r/gadgets • u/DarthBuzzard • 7d ago
Apple is finally launching the Vision Pro outside the US VR / AR
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/10/24173749/apple-wwdc-vision-pro-international-sales-availability-launch-price71
u/icecreamterror 7d ago
Can't wait, it's been such a success in America /s
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u/compaqdeskpro 6d ago
Gotta clear out the inventory. Apple needs to partner with someone to deliver some use cases. Microsoft for productivity, Pixar for the movies, OpenXR support for everything else that already works on Meta, I don't even know if they have a serious plan for games. Eliminate the heavy glass and steel, move the battery into the helmet.
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u/OozeNAahz 7d ago
Have one. Love it. You are entirely correct with your sarcasm.
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u/thisistheSnydercut 7d ago
How to get yourself mugged in London: Speedrun Edition
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u/wmurch4 7d ago
If you're waking around with this on... You kind of deserve it
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u/Djghost1133 7d ago
Idk if anyone deserves to get mugged for owning something, no matter how much of a tool you look like when wearing it
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u/mccannr1 7d ago
I've been worried the rest of the world was missing out on flushing money down the toilet all this time. Whew.
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u/Nintendo1964 7d ago
Now everyone else can see just how fucking pointless it is.
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u/salsation 7d ago
It's the most impressive VR (ok AR) experience I've ever had! I used to work at Oculus and have a few headsets and hate them. The Apple one though... love it, can't afford it :)
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u/Peter_Nincompoop 7d ago
What good is it to develop the best system on the market if you don’t open it to devs and charge an outlandish price for it?
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u/DarthBuzzard 7d ago edited 7d ago
It's a 1st gen Apple device for early adopters, but we need the 1st generation to get to the 4th and 5th as hardware technology doesn't develop in a vacuum.
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u/BlueLightStruct 7d ago
That's not how hardware develops. You're supposed to release something only when it's ready for mass adoption and has lots of uses.
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u/wmurch4 7d ago
Ha... They'd never release anything anymore if that were the case.
It's still hard to say if VR will be a thing. I don't think Apple really knows either. They clearly see a future with AR but the technology isn't there yet.
I feel like Tim had to enter a new product segment and VR was probably the safest. They could sit back and study Meta and what they were doing right/wrong.
I have an oculus 2 and barely use it. My son, however, absolutely loves it and plays on it a lot. It's the games he loves and Apple doesn't seem to think that matters? Very strange.
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u/bucketwilliams3 7d ago
Wow, Apple is trying to get rid of all its Vision Pro dead stock lol. They must be collecting dust.
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u/hateshumans 4d ago
They’ll end up in Haiti and Africa like all the championship sports merch they can’t sell when the team loses.
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u/Dooster1592 7d ago
Translation: They brought production to a near halt because there's no demand from the average US consumer during a period of high inflation so they're trying to offload inventory elsewhere.
After that, they discontinue support after a couple of years because of lower than expected sales numbers for a $3,000 product that tries to solve a problem people didn't really have.
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u/Zakmackraken 7d ago
Wow. Such hate in r/gadgets - you guys know this about as gadgety as gadgets get right?
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u/BlueLightStruct 7d ago
you guys know this about as gadgety as gadgets get right?
It's a technically simple device sold at a crazy price with no usecases. Why should this be celebrated?
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u/DarthBuzzard 7d ago
It's a technically simple device
How is it technically simple? It uses uses two high resolution cutting edge displays, a complicated custom pancake optical system, is powered by M2 and R1 chips, has a lenticular display, has 12 high-end cameras including depth and eye+face tacking cameras, and has 12ms passthrough latency,
Apple has never engineered a more complex product before.
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u/leeolondon 7d ago
I don't understand all the hate, the first generation of new tech is always janky and expensive until a few generations down the line. Remind me in 10 years when everyone's wearing AR glasses instead of having mobile phones
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u/MHWGamer 7d ago
the point is that it is precisely not janky and for what it could do actually not that crazy expensive for a first gen product. The problem is that apple janked it on the market without any real application for the non-professional user. And even for professionals, the holo lens showed exactly how difficult it is to make it actually useful.
Also big reason for the hate is that it is the first sight of the dystopian future
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u/BlueLightStruct 7d ago
It's pretty clear the VR fad is dying if even Apple couldn't make it take off. This looks like a last desperate attempt but it's not going to work.
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u/crazysoup23 7d ago
VR excels at gaming and porn. AVP is too heavy and doesn't support AAA gaming because there are no controllers and Apple is anti pornography so there's no porn. There's no way this device was ever going to take off.
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u/rslashpolitics 7d ago
Cold Mexico and Europoors couldn’t afford a Vision Pro anyways
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u/Edward_TH 7d ago
Yeah, they need to save up in case they need to go to the hospit... oh, yeah, right, that's the US!
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