Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans

Post by mcpackieh » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 5:03 PM UTC

Retric wrote: post #24

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again, the issue is development dollars. Its great that its high resolution displays, the question is if your company wants to dump hundreds of thousands of development dollars making something for the vision pro when its not clear there's a consumer market for them, or who the target market is. Sure apple could sell 100,000 anything. The question is are you going to be able to make any money developing for apple's $…

I think 3rd party developers are largely irrelevant for it’s initial success. It’s like the original iPhone, if the hardware and built in apps are compelling then people will buy it which will eventually create an ecosystem. That’s IMO why VR has largely failed, out of the box there hasn’t been a compelling reason to get one and there isn’t enough software to keep people interested.

Post by thebruce87m » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

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Waterluvian wrote: post #22

I am very pessimistic about the future of VR beyond it being super nice for niche cases. But I think there’s something fundamentally good about: 1) Apple taking a stab at it, because it’s the kind of thing where UX really matters and Apple does UX well. 2) Apple not being trapped in the “if we can’t sell a billion of them then why even bother?” mindset that so many other companies get trapped in, often because they’r…

> 2) Apple not being trapped in the “if we can’t sell a billion of them then why even bother?” mindset that so many other companies get trapped in It seems to be the opposite with folding phones. A lot of Android manufacturers releasing them, despite low sales numbers, while Apple apparently thinks: if we can’t sell a billion of them then why even bother?

Post by JohnFen » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 5:15 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #22

I am very pessimistic about the future of VR beyond it being super nice for niche cases. But I think there’s something fundamentally good about: 1) Apple taking a stab at it, because it’s the kind of thing where UX really matters and Apple does UX well. 2) Apple not being trapped in the “if we can’t sell a billion of them then why even bother?” mindset that so many other companies get trapped in, often because they’r…

Post by MBCook » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 5:17 PM UTC

taeric wrote: post #116

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The Apple stuff is for the artists or color graders or editors or whatever. That’s my understanding. The rendering farms are Linux.

I think it has largely been the artists in non movie firms, though? Prosumer and journalistic endeavors, at large. Wacom and similar setups dominate the asset creation industry.

Post by taeric » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 5:22 PM UTC

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I don't know, at this point I would still count Apple as only talking about it, too? Thing isn't released, after all. And you'd probably be surprised to know just how capable other offerings are, too. I'm a broken record, but the PS5 VR is quite impressive. Yes, you have to have a cable to hook up to the PS5, but not having a battery is an odd benefit. Not to mention the general cost difference. And my understanding…

People (admittedly access-dependent friendly people [0]) have worn it and say it roughly lines up with demoes. There is no such analogue for Meta, Nreal, etc. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFvXuyITwBI