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Apple expects to sell 150k units next year. I'm sure there will be a couple of popular apps, but beyond those couple, what is the financial incentive to develop for it?
Those 150k units will be purchased by some of the most desirable customers in the world. People who spend $3500 on a headset have a lot of disposable income. Perhaps enough to pay $200 for a VR game with good marketing.
Piano lessons. I’m genuinely excited for piano lessons on this thing.
I wish as a developer tool Apple would let people run Vision Pro apps on an iPhone in something like Google cardboard. It would be an awful consumer experience of course, but it would be nice just to try and get ready for the real devices.
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I'm sure there will be a thriving ecosystem of protective accessories.
Eh, I just mean it's hard to do AR if you're getting paint on the AR camera. I guess you could just keep swapping protective covers. Although it might not matter - even cracks on a camera lens affect the picture less than you'd think, because they're out of focus.
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From people who've used the device the gesture and eye tracking is flawless. But how those SDK events gets translated into UI control movement is obviously going to be dependent on each developer. And I suspect the variance in quality will be much greater than with iOS given everything is in 3D.
> But how those SDK events gets translated into UI control movement is obviously going to be dependent on each developer. And I suspect the variance in quality will be much greater than with iOS given everything is in 3D. Why is the variance any different? You're provided a tuple representing where the user is looking similar to the location of their fingers? You're provided a hook for when the user clicks (with thei…
The same thing will happen here except that you have the additional issue of learning how to efficiently render 3D assets in response to user events. After all most developers do not come from a gaming/VR background.
I wish as a developer tool Apple would let people run Vision Pro apps on an iPhone in something like Google cardboard. It would be an awful consumer experience of course, but it would be nice just to try and get ready for the real devices.
Part of the magic is the eye tracking and exterior cameras tracking hands. Without those, I don’t see how what you suggest would be very helpful
Let the user attach a pair of mouses (one for eyes, one for hand).
> Next month, Apple will open developer labs in Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo
It can be pretty janky and still be more convenient than traveling to one of six cities.
I'm very excited to see what people will be developing. The feedback from early press has been incredibly positive from just first party applications, but third party apps are where a lot of things will come up that Apple themselves likely haven't thought of.
> third party apps are where a lot of things will come up that Apple themselves likely haven't thought of. Until they sherlock it. Honestly, I'd be terrified to come up with something that became too popular in their app store.
And so you have a lot of success and then you make a lot of money during an acquisition.
Sounds like the opposite of terrifying to me.
I think it's very important for people to get out of the HN bubble when discussing this. $3500 is just way too expensive for mass customer adoption. Meta is struggling to get customers to adopt the Oculus hardware when its an order of magnitude less expensive. I can't see why _any_ developer would sink tons of money into building custom apps on this platform when there will be less than a few hundred thousand users n…
I think it's very important for people to get out of the HN bubble when discussing this. $3500 is just way too expensive for mass customer adoption. Meta is struggling to get customers to adopt the Oculus hardware when its an order of magnitude less expensive. I can't see why _any_ developer would sink tons of money into building custom apps on this platform when there will be less than a few hundred thousand users n…
"Smartphones" weren't the most dominant phone category until after the iPhone.
It's really hard to know until units start shipping though.