the founders (Alex Kipman) was denying that, before he was fired for sexual misconduct. Since that time, a lot of their mixed reality team either left or was laid off, due to budget cuts.
I do follow this as closely as possible, as an investor in some of their core technologies, but there has been radio silence in that entire division at Microsoft.
News Flash! We are already IN that dystopian future, that people want to escape. Story at 11!
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Apple might reveal a proper gaming product at its October event, and if it does I’m going to go nuts
I'll take one gaming MacBook please, Apple!
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