No, really.
Okay, backstory for like the one person who doesn’t know: Apple today, 5 June 2023 announced their AR Goggles, the Vision Pro. VERY basic specs:
- M2 and a new dedicated sensor processing chip, the R1
- Internal display is 23M pixels, so over 4K
- No joystick needed, uses hand motions
- Has an external battery pack/can plug into external power, which looks dorky, but keeps you from wearing a battery on your head
- Uses an iris scanner to unlock ala FaceID, has secure enclave
- Display looks like a cross between Iron Man and Minority Report
- 20+ sensors including IR and LIDAR
- Announced Price is $3499
The rest, you can watch the WWDC ’23 Keynote for.
Yes, it’s expensive, although given other AR headsets, it’s not out of line. The Microsoft Hololens 2 for example, starts at $3500. I’d compare specs, but the Vision Pro doesn’t really have details yet other than the CPU/Sensor processing chip. The 850 is a good chipset but it’s not great, it’s a solidly mid SOC, and honestly, it gets smoked by the Apple M1, much less an M2. (https://cpu-benchmark.org/compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-850/apple-m1/)
That’s not to say the Hololens is a bad bit of kit. But it, like every other piece of hardware has its focus. The Vision Pro’s focus is a bit…wider.
Which is all well and good, but the TAKES. Oh my god, not sense the iPhone introduction in 2007 has there been this many bad takes. (Nothing as bad as “how will you use it with BBQ sauce on your fingers??” AS OPPOSED TO WHAT BBQ SAUCE DOES TO WEE TINY KEYS???) One of my favorites was basically:
Apple hasn’t gotten me to buy a watch, which is much cheaper, in ten years, how can it convince me to buy this?
Some idiot
It can’t. You’re never going to be an Apple customer. Move on.
Or the FOSSstans who will never buy a thing Apple sells anyways talking about how this is the END OF INNOVATION.
My brother in christ, you are complaining from outside a club you can’t get into, have no interest in trying to get into, and don’t really even know where the club is. You have no value at all to Apple. Or really, anyone else outside of your cult. It’s like a Pentacostal AG whining about the lack of Sunday School and Jesus at a Jewish temple.
“Well, i already have a VR headset that suits my needs perfectly, and is much cheaper”
Another Idiot
It’s not a VR headset, and the Oculus has nothing on this rig. Move on.
Over and over and the best part is are hoe many people who spent years arguing that Apple desktop and laptop prices shouldn’t be directly compared to a $500 PC because of massive spec differences are now using the same bad arguments as the wintel people used to. They all turned into 2000 Paul Thurrot.
Sigh
All that’s missing is a craptacular list from Don Resinger and an even more inane Rob Enderle article.
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