A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset

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The sad part is that they're going to buy the next apple gimmick anyway

Yeah, the only way these were going to become relevant was if they were integrated into the society as a whole, and that can't be done with a 3000 dollar item.

I don’t think these were released with the goal of relevance. I think they were released for “innovators” to get their hands on and to gage interest for broader implementation.
Basic product lifecycle like I don’t even think these are for the “early adopters” these are for the “innovators” or what ever the first part of product lifecycle is.

It's the same story for every VR headset. Buy it, be blown away for a few hours/days, then never touch it again. I did it too, with Oculus Go. The only exception is for gaming, but Apple just doesn't know anything about that. Honestly I'm blown away that they sold as many as they did, but that's Apple marketing for ya, I guess.

It was insanely overpriced, and so obviously intentionally so. Sell a headset that gets plugged into a Macbook for computation and you'll sell quite a few more. It'll be lighter, cheaper, smaller, more comfortable, and easier to integrate into your workflow. But of course that would break Apple's cardinal rule of making 2 products capable of the same tasks. Same reason why your MacBook will never have a touchscreen and your iPad will never drive 2 displays or run MacOS apps or why they stopped making the 12" Macbook.

So crazy that you can't have as many general computing virtual display as you want in an apple vision.
Apple users don't understand computerd beyond "the tool to do a task they need done." So they don't realise how roped in this they are in this system that constantly wants to curtail them.
- Everything is fine in the Apple ecosystem as long as you want to do something The Apple Way™.
  As soon as you want to do something differently to how Apple decrees it should be done, then you're screwed.
- I didn't realize that was a thing

VR will never become mass market until it no longer means wearing a big silly looking thing on your head. Source: Used to work for a game developer who tried (and like so many... failed) to make their own headset during the VR goldrush in the 90's. Also around that time bought a Forte VFX (screaming headache and eyestrain) headset and can't believe no one's managed to shrink the technology down to a pair a glasses yet in any kind of successful way. Kind of excited by the Bigscreen Beyond 2 though. Still a long way to go. I think the test is simple. Can I wear your VR technology out in public (so no wires, tiny form factor, battery life on par with a smartphone) and not look like I want to be robbed immediately?

Sorry for being so salty about this. It's just bitterness from being a ridiculously early adopter lol

VR will never become mass market until it no longer means wearing a big silly looking thing on your head.
There are various types of HMDs that look more or less like glasses, though those aren't really VR-oriented.
For myself, I don't care what it looks like to other people.
But what I want is a monitor replacement. Something that is at least as good as a monitor. Comfort, resolution, clarity, ability to be worn all day, etc. Give me a better monitor, and I will buy that.
Existing headsets aren't there.
They can provide a wider field of view than a monitor, which is good for filling peripheral view in some games. But they aren't something that people would use as a general monitor replacement. You don't want to code or web-browse all day on them.
If it's not a monitor replacement, then it's a toy, a specialized accessory for a small number of games. I'm not saying that that isn't worthwhile to some people. If I were a hardcore flight-simmer, a genre that is a good match for the technology, that might be worth it to me. But it's definitely not a no-brainer, and it's something that I'd just pull out on specific occasions to enhance a game.
I have a flightstick, throttle, and pedals, and those are, frankly, probably larger wins for flight-simming, and I rarely wind up pulling those out. They mostly gather dust.
Out of curiosity are you familiar with the meta glasses? If you have, what are your thoughts about those?
I don't think they're VR, I think they're AR? nonetheless, what do you think?
- I'm not too familiar with those. Top of my head reaction to Googling them just now is that I can't stop feeling there's something a little sneaky about them. "What? these totally normal looking yet suspiciously thick sunglasses? No no no... I'm totally not filming you right now".
  I think if it's a VR contraption then it needs to be honest about it which is why the Beyond 2 seem to be going in the right direction. I just re-watched a review of the B2 and saw that it only weighs 110g (less than a peach) which is so much less than the Apple Vision Pro at 600g. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on how the VR industry decides to compete with the B2.
There's also a substantial part of the population who can't use VR right now, because of motion sickness. I don't see VR really taking off until that is solved.

Juicero-ass headset.

I brought it out over the weekend to check out the immersive content that they’ve released since a year ago. I put it back in a drawer after about fifteen minutes. I would take it on vacation for content and for the laptop display feature, but that’s about it.

I tried the in-store demo and was blown away, but even after that short period I wasn’t sold over how isolated the entire experience is. The day may never arrive, but I can wait until these fit on a regular pair of glasses.

I agree with the glasses component. This tech will be so cool once it can integrate with what I already wear daily. Just like the watch.

This reminds me of a project I saw some years ago, it was AR glasses with just a monochrome display that would project into the eye itself, adjusted to the individual user by an optometrist.

It was less ambitious than the other projects at the time on what it would be able to display, but this had the distinct advantage of being extremely power efficient and lightweight, allowing the system to fit into a normal glasses form factor.

It also looked cyberpunk as fuck with the user having a glowing red dot in one of his eyes during use, at least to everyone else. I tried a bunch of times to google for what ever has become of it, because I was very interested in the concept as a wearer of glasses.

Does anyone by any chance know what I'm talking about? This would have been in the early to mid 2010s.

TLDR: Want my cyberpunk glasses. Pls halp

These things had such little impact I had entirely forgotten they were a thing that happened.

I don’t get it when people say that their technical gadgets are “collecting dust”. My house is full of consoles, PCs, routers and musical equipment that are in-use that are constantly covered in dust due to the static charge from being turned on.

Because the apple headset was a hype item, not a real attempt at really anything. I used one in an hour long product demo in a store, and it was a cool proof of concept, but absolutely had zero substance.
I'm all for VR, but I am REALLY hard on things I like. And it had GAPING flaws.
The only way VR as it is now is going to break into mainstream is if it's comfortable, convenient, useful, and freeing.
Meaning, there needs to be basically no hurdle to putting it on, robust and usable in many circumstances, ACTUALLY has purpose that replaces or comes to par with existing tech and actually solves real problems, and you can pirate and watch porn with it, with privacy at every step of the way.
New tech can't be WORSE than current tech.
But a VR headset wouldn’t if it were used. It’s just a saying anyways.

Well yeah, no shit. No developer is going to make programs for a product with such a tiny user base unless they can be paid by the hardware developer.

Damn has it been a year?

Called it