What's the killer app? Quest headsets have been out for years and haven't seemed to find one. Well.. besides 3d porn
Apple Vision Pro review
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#12As long as it's still gimped by not having a true productive OS like macOS, ie making everything go through the app store so as to not cannibalize Mac sales, it will be relegated as simply another form factor for the iPad. The iPad could've been a true Surface competitor, where I could run VSCode on it and compile applications natively, but instead it's just become a media consumption device for most people.
Well, you can use your mac's screen inside the vision pro, but I've read the resolution for that is weirdly low, QHD.
Meta isn't really opening up their headset, since the whole point of that adventure for them was to have their 'iphone' type kingdom.
Our best bet might just be Microsoft but they gave up on mixed reality windows, and Idk if they're really gearing up to jump into this product space.
I'm fascinated in the idea of Vision pro, not sure I'm ready to shell out for what is basically just a really great movie watching experience. I can see the movie pretty well on my 4k tv, and I'm not sure the improvement is worth the cash.
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#13I read somewhere that the FOV is only 100-110, as opposed to full immersion as seen on their marketing material.
That's what I'm reading too. But reviewers still say it's good for movie viewing.
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#14As long as it's still gimped by not having a true productive OS like macOS, ie making everything go through the app store so as to not cannibalize Mac sales, it will be relegated as simply another form factor for the iPad. The iPad could've been a true Surface competitor, where I could run VSCode on it and compile applications natively, but instead it's just become a media consumption device for most people.
But you can see your Mac (running macOS) on it. In that sense, it’s “just” a monitor, but far from Apple’s most expensive monitor.
Another comment mentions that you’re confined to the host computer’s “screen” and can’t break applications away from that rectangle. But you could imagine that being a possibility in the not-too-distant future.
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#15One of the aspects of the device that has been under-realized is that when mirroring your desktop/laptop display to the AVP, you can't break out its applications into different areas. You can't pull them away from the desktop window. This is one of those things that Apple never claimed was supported, and yet there's something about that behavior that feels like such a natural intuitive implication to the technology t…
I wouldn’t be surprised if this came in a visionOS update. On a shorter timescale it could also come in the form of third party apps, because there’s no technical limitations preventing a server app from cutting out windows on a desktop OS and sending them over a wire to a visionOS client.
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#16As long as it's still gimped by not having a true productive OS like macOS, ie making everything go through the app store so as to not cannibalize Mac sales, it will be relegated as simply another form factor for the iPad. The iPad could've been a true Surface competitor, where I could run VSCode on it and compile applications natively, but instead it's just become a media consumption device for most people.
> but instead it's just become a media consumption device for most people. I don't think that is true. I think 'most people' don't need a computer for more than what an iPad can do, and that your use case is more exceptional than common. Computers as we think of them, with a somewhat permissive operating system that let's you execute whatever you want are probably going to decrease in relevance to somewhere akin to h…
Sure, but I still see most people using iPads for media while having a MacBook for "real work," which is exactly what Apple wants, to not cannibalize their own products.
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#17That... doesn't sound all that bad, to be honest. But will it run Pycharm?
Imagining all the people getting first-degree burns on their face trying to open jetbrains applications.
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#18One of the aspects of the device that has been under-realized is that when mirroring your desktop/laptop display to the AVP, you can't break out its applications into different areas. You can't pull them away from the desktop window. This is one of those things that Apple never claimed was supported, and yet there's something about that behavior that feels like such a natural intuitive implication to the technology t…
I wouldn’t be surprised if this came in a visionOS update. On a shorter timescale it could also come in the form of third party apps, because there’s no technical limitations preventing a server app from cutting out windows on a desktop OS and sending them over a wire to a visionOS client.
There are third party apps that do this already on the Quest. I believe they can replicate Mac screens, they definitely can replicate Windows PC screens into the VR space. If Apple doesn't provide a 1st party solution I suspect someone else will soon.
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#19That... doesn't sound all that bad, to be honest. But will it run Pycharm?
No, but remote desktop solutions will be a popular app category for AVP. The developer of Virtual Desktop has announced that he intends to support visionOS, for example.
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#20What's the killer app? Quest headsets have been out for years and haven't seemed to find one. Well.. besides 3d porn
It looks like there's no killer app this time. They just bet on the fact that people will buy it because it's expensive and it's designed by Apple.