I bought a VR headset and it’s really fun I think this was a good way for Apple to test the waters
Common_Brick_8222
I think its not the time for the AR headsets like Apple Vision Pro. If Apple makes an AR headset that can last at least 8 hours of work, costs around 1500$ (maximum), and has as much more uses than an average phone, then the AR headsets will be useful.
badgerAteMyHomework
Not news. This thing has been dead since it launched.
royalxalor
Nothing new to this! It was supposed to die.
kirbash
until they make AR eye lenses im not buying sh*t
Kvas_HardBass
What happened?
nemesit
Huh that thing has seriously amazing potential its just limited by software, people just don’t understand that software for something like this isn’t written in a week lol
DontPoopInMyPantsPlz
Are you the guy that said smartphones will die cos it has no keyboard?
LightBluepono
wait realy?
theAkke
We have one of these at our office. Used it for some time of internal app development. It has some really interesting bits to it. But i really can`t find any proper use for it. I can buy a really nice TV for home insted of this thing and share it with everyone.
reallyryan-1899
RIP to the people who wasted money on it lol.
Joebranflakes
I think where people get confused about the Vision Pro is they think it’s like an iPad, or a MacBook. But it’s as much an iPad or a MacBook as the Pro Display XDR is a consumer grade monitor. Sure Apple doesn’t do its fans any favours by advertising the capabilities of the Vision Pro which directly intersect with iPads and MacBooks. But no one who owns a tablet or a laptop needs an augmented reality headset to do all the things they already do on those devices. No the headset exists to create something entirely new while making a case for an average user to buy one. It’s the whole “if you build it they will come” idea except it’s building a user base to justify app development expenditure.
So no, the Vision Pro isn’t dead, it just was never meant to be a “successful” product.
V-Jupiter
Watch it become an obscure collectible in ten years
RaggaDruida
It made no sense as a product…
Let’s be honest, VR/AR has a limited set of usecases, the 2 main ones being ones being gaming and professional training and assistance.
And the competition has cheaper and way better products for the applications where VR and AR make sense. A special and massive difference in software support.
Did they expect to compete with the Valve Index in gaming? Valve who is THE gaming company?
Or with microsoft in professional applications? The Hololens have been out already for quite the time and all of the maintenance, CAD and training software I’ve seen is quite dependent on windows and has been for quite some time. And even then microsoft is cancelling their hardware part because it doesn’t makes sense economically for most clients, specially as cheaper alternatives are available. Still, their software ecosystem exist and is big and thriving.
And on top of that meta is selling competitors that are compatible with both gaming and professional existing ecosystems for way less. Most of the other VR/AR solutions are inter-compatible with themselves and the standard software, and most of the other companies are way better to work with and develop for.
What usecases are left? Porn? A bit overpriced for that, isn’t it? Looking like a fool in public? Well, at least there the price makes sense, amplifying the effect; but I don’t think that’s a big market.
ElectroMoe
Sometimes it pays to not be able to afford hyped products
Alauzhen
Nice try but it’s practically useless.
GrassBlade619
Overpriced, not for gaming, Apple.
I’m so shocked that it died on launch, how ever could this have happened….
Zypharium
It is a masterpiece if you look what Apple cooked with the hardware, but if “no one” is able to afford it, it will just die. AR and VR are already niches, so how are you going to succeed if not with a competitive price?
Kurbalaganta
2007 “iPhone is dead”
2010 “iPad is dead”
2015 “Apple Watch is dead”
2016 “Airpods are dead”
2024 “Vision pro is dead”
OK.
MultiMarcus
Apple knew how badly this thing would do. They just want it as a prestige project to show audience that they still have it.
MetalProfessor666
DOA
MCBuilder30140
that’s the quickest death ever seen on a tech product I think
at least Apple won a record on this
Makisisi
I hope they shift their audience and focus primarily on advancing the technology. They’re doing wonders for it and we need more competition anyway.
edmontonbane16
And in a month you’ll gave people crying about how no one is trying to develop any new tech, why aren’t we living in star wars and shit like this.
Avieshek
DOA
kontrarianin
With price tag that exceeds high end PC, sure what could go wrong? Not to mention it’s very, VERY limited usage and lack of support from developers.
Santisima_Trinidad
If the price was something like ~1500, It would have been good.
Amens
It kickstarted meta quest 3 and 2 even better even what meta did was to copy marketing strategy on their meta headsets like watching Netflix movies on the go like airports . 3500 $ or 500£ ? Even quest 3 has better and bigger FOV gazillions games and support across pc and mobile
Stoff3r
Marques brownlee used it once and that was about it.
EpicOne9147
Big L for Apple as they refused to use term AR and marketed it as a VR headset
31 Comments
Huh?
I bought a VR headset and it’s really fun I think this was a good way for Apple to test the waters
I think its not the time for the AR headsets like Apple Vision Pro. If Apple makes an AR headset that can last at least 8 hours of work, costs around 1500$ (maximum), and has as much more uses than an average phone, then the AR headsets will be useful.
Not news. This thing has been dead since it launched.
Nothing new to this! It was supposed to die.
until they make AR eye lenses im not buying sh*t
What happened?
Huh that thing has seriously amazing potential its just limited by software, people just don’t understand that software for something like this isn’t written in a week lol
Are you the guy that said smartphones will die cos it has no keyboard?
wait realy?
We have one of these at our office. Used it for some time of internal app development. It has some really interesting bits to it. But i really can`t find any proper use for it. I can buy a really nice TV for home insted of this thing and share it with everyone.
RIP to the people who wasted money on it lol.
I think where people get confused about the Vision Pro is they think it’s like an iPad, or a MacBook. But it’s as much an iPad or a MacBook as the Pro Display XDR is a consumer grade monitor. Sure Apple doesn’t do its fans any favours by advertising the capabilities of the Vision Pro which directly intersect with iPads and MacBooks. But no one who owns a tablet or a laptop needs an augmented reality headset to do all the things they already do on those devices. No the headset exists to create something entirely new while making a case for an average user to buy one. It’s the whole “if you build it they will come” idea except it’s building a user base to justify app development expenditure.
So no, the Vision Pro isn’t dead, it just was never meant to be a “successful” product.
Watch it become an obscure collectible in ten years
It made no sense as a product…
Let’s be honest, VR/AR has a limited set of usecases, the 2 main ones being ones being gaming and professional training and assistance.
And the competition has cheaper and way better products for the applications where VR and AR make sense. A special and massive difference in software support.
Did they expect to compete with the Valve Index in gaming? Valve who is THE gaming company?
Or with microsoft in professional applications? The Hololens have been out already for quite the time and all of the maintenance, CAD and training software I’ve seen is quite dependent on windows and has been for quite some time. And even then microsoft is cancelling their hardware part because it doesn’t makes sense economically for most clients, specially as cheaper alternatives are available. Still, their software ecosystem exist and is big and thriving.
And on top of that meta is selling competitors that are compatible with both gaming and professional existing ecosystems for way less. Most of the other VR/AR solutions are inter-compatible with themselves and the standard software, and most of the other companies are way better to work with and develop for.
What usecases are left? Porn? A bit overpriced for that, isn’t it? Looking like a fool in public? Well, at least there the price makes sense, amplifying the effect; but I don’t think that’s a big market.
Sometimes it pays to not be able to afford hyped products
Nice try but it’s practically useless.
Overpriced, not for gaming, Apple.
I’m so shocked that it died on launch, how ever could this have happened….
It is a masterpiece if you look what Apple cooked with the hardware, but if “no one” is able to afford it, it will just die. AR and VR are already niches, so how are you going to succeed if not with a competitive price?
2007 “iPhone is dead”
2010 “iPad is dead”
2015 “Apple Watch is dead”
2016 “Airpods are dead”
2024 “Vision pro is dead”
OK.
Apple knew how badly this thing would do. They just want it as a prestige project to show audience that they still have it.
DOA
that’s the quickest death ever seen on a tech product I think
at least Apple won a record on this
I hope they shift their audience and focus primarily on advancing the technology. They’re doing wonders for it and we need more competition anyway.
And in a month you’ll gave people crying about how no one is trying to develop any new tech, why aren’t we living in star wars and shit like this.
DOA
With price tag that exceeds high end PC, sure what could go wrong? Not to mention it’s very, VERY limited usage and lack of support from developers.
If the price was something like ~1500, It would have been good.
It kickstarted meta quest 3 and 2 even better even what meta did was to copy marketing strategy on their meta headsets like watching Netflix movies on the go like airports . 3500 $ or 500£ ? Even quest 3 has better and bigger FOV gazillions games and support across pc and mobile
Marques brownlee used it once and that was about it.
Big L for Apple as they refused to use term AR and marketed it as a VR headset
They could’ve marked it as Apple Reality lol