1y ago

Apple cropped Vision Pro photos to remove key part

www.phonearena.com

Apple cropped photos of the Vision Pro headset to remove the battery pack, making it look less cumbersome.
Journalists were not allowed to take photos or videos of the Vision Pro's hardware during a press briefing.
Apple sees the cord from the battery pack as getting in the way of making the headset more mobile.

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apple trying to be honest challenge (impossible)
- ~~apple~~ Corporations trying to be honest challenge (impossible)
  Fixed that for you. I mean, that's literally all advertising is: rebranded corporate propaganda. Just because it's called an "advertisement" doesn't make it not "propaganda."
  
  I don't think all adverts are propaganda. For instance, someone in my village has a sign outside their house that says "EGGS FOR SALE" - that is 100% an advert, but I'm not sure you could convince me it's propaganda.
  I agree that there's a lot of overlap between advertising and corporate propaganda, but they're definitely different things.
  
  Still, we have guidelines on false advertising for a reason. Some companies "advertise" their products in a more truthful and good faith way, and others don't. There's value in calling specific incidents out
  This isn't to bash Apple or defend one of its competitors, I just think it's unproductive when we have this set of comments:
  "x did something bad"
  "yea well they all do it"
  
  literally
  Seems sus.
- Please show me a honest ad. I'll wait.
  Maybe it's the Samsung moon shot that'll fill a complete perfectly in focus moon even if you take a picture of a blurry picture of the moon?
  Or the Nokia "actually shot with phone" ads that were shot with professional cameras.
I don't think the people that they are marketing to (people who buy Apple products) care. They will buy it just because it's Apple.
- There are many, okay dozens, of us that buy what best suits our needs. Mac laptop for work management and interface, Android phone for self, Windows PC for son, and a few linux boxes for number crunching.
  
  Is the Mac laptop so you aren't tempted to touch it unless you have to work?
- They'l buy it because if they don't, they won't be admitted into apple heaven.
Of course you can't see it, if it's in their back pocket they're going to be sitting on it. Is the photographer supposed to get up their ass to get the battery pack in frame. If you uncropped the photo you would just see more of their bodies and that's completely unnecessary for something you wear on your face. Don't get me wrong I think everything about the Vision Pro is nonsense but this article is some clickbatey horse-shit.
- They showed and talked about it in the keynote too. It's not like this is some last minute surprise.
  I can't do timestamped links on mobile, but it's at 6:27: https://youtu.be/TX9qSaGXFyg
  
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Pointless article when the battery pack is in the main picture they've included! Bizarre stuff.
- Read the article, they talk about photos of journalists using it.
  
  Its clearly visible in official pictures from apple.
  Sadly i cant say the same of hyprX with the wires on their Alpha clouds.
  
  I did, hence why I mentioned it?
This is another "use a black wallpaper to hide the notch" situation. Kinda funny, but ultimately meaningless.
Clickbait… the launch video definitely discusses the battery
Some sites are just desperate for traffic, it seems.
- Right? The launch video shows the battery.
Big nothing burger.
Show the cable, don’t show the cable; no matter the outcome people are out for blood when Apple is involved.
- Show the cable, don’t show the cable; no matter the outcome people will defend the design decisions when Apple is involved.
- long past time for the shit company that is apple to die. just manufacture cheap workable alternatives.
  
  Don’t buy it… go use your spyware infested Google or Microsoft devices instead.
  
  Cheap like the $2k Samsung Galaxy Fold?
This is why VR will not be a thing yet again. Last time the problem was displays weren't compact enough and the computers weren't powerful enough. Now the problem is that batteries are too heavy and it's basically a smartphone strapped to your face.
Get back to me when you have something like a chunky pair of glasses that can overlay a 3D world onto the real one, or even replace it entirely, and last for hours and hours and hours.
Which will be never, because that much energy density would probably explode.
- Battery is weight. Putting that weight off the head and into a back pocket is imho a very acceptable solution to the weight problem.
  And for the record, VR is already “a thing”. Has been for years now. It’s mainstream, it’s on multiple platforms, and even has standalone offerings.
  “Chunky pair of glasses” already exists as a VR device, but they are highly personalized and prohibitively expensive.
  As for “it’s basically a smartphone strapped to your face” I’m not sure how you’d break away from that? A smartphone is just an ultra compact PC with a screen. A VR device like you’re talking about is… just an ultra compact PC with 2 screens and some lenses. The reason they are so similar in your mind is because they are essentially the same thing, just in a different form factor.
  
  True, but having a cable attached to a headset feels pretty un-free.
  
  Battery is weight. Putting that weight off the head and into a back pocket is imho a very acceptable solution to the weight problem.
  The screen is also a huge part of the weight issue, because it is literally a smartphone strapped to your head, plus some extra bits so your eyes can focus. It's heavy, and it's located on the front of your head. There's big foam bits touching your face all over. I could definitely not wear this for as long as I'm usually working at my desktop.
  Yes, putting the battery somewhere else is a good solution, one I've used with my Quest a bunch of times. But if I need to be plugged into a wall to do long stints with a smartphone strapped to my face, what's the advantage of that over a normal screen?
  Then again, I'm a boring old man who just wants more space for text editors and terminal windows. Maybe you kids have found something fun to do with VR.
  And for the record, VR is already “a thing”. Has been for years now. It’s mainstream, it’s on multiple platforms, and even has standalone offerings.
  VR is a "thing," yes. It is a thing gathering dust on my shelf. It's fun like Wii Sports is fun, but without the audience. It's a neat experience but the only truly useful thing I've found to do with it is to walk around the streets of a city I'm going to visit so I can orient myself. But that's hardly something I'd spend $3,500 to do.
  Hopefully Apple will find a "killer app" for VR. If I could use this thing to quickly and easily sketch out a remodeling project, I'd love it. But I haven't found anything on my Quest that can do that, but Apple knows a thing or two about killer apps. Or they did, anyway.
  “Chunky pair of glasses” already exists as a VR device, but they are highly personalized and prohibitively expensive.
  All the ones I've seen look like really ridiculously oversized ski goggles. Please link to something like this and I may change my mind.
  As for “it’s basically a smartphone strapped to your face” I’m not sure how you’d break away from that?
  Have a super miniature, high-intensity display somewhere near the front of the glasses and use mirrors to reflect it into the user's eye. It would involve incredibly complex eye tracking algorithms to prevent nausea, and that's going to cost in computing power and energy.
  Or use lasers projected onto the lenses at some kind of polarization, which might do a better job of overlaying on bright backgrounds, but suffer the same eye tracking limitation.
  Don't get me wrong, I really want VR. But I want to be in VR for hours at a time, not minutes. And that's about as long as I can stand to have a cell phone strapped to my face.
- Or stop whinging about how the hardware isn't the perfect platonic ideal that you imagined and use it when it's good enough.
  Seriously, what's the big deal about a battery pack?
  
  Because it's not useful to me if I can't wear it for a long time, both ergonomically and electrically. What I really, really want from VR is an infinite desktop, but not if I need to strap a pound of weight to my face and be plugged in constantly. I can buy a lot of monitor square footage for $3,500 and I don't need to wear them on my face.
- Plus nobody would actually want to live in the metaverse we see in media; Snowcrash, Ready Player One ect. The metaverse that's being advertised is a dystopia just like the ones we've had in media. Not to mention all the practical problems of like needing to virtually walk to the virtual store to buy shit, no way in hell is that catching on.
- Eh? The Quest has the battery built-in to the headset and lasts for hours. They could increase the battery side on that because it's pretty light as it is. Why would a battery explode because of density?
- I mean, VR is a thing still. It's just still niche at the moment. I don't think it has to be the main way to enjoy entertainment.
  That said, I'm pretty sure the glasses you want are AR, not VR (Augmented reality)
- I am starting to see more like this one. Big screen beyond
- Honestly, we talk about this thing way too much for how irrelevant it is (or should be, anyway).
  It's a ridiculously high end HMV that fixes none of the key issues and is absurdly overpriced. I don't understand why we're entertaining the issue at all.
  I mean, I understand it, it's Apple and people somehow suspend reason when it comes to them, but... well, we shouldn't. And that's all the time and thought I'm willing to spend on this dumb thing.

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