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First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Post by zakki »

inconceivable wrote: post #29
andrewstuart wrote: post #5

At USD$3500, who is it for? And who will develop software for something with such a small user base?

is it really this difficult to project 3-5 years into the future where this thing is cheaper, more powerful, and has an app library ... because all of the actual pros bought the launch model to develop software for it in 2024? then give it a 24-36 app dev cycle and you're going to hit the adoption curve. in about 5 years. this is literally how every single thing has worked in this industry for like 50 years now. are…

I don't think Apple will bring their price down in the next 3-5 years. Just look at how their current product price. No product price goes down.

Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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7e wrote: post #57
wickedsickeune wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best software I've ever used is git and it's FOSS. The closed source alternatives don't even come close, even on niche usecases.

You should try Google and Facebook's internal SCM tools. Better than Git by miles. Git itself was a copy of the real innovator in the space, BitKeeper. Git, being free, has undercut commercial solutions, and that market is now a wasteland.

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Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Post by hhjinks »

7e wrote: post #57
wickedsickeune wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best software I've ever used is git and it's FOSS. The closed source alternatives don't even come close, even on niche usecases.

You should try Google and Facebook's internal SCM tools. Better than Git by miles. Git itself was a copy of the real innovator in the space, BitKeeper. Git, being free, has undercut commercial solutions, and that market is now a wasteland.

What makes those solutions better?

Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Post by chx »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #7
andrewstuart wrote: post #5

At USD$3500, who is it for? And who will develop software for something with such a small user base?

> At USD$3500, who is it for? Everyone. It's a laptop replacement. Realistically this "Pro" version is for early adopters. There will surely be a regular/SE/Lite version in a couple of years for the price of a MacBook Air. > And who will develop software for something with such a small user base? Everyone will, if they're smart. Being first to market on a new platform is huge, even if it will take a few years to have…

> Angry Birds became a multi-billion dollar franchise for being one of the first iPhone games.

It's sobering to think this has now been so long ago but still: this is absolutely not true. Angry Birds came out end of 2009 and games were available for more than a year by then. See top 2008 here https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/12/apple-reveals-most-do... and top 2009 here https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/12/09/the-most-popular-iph...

Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Post by pantulis »

andrewstuart wrote: post #5

At USD$3500, who is it for? And who will develop software for something with such a small user base?

> At USD$3500, who is it for?

I thought it would be absurd to be wearing these goggles in the street. Then I thought that at home it would also be strange being with the family with those things on the top of your head. I thought "This is perfect for people who live alone". And then it dawned on me: the killer app for this is p0rn.

Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Post by Demmme »

stocknoob wrote: post #73
PostOnce wrote: post #72

I don't understand why there is no AR or VR killer app for this thing. Their sales pitch was "it makes it amazing to read articles in safari"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkq9Rgoj8E&t=5410s $3500 to... look at a floating web browser? Surely they can come up with something. Give me UV/IR vision, let me see the pipes under the ground, show me how to assemble the furniture I'm looking at, give me a template to pain…

You don’t make money targeting those without money to spend. By that logic, Tesla shouldn’t be the top selling car, why would you buy them instead of a 25k Corolla? Many are willing to pay a premium for a best-in class-experience, which is what this headset is. There’s a lot, lot of disposable income in the world, but not held by the supermajority.

Car prices like Tesla are a no brainer because the market was already here.

With iphones you suddenly had a multipurpose device for relative little.

With this, we know the market and it's not strong by any means

Re: First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good

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Post by creativenolo »

trafficante wrote: post #11

It’s quite obvious that this will effectively duplicate 1440p monitors since the much lower resolution Quest Pro is (mostly) able to do so with 1080p. Hopefully it can do even better than 1440p, but honestly that might be “good enough” when comboed with multiple virtual displays. Multiple effectively-1080p virtual displays don’t really cut it on the QP, but it’s annoyingly close. My bigger concern is comfort. Ski mas…

I have been hunting for hours to get details on the field of view and pass through quality.
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