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Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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Re: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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Anyone using one? If so, what for? (please give details) I got an oculus quest 2, was blown away by it for 1-2 hours, but never really picked it up again. The games were fun but very shallow, and never tried any practical uses. Would love to use VR for working on a plane. Currently use a laptop, but my neck sometimes gets sore from looking down. VR has the potential to 10x the screen real estate and prevent having to…

I have one. I use it primarily for keeping my drawer full. That said, it's AMAZING as a home theater replacement, other than an issue with internal reflections in the optics. So in dark scenes it gets a bit annoying. If I lived in an apartment, I would absolutely use it in place of a large TV that eats up a lot of my space. Especially coupled with the airpods MAX and spatial audio. Watching a 4k 3d movie in it is min…

> That said, it's AMAZING as a home theater replacement

This seems to literally be its only killer feature.

I was hoping apple would be able to figure out what nobody else has, an actual useful everyday use for AR. But still we are just given a personal theatre, or proof of concept toy 'experience' apps.

Re: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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I expected them to give up on it. Props for not pulling a google, but I guess that isn't a high bar?

They have given up on it. This is simply a chip replacement. It's likely cheaper than keep producing M2s just for this thing.

> They have given up on it

> keep producing

Maybe it's just me, but if they keep producing it (regardless of what chip), doesn't that mean they haven't given up on it?

Re: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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Anyone using one? If so, what for? (please give details) I got an oculus quest 2, was blown away by it for 1-2 hours, but never really picked it up again. The games were fun but very shallow, and never tried any practical uses. Would love to use VR for working on a plane. Currently use a laptop, but my neck sometimes gets sore from looking down. VR has the potential to 10x the screen real estate and prevent having to…

> Would love to use VR for working on a plane. I immediately wonder how much of my carry-on allowance will be taken up by a VR headset. These things are still fairly clunky.

Meta has already released normal size smart glasses, it wont be long until all VR headsets are a relic of the past.

EDIT: I think people are misunderstanding me. I dont mean VR/AR will be dead, I maen that all devices will be normal size glasses and big chunky headsets wont exist any more.

Re: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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It's still crazy to me that they put an M5 chip in this thing, but to run Mac apps you need a Mac. Just let the face computer be a computer!

Speaking of which, Apple could probably support Mac apps on modern iPhones if you plug it into an external monitor. I assume they aren't doing it because it would cannibalize their laptop market.

Re: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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Anyone using one? If so, what for? (please give details) I got an oculus quest 2, was blown away by it for 1-2 hours, but never really picked it up again. The games were fun but very shallow, and never tried any practical uses. Would love to use VR for working on a plane. Currently use a laptop, but my neck sometimes gets sore from looking down. VR has the potential to 10x the screen real estate and prevent having to…

> Would love to use VR for working on a plane. I immediately wonder how much of my carry-on allowance will be taken up by a VR headset. These things are still fairly clunky.

Wear it and it doesn't count at all.

Re: Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

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Anyone using one? If so, what for? (please give details) I got an oculus quest 2, was blown away by it for 1-2 hours, but never really picked it up again. The games were fun but very shallow, and never tried any practical uses. Would love to use VR for working on a plane. Currently use a laptop, but my neck sometimes gets sore from looking down. VR has the potential to 10x the screen real estate and prevent having to…

I have one. I use it primarily for keeping my drawer full. That said, it's AMAZING as a home theater replacement, other than an issue with internal reflections in the optics. So in dark scenes it gets a bit annoying. If I lived in an apartment, I would absolutely use it in place of a large TV that eats up a lot of my space. Especially coupled with the airpods MAX and spatial audio. Watching a 4k 3d movie in it is min…

I have access to one for work stuff. It is just too heavy and uncomfortable for more than 30 min of using it.
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