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The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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but it's Apple, so they don't really lower the price

Do you just say things? https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac

Apple does worry about the reflection on their brand from selling refurbished stuff. When I worked at eBay, Apple maintained a low-profile account there to sell refurbished products. When word started getting out to the public that that account was Apple itself, selling what amounted to official products, they shut it down.

Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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It is silly to compare Quest 3 to this but I think Quest 3 has more functionality than this headset. Virtual Desktop app is already very established and FOV is better than AVP. The games alone makes it more fun device and it really doesn't break the bank.

Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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Are we anywhere close to getting that resolution at that density? I think it would require a similar form factor to what you said, but lower resolutions are probably workable. The biggest thing would likely be privacy issues, just like with Glass.

MicroLEDs will fuel the next display revolution and are smaller than some bacteria. They can eventually achieve the perfect pixel density for AR/VR while having better display characteristics than even OLEDs.

Hmm, I was hearing 5k ppi with microLED. 8k displays and cameras for a set of glasses would probably be plenty.

Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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keeping mine :) I bought it intending to return it, I use it every day. literally have dreams about operating in 3d space now (whether that's good or bad I don't know).

I like the alternative this implies of dreaming in 2D :p What’s your use case? I’d imagine the macOS display extending is wildly cool.

I have a couple of different places that I live right now because of RTO (my house, an apartment near my office, a vacation home). My house has the best desk set up, it doesn't make sense for me to reproduce it else where.

So at the apartment/vacation home I can have a desk set up as compelling through using my macbook with it. then I have a bunch of apps up in 3d space around it (teams, outlook, photos, safar/spotify, safari/tradingview). I sit on top of Haleakala in full immersion while I work now.

as I walk around the house I have different windows open, for intance at my kitchen table I have twitter and another safari browser for hackernews/googlenews.

I've also found a fun use for it is to demo it for different friends/friend groups, so I have a little demo I run them through for it taking spatial photos/videos, viewing panoramic photos, viewing spatial photos, then I show them other apps based on what I know about them, NBA app, apple tv + immersive videos, and show them fun configurations for having so many apps open.

also around the house it has mostly replaced my doom-scrolling on my phone. my eyes are getting older so cruising around stuff on my phone is getting harder/blurrier.

I mostly look at it as a replacement for my phone at home and a complimentary piece to my macbook.

still really lacking overall in apps so doing more than I would like in Safari. I really also wish there were more apps to take advantage of 3d space. like imagine health/strava where you can scroll through the run and and it has a 3d map to show you where you went, and charts of a 3d plane with all of your health metrics that you can tab through and move through/select with your fingers.

there's a lot of potential here imo.

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What on earth could intelligence have to do with using vr goggles

capacity to have the creativity to leverage the tool when no one is instructing you on best practices or pitfalls.

Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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I'm waiting on my https://visor.com which should be on par visuals wise, much better form factor (comfort), and is 1/3 the price

Just curious but have they charged your credit card for the pre-order? That makes me nervous w/ the 90-day limit to most chargebacks.

Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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keeping mine :) I bought it intending to return it, I use it every day. literally have dreams about operating in 3d space now (whether that's good or bad I don't know).

Do you wear glasses? Do one need to wear glasses when wearing this thing?

Re: The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets

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I bought the 256gb version with the intent on using it as a new and novel medium to rebuild my app building skills from conception to end after half a decade in the enterprise space. I have to say it met my expectations and for whatever gaps in UX and the featureset exist, they seem solvable and that is very exciting. Needless to say, I’m keeping mine. Influencers be damned.

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