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Apple Vision Pro

Featuring the new powerful M5 chip and comfortable Dual Knit Band, Apple Vision Pro seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space.

www.apple.com

 

[systemr123]

My vision got blurry like a pro when gazing upon that magnificent price.

Wonder how much the Vision Pro Max will cost

 

[rofif]

Cheaper than some of Mac computers and cheaper than high end gaming pc...
but this is just a vr gadget that will not do 90% of the things they have shown as well. it was all bullshots.
Nuts to introduce product this expensive in the inflation ridden, poor world of today.

But 100000% it will be sold out

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

lmao finally, vr will become mainstream

 

[feynoob]

Watch apple fans lining up to buy this product.

 

[rofif]

My vision got blurry like a pro when gazing upon that magnificent price.

Wonder how much the Vision Pro Max will cost

They show it used in a plane.
I don't see myself ever getting so unexcited about flying that I watch a movie

 

[Comandr]

I think this is an impressive first generation product, but it still feels like a solution looking for a problem. Being a completely new platform with a long road ahead of it to prove and establish itself, I think Vision Pro is a fascinating concept. This is clearly a product for a very specific demographic, certainly not the everyman. Wake me up in 8 years when the third generation is announced or Apple finally shows off their AR vision glasses.

 

[GrayDock]

Seriously, why the ...99 at the end? People that will buy this count money in the thousands, not ones...
And...

 

[Captain Toad]

"Just how deep does our brainwashed brand loyalty run?"
"Only one way to find out."

 

[Moses85]

 

[Fess]

Cool tech, no doubt, but that price is plain insanity.
How many will they realistically sell? 20k?

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

$3499

(pay attention to the "start at")

And people said the PSVR2 was expensive ! And you'll find fanboy telling 3500$ is a OK price because this and this and because it's Apple.
And look, there is a WIRE, nobody is making a drama thread yet like for the PSVR2 ?

*EDIT*: See

With all of the hardware, software, and R&D that went into this, it makes every other headset look like a toy. It's totally understandable that it'd be priced at $3500.

 

[Luigi Mario]

 

[analog_future]

The product truly looks amazing. It looks like something that we'd see coming out 10 years from now, not today.

With all of the hardware, software, and R&D that went into this, it makes every other headset look like a toy. It's totally understandable that it'd be priced at $3500.

With that said, I just don't know what is going to push consumers to feel like they NEED something like this. As cool as it looks, I think everyone's perfectly content using their normal TVs, laptops, and phones.


As others have said, it feels like a solution looking for a problem.

 

[diffusionx]

I have no idea what the prospects are of selling a $3500 AR headset is (I honestly thought they would go <$2000 but maybe its not possible). But I will say that setting it up in the ubiquitous and insanely popular Apple stores is the best way I have seen yet of showing off this tech. There is an eternal catch-22 with VR, since the beginning, where you need to see and use the tech to understand its appeal and few people are going to go out of their way to do so.

 

[Bernoulli]

Normal price for the first product
If it's successful enough the next version will be better and cheaper

 

[Lone Wolf]

Watch apple fans lining up to buy this product.

100%. Apple fanatics will put it on the Apple Credit Card, get 3% cash back and pay interest for 2 years.

 

[Portugeezer]

I must have missed the games in that extended ad.

But I won't watch again.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Watch apple fans lining up to buy this product.

They will probably sell another kidney just to prove the point

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

The gaming applications seem limited to couch on a big screen in 3D not true VR? At $3400 it's clearly targeted at Apple fans, early adopters and enterprise not mass market gaming. I guess it's between a Quest 3 and PSVR2 for me or whenever Valve goes wireless when it comes to true VR games.

 

[Captain Toad]

VR is awesome tech for gaming, but it doesn't matter how good the hardware is until the games are there.

 

[ByWatterson]

This will sell out, but still will have an audience too limited to create a platform for mainstream games.

VR gaming is dead, man. Let it die.

 

[skybaby]

Just like the iphones!

 

[Bernoulli]

This will becomes good when it has good apps
Just like a phone is useless without all the apps on the store

 

[dem]

They're building their AR/VR development foundation. It started years ago with the AR crap. Eventually... after a few years... you will realize Apple owns the entire space. Everything will just work as it should.
Nothing out there will be comparable. If will fit your life like a glove.

Just my prediction.

 

[feynoob]

VR is awesome tech for gaming, but it doesn't matter how good the hardware is until the games are there.

Or the hub.
Anyone who does that will 50m+.

 

[Coloress_Kafka]

Gotta start somewhere. I look forward to getting the Apple Vision Basic for $999 in 3 years :_(

 

[FullMetalx117]

Day one, first legitimate headset for VR/AR

 

[mrmustard]

I'll buy when the 999 Dollar transport case is available.

 

[Banjo64]

I have no idea what the prospects are of selling a $3500 AR headset is (I honestly thought they would go <$2000 but maybe its not possible). But I will say that setting it up in the ubiquitous and insanely popular Apple stores is the best way I have seen yet of showing off this tech. There is an eternal catch-22 with VR, since the beginning, where you need to see and use the tech to understand its appeal and few people are going to go out of their way to do so.

How does that work in terms of the clean cut look of the store? I'm not shoving my head somewhere where 1000 other people have shoved their greasy head inside in that day alone.

 

[darrylgorn]

I fully endorse the song in the commercial.

 

[analog_future]

$3499

And people said the PSVR2 was expensive ! And you'll find fanboy telling it's an ok price.

*EDIT*: See

I don't even care for Apple one way or the other but you're burying your head in the sand if you can't see that this product is in a whole different stratosphere than PSVR 2. It's not even really the same product category.

It's got it's own extremely high end processor, it's own fully fledged OS, an external curved OLED display, greater-than-4k internal displays for each eye, etc.. etc.. etc..

They've thought of literally everything.

 

[Slothbeingg]

Where does that cable connect to? Your butt?

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

I still do not know, this can work as VR or it is AR only?

 

[rofif]

BUT GUYS !!!!
"To buy a tv, surround system, go to cinema, go outside, to live all adds to about the same as this shit"

 

[saintjules]

People in here be like, 'wait for a sale'

 

[ripjoel]

 

[Thirty7ven]

WOW that shit looks insane

 

[PSYGN]

Calculator App on iPad
Helpful Siri, AI advancements
Expensive ass VR headset that no one will buy

 

[fermcr]

Apple fanboys will turn this in a successful device.

 

[marjo]

I don't even care for Apple one way or the other but you're burying your head in the sand if you can't see that this product is in a whole different stratosphere than PSVR 2. It's not even really the same product category.

It's got it's own extremely high end processor, it's own fully fledged OS, an external curved OLED display, greater-than-4k internal displays for each eye, etc.. etc.. etc..

They've thought of literally everything.

As someone who's been into VR for a number of years, these seem like evolutionarily improvements at best versus something like a Quest 3. Absolutely not 'a new product category', and not at all worth the exorbitant price IMO.

 

[Thabass]

It seems like really cool tech and I do want one, but not at $3500 lol

 

[Macaron]

People so fixated on the price. Meanwhile, Apple getting involved is a HUGE step forward for the future of VR.

 

[Alex Anderson]

This thing is worth more than me.

 

[March Climber]

$349

$3499

 

[FunkMiller]

People so fixated on the price. Meanwhile, Apple getting involved is a HUGE step forward for the future of VR.

So much so that they were fucking terrified to even say VR the whole show...

 

[BootsLoader]

 

[DryvBy]

Watch apple fans lining up to buy this product.

I already know one that's hyped. Insane.

Edit: I see this thread has some nice Apple fans too lol

 

[Luigi Mario]

Where does that cable connect to? Your butt?

Yes, your body is the battery. It works just like it did in the Matrix films.

 

[mortal]

Some of the tech that was showcased was pretty cool.

I understand the psychological significance of viewing another person's eyes during communication, but that eye window feature just looks... unsettling.
For me, it does the literal opposite of its intended purpose lol.

I'd imagine it's kind of uncanny to observe IRL. Plus it just makes the device that much more expensive. I could do without it tbh.

Battery life is a joke, obviously.