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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.
Will definitely go check it out at an Apple Store if it’s possible to test it when released. If it lives up to the extraordinary promises and very good reviews (and apple has a good track record of this) I expect it to cause a new arms race and quickly collapsing prices in the field.
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