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First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good. (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Early impressions sound like Apple may have actually pulled this off. Here’s what The Verge had to say:

Was all this made better by the wildly superior Vision Pro hardware? Without question. But was it made more compelling? I don’t know, and I’m not sure I can know with just a short time wearing the headset. I do know that wearing this thing felt oddly lonely. How do you watch a movie with other people in a Vision Pro? What if you want to collaborate with people in the room with you and people on FaceTime? What does it mean that Apple wants you to wear a headset at your child’s birthday party? There are just more questions than answers here, and some of those questions get at the very nature of what it means for our lives to be literally mediated by screens.

I definitely agree with that. I’d like to try this but I don’t know if I’d ever want one.

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[–] Phish@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel the same way. It seems crazy to me that people would wear this thing out in public. The idea of wearing it to record important moments with friends and family is a little gross to me as well. I also think the price is simply way to high. But I'm also a little further out of step with mainstream consumer culture than I once was.

There's definitely truth to "Apple people will buy anything Apple makes", though this will really put that to the test at this price. I also think most of the truly unique functionality it provides will get boring over time. A lot of this stuff can be accomplished without wearing goggles.

My biggest question is if adoption will be too slow to encourage software development. I think they'll need to drastically lower the price to get enough people to buy it that software development makes financial sense.

[–] quasimagia@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only few years ago, if you wore headphones out in public, you were a sociopath. Now, it's normal (an sad)

[–] Phish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think that's been normal a bit longer than a few years but I see your point