Is the plan to make reality so terrible for most that we need virtual reality? Because, I really don't get the appeal. Nothing is better than the real thing.
Back in the 1970s, when I worked at what became the MIT Media Lab, we were always dealing with insanely priced gadgets that are now inexpensive and nearly ubiquitous. We had a $70K (1970s dollars) speech recognition system. We had a $30K projection TV and had to send our tech guy to a special school to maintain it. I can't remember what our multi-touch screen overlay cost. We saw a demo of the first flat screen television, almost as big as a modern iPhone screen but black and white only. It wasn't available at any price. The idea was that, in the future, all of these things would be cheap or modestly priced, but someone had to figure out how to use them. That meant developing the basic software and exploring applications.
Thanks for the memories. I'm not the right market for the Vision Pro. My binocular vision is terrible, but I can see use cases.
"The Vision Pro just looks like a cool product, unlike the nerdy look of the Meta Quest product line."
Personally, I think Apple should do away with the Googly-eyes display. Frankly, that is just weird to me and pretty much ruins it.
But Apple has a formidable track record of not being the first, but the first to do something "right." They didn't have the first smartphone, but they certainly set the precedent for what a good smartphone should be.
Is the plan to make reality so terrible for most that we need virtual reality? Because, I really don't get the appeal. Nothing is better than the real thing.
I’m skeptical as well. But at least Apple seeks to “augment” reality rather than replace it.
Back in the 1970s, when I worked at what became the MIT Media Lab, we were always dealing with insanely priced gadgets that are now inexpensive and nearly ubiquitous. We had a $70K (1970s dollars) speech recognition system. We had a $30K projection TV and had to send our tech guy to a special school to maintain it. I can't remember what our multi-touch screen overlay cost. We saw a demo of the first flat screen television, almost as big as a modern iPhone screen but black and white only. It wasn't available at any price. The idea was that, in the future, all of these things would be cheap or modestly priced, but someone had to figure out how to use them. That meant developing the basic software and exploring applications.
Thanks for the memories. I'm not the right market for the Vision Pro. My binocular vision is terrible, but I can see use cases.
"The Vision Pro just looks like a cool product, unlike the nerdy look of the Meta Quest product line."
Personally, I think Apple should do away with the Googly-eyes display. Frankly, that is just weird to me and pretty much ruins it.
But Apple has a formidable track record of not being the first, but the first to do something "right." They didn't have the first smartphone, but they certainly set the precedent for what a good smartphone should be.