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Thoughts on the upcoming Apple Vision Pro?

I don't expect it to see well, even as a niche product or devkits. I do expect modest success for a future general consumer device that cracks the ~1000 barrier, even if it makes some compromises.

The price obviously kills most of my interest, as does the reluctance to embrace its VR capabilities, or provide peripherals that do more than hand tracking (as impressive and useful as that is). Turns out that despite being a VR evangelist since the Oculus CK1 days, my Quest 2 mostly collects dust, I'm simply too lazy to play much in VR, when I'm not concerned about tripping over and dying because of my inquisitive dogs. At this point, I'm holding out for a real BCI that just reads my intent and converts into actions, no need to move any actual muscles or use peripherals, how quaint. Sadly this seems like it's at least 2 or 3 years out, it's a bit awkward that full-immersion VR might well show up after the Singularity is unfolding, but I don't set the timetables for our cyberpunk weirdtopia.

My Oculus CV1 isn't collecting dust only because I've put it back in its box. Mostly because it's a heavy wired contraption that I had to order custom lens inserts for that has the user experience of looking through a View-Master built into a motorcycle helmet.

If Apple can solve the FOV (at least my FOV in glasses, they might as well use ambient lighting for anything past 100 degrees) and clarity issues (no screen door effect) then I'll wait for the inevitable clones.

The CV1 is positively ancient, the Quest 3 has a very sharp screen with minimal screen door, and it's cheap compared to the alternatives. I run my Quest 2 wired, and it's not a hassle, likely the same for the 3 or you could use Airlink.

I could get an RTX 3090 for the price of a Quest 3 here. Or a 4K 32" 240Hz display. Or a used Aeron chair

Hmm, unless you have a beastly card the display is going to be wasted, but sure, as you can see I'm hardly most zealous VR evangelist around when I just said I'm too lazy to use it!

I have a 1080 Ti. Almost seven years old and still better than 4060. Super happy to have snapped it up during a Bitcoin slump.

A very respectable card, one of the best Nvidia ever made! Just don't hook it up to a 4k high refresh rate monitor if you don't want the poor thing to have an aneurysm haha.

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