I’m skeptical on whether this will be a hit with the audience, but at least they’re releasing something I guess. I remember when Microsoft announced HoloLens, which then fizzled out.
I’m pretty excited to see unfiltered reviews of this thing. It will be really interesting to see what apps get released and how people actually end up using it.
I can’t afford it but I am so excited for it to hit the market and hopefully spur competition and usher in more innovation and lower price options.
The tech looks really promising
There is too much wasted wealth in this world. An AR headset is a great idea. Not at that price. Anyone who is spending that much on a first-generation AR device is too rich.
It’s a big ask for an unproven platform. But then the same could be said for the original Mac, which launched in 1984 at $2500, which would be $7000+ today.
I suppose the question is will Vision Pro be the next Mac or the next Lisa.
I think it’s that expensive, because it is really hard to mass produce and so they want to reduce number of sales needed while still get the project costs back. If there one thing that apple has mastered, it is the calculation of expected number of sales depending on price. They will adjust margin accordingly and will never gift you anything. That is why the price is so high, they know there will be few buyer, but those who buy whatever they ask.
And also just 256GB of storage at that price.
They want you flying on a plane watching a bunch of movies or playing a bunch of games and give you 256GB.
Don’t forget spatial video. A minute of spatial video is approximately 130MB. 256 GB is going to fill up fast.
Just have an external hard drive hanging off your face, duh!
Readers will be available for $99
Has anyone here used a different VR headeset who also needs reading glasses? I use readers (I had laser eye surgery, which made me need reading glasses much earlier than usual). I tried the Meta Quest 3 over the holidays and was surprised to discover that I didn’t need reading glasses to see things “up close.”
Is Apple’s most yeah right price to date?
I would argue there’s a lot of cool, new, tech in this headset to justify some of the price premium. Not $3500 but certainly some of it.
The most ridiculous Apple tax is still either with the$1000 pro stand for the monitor. Or the Apple Mac Pro wheels at $700.
Oh yeah I forgot about those…
The pricing is insanely aggressive for the tech in it.
