Apple's First New Product in 10 Years.

[AJL67]

Clearly not marketing this to the every day user ... but at least $3, 499 isn't $3,500 ...

Their new VR headset, great if it was $250 I would probably get one to check it out, if it was $350 I'm need a damn good reason but there's no way in hell at this price. I'm assuming that it will end up like phones where you buy one and just pay for it monthly (not on a credit card but through the company you get it from, much like phones and watches today).

Apple just announced its first major product since 2014: The Vision Pro for $3,499

Apple announced its mixed-reality headset on Monday during its developer conference. The Vision Pro is its first major new product since 2014.

www.cnbc.com

 

[SBC]

Paint me a premature stick-in-the-mud, but I'd pay not to have "mixed-reality" in my home.

 

[sham]

As if the iphone hasnt already dissociated many from reality, apple now invests in VR

 

[brian64]

So let's see...their company logo represents the first time something screwed up the entire human race.

Must just be a coincidence.

 

[AJL67]

As if the iphone hasnt already dissociated many from reality, apple now invests in VR

They've been working on this since at least 2015 if not earlier. I have have no issue with cool VR games, my issue is it cost more than a top of the line personal computer.

Then again I'm one of those people that go to the store or to the beach and leave my phone at home, i made it through most of my life without being tied to a phone and internet and I appreciate the time in the real world without people being able to beacon me at their the drop of a dime.

 

[sham]

They've been working on this since at least 2015 if not earlier. I have have no issue with cool VR games, my issue is it cost more than a top of the line personal computer.

Then again I'm one of those people that go to the store or to the beach and leave my phone at home, i made it through most of my life without being tied to a phone and internet and I appreciate the time in the real world without people being able to beacon me at their the drop of a dime.

I dont have any issues with VR games either, seems like a logical medium for gaming at some point. I kinda worry about all the lifestyle, productivity, and media apps in VR though, I really dont want to see VR be the medium of every day mundane tasks.

 

[kcghost]

Not for me. Regular old reality is scary as hell to me. Even at $5.

 

[mingc]

Can you drive while wearing one of these?

 

[ashdigger]

I love the Apple ecosystem while despising the rest of what they offer.

 

[warren]

Damn, I travel with my iPhone but, I learned how to turn it off when it becomes burdensome. No reason to leave it home. I even turn it of at night or when I'm about to nap. And virtual reality stuff? Seems ashame, for me anyway, to miss out on reality, I've go little of it left.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Clearly not marketing this to the every day user ... but at least $3, 499 isn't $3,500 ...

Their new VR headset, great if it was $250 I would probably get one to check it out, if it was $350 I'm need a damn good reason but there's no way in hell at this price. I'm assuming that it will end up like phones where you buy one and just pay for it monthly (not on a credit card but through the company you get it from, much like phones and watches today).

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Apple just announced its first major product since 2014: The Vision Pro for $3,499

Apple announced its mixed-reality headset on Monday during its developer conference. The Vision Pro is its first major new product since 2014.

www.cnbc.com

How it plays out in our VR:

 

[dunnyboy]

I had a look at the video Apple put out about the new Vision Pro. I think it's incredible. It's not really attempting to compete with reality, it's really competing with the television and with monitors—and it's beautiful. Yes, the price is hight but, If I were single, I would get this headset instead of a television for watching TV, movies, FaceTiming, etc. It easily competes in price with the big OLED televisions and large monitors. I don't game but this has to be an excellent platform for that. One downside is that it might get uncomfortable wearing a headset for more than an hour or so and, of course, you can't share it with another person to watch a movie, etc.

 

[AJL67]

Just think of the prn!!!!!! I wonder if they come with little window squeegees? Be like the splash zone at Sea World lol

 

[sablebrush52]

I had a look at the video Apple put out about the new Vision Pro. I think it's incredible. It's not really attempting to compete with reality, it's really competing with the television and with monitors—and it's beautiful. Yes, the price is hight but, If I were single, I would get this headset instead of a television for watching TV, movies, FaceTiming, etc. It easily competes in price with the big OLED televisions and large monitors. I don't game but this has to be an excellent platform for that. One downside is that it might get uncomfortable wearing a headset for more than an hour or so and, of course, you can't share it with another person to watch a movie, etc.

New tech is always expensive at the beginning and eventually the price comes down. My first workstation ran me close to $35,000 by the time I'd maxed it's capabilities. 16mb RAM chips were $720 each, the monitor cost almost $4,000, disc storage was $2,000 per gigabyte, the Wacom graphic tablet was $3500, etc, etc. You could be ard pressed to fine a computer that limited on today's market.
But it paid for itself three times over in the first year, with kit rentals, and with jobs. Today a computer 100 time faster, with 10 times the ram, 10 times the storage, etc, etc is a quarter the cost.
This tech will come way down as competitors enter the fray, and as development costs get covered. It's the trend setters who buy the first wave, and they're happy to spend the money.

 

[AJL67]

New tech is always expensive at the beginning and eventually the price comes down. My first workstation ran me close to $35,000 by the time I'd maxed it's capabilities. 16mb RAM chips were $720 each, the monitor cost almost $4,000, disc storage was $2,000 per gigabyte, the Wacom graphic tablet was $3500, etc, etc. You could be ard pressed to fine a computer that limited on today's market.
But it paid for itself three times over in the first year, with kit rentals, and with jobs. Today a computer 100 time faster, with 10 times the ram, 10 times the storage, etc, etc is a quarter the cost.
This tech will come way down as competitors enter the fray, and as development costs get covered. It's the trend setters who buy the first wave, and they're happy to spend the money.

There is always an exception to the rule, new phones are still more expensive than their predecessors, while you can buy cheaper phones that don’t have all the bells and whistles, if you want the tip of the line you’re still going to pay too dollar for it, granted it goes back up to payment plans so ppl don’t always think about how much they are actually paying.

This is why i suspect the same thing will happen here, way more ppl will think “oh it’s only $125 a month on my phone bill through my carrier”, at least once the prices drop a bit.

 

[MattRVA]

It’s cool but something about apple seems off to me. I grew up with their computers around and really liked them in the 80’s but I’m not sure these days. They are too political for me most of the time. The price prevents me from indulging but I’m curious to see practical applications.

 

[Elric]

Apple has become an interesting company, but they make it difficult to adopt their technologies. Their computers have run CPUs from Motorola --> PowerPC --> Intel. Now, in moving to their own M chips, you can't run virtual machines anymore so that's a non-starter for me. I don't subscribe to streaming music since I have a hefty mp3 collection and iTunes is a hot mess to manage music libraries. MacOS is technically Unix, which means it adheres to file location standards and definitions, but often doesn't honor changes to them. You have to navigate their GUI for most system changes. You have to turn their mice upside down to charge them. I will say their watches are pretty cool but I'm not part of their ecosystem due to the previous reasons. Now,...the world's most expensive ski goggles.

 

[AJL67]

 

[AJL67]

So for 3500 bucks .. wait no that's 3,499, I'd hate to be reported for misinformation, you get an entire 2 hour battery life! So the "you could see experience live concerts or sporting events in your living room like never before", I'm sorry how many sporting events or concerts are less than 2 hours?

 

[mso489]

Does it matter (maybe not) that people wearing these devices look like patients in a mental health ward to people not viewing the digital program?

People can't even regularly and dependably suss out the reality before their naked eyes. Do we really need to confuse them further?

I think these devices have uses for certain purposes. Maybe pilot training or in training for certain kinds of high risk work, to walk people through the perils before they confront the actual situations.

But do we really want to be flailing through "virtual" tennis games, war zones, chess matches, and fantasy games?

We're already verging on screen addiction. People are harming themselves under the influence of sick people online.

The price will go down to about half of this cost. I hope that's still way too expensive.