Posted on 01/25/2024 9:20:47 PM PST by RandFan
Next week it comes out.
I think it's interesting and could change things.
Apple are hyping it up as their biggest product launch since iPhone.
They call it "spatial" computing.
Unfortunately I dont have a spare 4k.
What do Freepers make of it? Probably not the target audience but do you see it taking off?
(Excerpt) Read more at apple.com ...
They made the Unix shell useful for those without a technical background or not choosing to become one. The whole iPod, music store, cloud infrastructure with the Apple Store, iPhone, iPad was a huge innovatio. Breaking the carrier’s hold on phone ownership was a tremendous move forward for consumers. One could list six or seven major innovations one could tie to Apple that today we take for granted.
I could buy 3-4 computers for that price...
I hope they have buckets ready. That thing will induce motion sickness in a lot of people.
First, nothing wrong with the black guy in the commercial, except he acts overly wowed.
The white girl is not supposed to be his girlfriend, and the first photos he looks at are of a black woman.
I think they are very subtly suggesting its uses for porn.
The headset is pretty good but still a headset.
Yes and I’m very much a PC Man anyway.
Believe it or not it’s old fashioned. Most folk now on their phones and other devices.
The dinosaur and the movies look kind of cool/good with it.
I think that will be its application/use
Is that worth 3.5k? I doubt it ...
I wouldnt want to use it for porn. Can you imagine your mom or wife walking in on you with the headset on and never letting you know what they saw.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Imagine on a pitch black rainy night that you can see like it's a bright day.
I’d like to try it. If the resolution is sufficient to make a virtual multi-monitor setup, then I’d use it when coding.
I can be prone to motion sickness as well. You will not find me salmon fishing out on the ocean in a small boat on a breezy day. However, once I get used to an activity this tends to go away.
My wife and I flew hundreds of hours when we first got our Piper Cherokee airplane. We used to fly it about a thousand miles to Southern California frequently to ride the roller coasters at Magic Mountain, Disneyland, Knots Berry Farm, Universal Studios and other places. When I was a kid those types of rides used to make me sick on occasion, but with all the flying we were doing this went away.
If you had enough of an interest in using VR devices and applications, you would most likely get over your tendency toward nausea once you got used to them.
This of course has its limitations. About the same time we were frequent roller coaster riders, I went hang gliding with some friends in the mountains on a warm day. There was ample lift everywhere and I ended up thousands of feet above the launch site. I had been sucking down lots of water from my hydration pack and after a while I really had to pee badly. My harness was expensive and practically new and I did not want it smelling like urine.
I flew out over the large lake that was next to the landing area and started doing who knows tight turns in a steep spiral to lose altitude. I didn't notice the effects of this while in the air, and I still managed to do a good landing. But by the time I finally made it to the ground I was so dizzy I could barely walk and I almost vomited. And I was still queasy in the car on the way back home. Something got a little screwed up in my inner ear. It makes me a little nausea just thinking about it.
A flight simulator would be a pretty good use case for this. Also probably FPS games. For everyday stuff, not so much.
Yes, I am planning on putting together a desktop “gaming machine” with a powerful GPU to handle the load that VR generates. The complete setup will still cost less than the new Apple device and will be much more versatile.
The graphics that MSFS 2020 can generate with good equipment is phenomenal, and a whole lot cheaper than flying even your own airplane.
Most Flight Simmers use X-plane on their Macs and I am going to guess that this may also be possible one day on the Apple Vision Pro. Currently there are no flight simulators on the list of apps that you can use on it.
This limitation is why you won't find me standing in line at the Apple Store.
Fly fishing, hiking, metal detecting and hunting in the wilderness will never be subverted. I will always have my side of the mountain no matter how many gadgets I also have.
Curiously, I had no nausea problems while taking aerobatics training in a Citabria nor while flying normally. But there’s something about being still while eyes are seeing apparent motion. The incongruity goes right to my stomach. I loved extreme roller coasters but couldn’t handle “motion on a screen” type rides.
Also, on the subject of hardware to run MS2020 (or 2024), you might want to spend some quality time on topical technical forums. The increase in performance isn’t always linear with increasing cost or capability of hardware components. You will see users of even top-end hardware complaining about performance problems. I believe that optimizing the simulator is equally important to choice of hardware.
This is not the main FS2020 forum but I had it in my bookmarks:
https://premiumbuilds.com/features/microsoft-flight-simulator-2020-performance-benchmark-analysis/
Currently, I am running MSFS2020 on a Ryzen 5 2500u laptop with 16GB of RAM without a separate GPU. This does not meet the minimum requirements. It took a lot of tweaking and troubleshooting to just keep it from crashing. But now I am getting very good results at 1600x900 resolution at about 20 fps which is actually fine for me.
I am looking forward to getting a more powerful computer.
I have been prone to motion sickness in the past in certain situations. For me after a certain amount of time I have always gotten past this and have few problems after that. I already had hundreds of hours in hang gliders and ultralight aircraft before I went after my private pilots license. The winter and spring that I took lessons had a lot of bad weather... so much so that they always joked that they didn’t think the weather was bad enough for me when I showed up to rent a plane. But despite my previous experience I still got queasy quite a few times when we were got bounced around.
Think Tony Stark with his 3D holographic computer designing stuff…
Like everything thing else, this is an introduction. An expensive one one I grant you, but well done from everything else.
So were you one of those hang gliders I used to see around Mt. Si and also Lake Chelan?
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