https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023...ike-any-other/

4K+ for each eye. Price STARTS at $3500

thats cool, but they aren't going mainstream with that til its at least $1k

Yea old people prices for a young people product. This will be a real test for Apple fanboys.

it's probably going to have a similar adoption growth, at a smaller scale, to the apple watch.

gen 1) nobody really buys it other than enthusiasts
gen 2) refined with more actual use, continued growth
gen 3) skyrockets in popularity as plenty of content/apps release for it. probably will have a SE model too


neato, i'd probably buy it at 1.5k, maybe 2k but at its current price i'll pass

what can u do with it ? playing vidya ? lmao

They can sell this **** to companies in sillicon valley for productive purposes, but its too pricey for laymen.

I would buy it for this price only if it can give me great sexual experiences, thats bc im a degenrate coomer.

Its was fun and exciting at 1000-1500 price point. At 3500 starting, **** that. Ill probably buy it on sale because I can afford it but its still a hard pillow to swallow. Maybe I buy it at costco for a month then return it if it fades off. If its actually good that It can improve my experience then Ill keep it.

Is this thing really meant for consumer use, feels like something more for professionals. It doesn't seem like it will be for gaming but more AR applications. The average jabroni just going to browse ******** and scroll tik tok on it or what

thats what the average jabroni does on most high end devices as it is. 2k powerful macbook pros are 90% used for browsing

Awesome device but they priced themselves out of the market.

Nobody is going to spend 3500 on what is basically a novel toy.

$1000? They'd sell like crazy.

$3500 is just too rich for 98%+ of the population's blood. The remaining 2% are probably not going to be that interested.

This some ready player 1 ****?(srs)

does this mean i can finally watch pron at work without people knowing?

*looks at price

Depending on how good the picture quality is for when watching movies it may be worth it. If its oled quality standards it may be worth.

Kinda this. At 1k I would scoop one. 3500? Lmao fukkin hell that's money that could be spent on such cooler toys to play with

****in hell that's a 75 inch oled and a ps5/Xbox, or a pretty fawkin nice pc build.

Thing is, I dont think they could of build this at 1k or 1.5k. They probably just going to test the market with this high end model while they develop a lesser cheaper version down the line.

Didn't applecels pay 700 dollars for a set of computer wheels?

Inb4 lul you can't afford it!!!

Can't wait till some android company rips off the technology and sells it for 10% of the price.

Look at how much sonycels are willing to pay (psvr2) to play kayak simulator. Never underestimate the fanboys LMAO.

The eye tracking thing is pretty cool but the battery life is only 2 hours, brb run out of battery before movie ends

You could phuk like 10 agency asian whores for that much. They would range anywhere from 7-9/10s

Looks like something out of an episode of Black Mirror. Fuk that.

meta quest 3 is only $500 and has two color pass through cameras.

it seems promising, because theres no controllers finally. that seems like a huge step in the right direction.

2 hour battery life? Lmao couldn't even watch Goodfellas in one sitting. Pass

You could already use your hands with Quest 2 for a while. It works pretty damn well too, tracking your every finger. You can type on a virtual keyboard. It's acually a plus that it also has controllers for gaming and for when you need haptics.

Technically, quest 2 can already do everything that was shown if you give it the apps (save for the Apple echosystem stuff like looking at your laptop), so apart from the resolution, I honestly don't see why you would get VP instead of Quest 3.

Dont be a ph aggot and compare half ass features to the Pro vision. It is well documented every gimmicky thing is done half ass, chit you would never touch twice until apple comes along and shoves it down your throat pretty boy

Just like anndroid cucks foaming at the mouth screaming they had face Id before apple while their **** tec would work 40% of the time and everyone would just deactivate the thing.

spoken like a true applecuck

This thing is going to be a flop, but its going to push the market forward.

I like the scroll wheel that allows you to bring an adjustable AR passthrough in your periphery. Its a pretty neat feature, but not a requirement I would want. I also like the lidar sensor which allows for its great hand tracking. The 4k micro oled displays are huge, but I haven't heard any details on its FOV or what type of optics the headset is using. Finally theres the CPU. Im not an apple *** so im not sure how the CPU compares to the new qualcomm chips budget vr headsets are using.

It has some redeeming qualities, but not enough to justify its price tag, its launch date, its cons, or what the competitors could put out in a competing product. Its list of cons are just way too fkn high but im sure there are some apple ***s that will eat it up.

The most lulzy con is the front facing display. They literally put a display on the front of the headset that other people can see. Huge waste of resources in terms of cost, weight, processing power, and battery life. Not only that, but that design "feature" drove them to put glass on the front of the headset lmfao. The glass and metal in the headset further adds to the weight. Next up is the battery. Its not integrated and has a two hour life. It doesnt connect to the back of the headstrap either to balance out the absurd weight. Basically going backwards in design. Competing headsets probably have batteries 1/2 the size that last 3+ hours. The headstrap also looks like it doesnt have a top loop which is another design flaw. Finally we get to ecosystem and just wtf exactly is this headset supposed to be for? Is it a media device? Why this over the bigscreen beyond headset thats 8x lighter and over 3x cheaper and more comfortable? Is it for working? Why this over a fully built out workstation? I could see a quest 2 competing with a chromebook by allowing multi displays over a single display at similar cost, but the price tag on this gets absolutely dumped on vs a $5k workstation with all peripherals like multi monitor etc included. I guess you could use it from your bed or while in the car or airplane, but thats it. Maybe if I had a $10m+ net worth and was an apple ***. Also there aren't any real application on this thing and they are counting on developers to make products for who exactly? Who is the customer here? Im not buying it because I would need a second device just to play a couple minutes on beatsaber per day. Being able to connect to your mac is cool, but it seems like the developer share for the XR industry is going to focus on the android OS that all the other headsets run on and where the market really is. Other devices are just going to steal concepts from this headset, sell for cheaper, and release better products with increasingly better software.

Good for the VR arms race, but apple probably isn't going to come out on top but the consumer and other companies will.

Being apple, maybe the AR/VR will start to be come more mainstream. I do see use cases for this type of tech.

Late last year MS said they have been working on the Hololens 3 which would be include a consumer model. I wonder how this news will change that.

At this price point and specs its out of reach or invisible to 99% of people. It will raise awareness of AR/VR, but thats about it. You might get some cool POC's from this headsets apps, but no sane developer is going to budget too much development for this headset. Apples app store is already predatory enough as it is, and the VR market isn't nearly as large as mobile. If you want to make money in VR you either get a fat azz grant from apple or you develop for android so you can be on 95% of devices. The other thing too is that the other competitors have been going for younger crowds who likely arent in the apple ecosystem. A young adult just starting to make money isn't going to scrap their gaming rig just to get into the apple ecosystem with proprietary cables and micro transactions that doesnt even really have vidya support. I hope to God the apple supremacy era is coming to an end, and this headset will be looked back at as the moment of their hubris.