Posted on 06/06/2023 6:44:10 PM PDT by libh8er
Just what this world needs is even more non-reality.
Also, this is the lead-up to transhuman crap. Later they want to implant miniaturized versions of this stuff in your head. If you want to be as divorced as possible from the five senses God gave you, and be subject to downloaded woke updates from Apple One-World Headquarters, be sure and go this route.
In my business life, 98% of communication with business associates, employees, bankers, lawyers, title companies, sub contractors, suppliers, clients and so on is done on the computer. So, doing without one is impossible.
But, compared to a computer EXPERT, I MAY know half of my computers capabilities and MAY use half but it took YEARS to get to even get to that point.
This Vision Pro thing, similarly, will force me to get one and learn it............YUK !!!
My daughter will learn it in 5 minutes but with two kids and being a controller of a large company she doesn’t have time for ole Dad.
Also long term use of AR/VR headsets - particularly in children - has been linked to serious eyestrain and even injuries like amblyopia.
You win the thread......
From the CNBC review:
But first we had to deal with my eyeglasses. The Vision Pro isn’t large enough to fit glasses if you wear them. The solution: a system of snap-in prescription lenses. An Apple representative took my glasses and placed them on a machine that could read my prescription. By the time I got to the demo room, a customized set of lenses were waiting for me inside the Vision Pro.
So you need to visit an eye doctor so s/he can send a prescription to Apple? They are eyecare providers now too? What if you have an astigmatic correction or high diopter scrip? Bizarre.
They have been working on this type of product for many years.
The main flaw has always been that the human brain does not function well in the artificial 3D environment—supposedly folks get nasty headaches using the product after an hour or so.
We will find out soon enough is that problem has been successfully addressed.
Impressive technology to be sure. But I have a motorcycle and great writing roads all over my state. Outside of watching some TV in the evening, my free time is spent on two wheels.
I wonder if you can smoke a joint in the digital world and get high?
After 2 years of the horrid face mask I don’t want to wear a heavy eye mask. I like to have ample breathing space between my face and my computer.
Just adds pseudo mask to hang off of it.
$3500 (Apple) vs. $300 (Meta)
$3,499 is too expensive for 99% of us.
It will be a big failure.
Will change the way we interact with personal computing devices.
Gen 1 devices are always problematic, but I bet Apple will sell loads of them, regardless.
To me it’s dorky and creepy at the same time. I work in tech and have my share of gadgets. I would never want anything like that or to even try it. I get a headache just thinking about it.
“ They have priced it such that it’s the sum of all other Apple devices you were going to potentially own and then some.”.
The history of technology is first generation products are extremely expensive. Over time features and capabilities increase dramatically as competition emerges and prices fall. Consider the cost and features of of the first flat panel televisions compared to televisions today. The same for personal computers. Or cell phones. We are seeing the same trend in home security cameras.
Apple is not obsoleting its existing business today. It is introducing new technology which will evolve as early adopters explore its potential and develop new uses for it. Over time the product will die from lack of adoption (remember Apple’s Newton) or it will evolve in ways we cannot imagine today and drop in price. If it evolves, ten years from now the just introduced headset will probably look like the “brick” bag carphones of the 1980’s compared to today’s latest iPhone. In ten years the large goggles may be gone and the product look like a pair of eyeglasses. Fifty years from today the technology may be driven by a chip implanted in ones head and wired directly into the brain. Would it then enable the blind to see and the deaf to hear?
I won’t be an early adopter. However in ten years if the product has evolved into AR super eyeglasses for $1000 I might be a customer. Meanwhile I will continue using my MacBook, iPhone, and Apple watch.
I think the military would go for a version that would act as an immersive drone controller.
It would also be useful for maintenance people.
Whatever happened to Microsoft’s HoloLense which was at least a decade ahead of this and Meta?
Wow!
“We have entered a new era.”
Of high-resolution, computer-generated, interactive porn.
The main drivers for this technology will be immersive gaming and immersive interactive porn, which will merge into pornographic immersive games.
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