• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        This doesn’t say that the Vision Pro is abandoned at all.

        In fact, it implies the opposite. They have paused development of a Vision Pro 2 and are instead accelerating development of their planned lower-cost headset.

        Seems to me that they will be having the Vision Pro (1st gen) as their supported flagship for longer than expected.

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          5 months ago

          the tech giant has suspended work on the next Vision Pro and is looking for ways to cut costs for a cheaper model that could ship by the end of next year

          It absolutely does not. Which non-shitty version of their currently absolutely shitty headset did you think was going to be the magic one that actually works the way describe and advertise? Lolol

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            5 months ago

            Why do you think the headset doesn’t work as described or advertised?

            Its price is the main complaint I’ve seen.

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              5 months ago

              If you haven’t read or looked into this, it feels almost wrong to just boil it down for you.

              Watch one of their stupid commercials about it, then see if it works at all the way they delict it working. It does not. All it is now is a wearable monitor for desktop viewing. Things it does not do while clearly depicted as such:

              • gaming
              • multimedia presentations
              • stream to other headsets
              • have ANY sharable user positioning data (local or GPS)
              • collaboration with other headset owners
              • wireless anything (it’s got a heavy ass battery pack)
              • literally has NONE of the apps that it had depicted it had in some presentations at initial dev announcement (Netflix, YouTube…etc), though they are usable in browser

              Anyway, you get the idea. There’s more, but why bother.

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                5 months ago

                I like shitting on Apple as much as the next guy but the Vision Pro is an impressive piece of gear from an engineering perspective. Unfortunately, much like pretty much all VR headsets before it, it is suffering from a lack of an ecosystem.

                All Apple changed is to pivot away from a focus on bleeding edge high end hardware in this new segment and instead grow a userbase by means of a cheaper base product (likely missing one or two bells and whistles). Developers don’t like to produce apps for platforms nobody will use, even if they get thrown some money to do so, because it is a poor long term investment. So Apple’s best shot at this is to get Vision devices onto as many heads as possible.

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            5 months ago

            It absolutely does. I’m not sure why you’re trying to spread misinformation, but Apple clearly hasn’t dropped VR or the Vision Pro, and your own source proves it.

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                5 months ago

                Yes you did. If you can’t remember your own words, you can literally just scroll up.

                I doubt it’s for their fun headset since they’ve already abandoned it.

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                    5 months ago

                    What are you talking about? They never said they were making a gaming-focused headset. We were talking about the Vision Pro and you said Apple abandoned it.

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      5 months ago

      They’re just stopping development of the Pro to focus on the cheaper model so not necessarily abandoned

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        5 months ago

        Remove the unnecessary outwardly facing “eyeball screens”. There, cheaper.

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        4 months ago

        I was trying to call out that dude as an idiot without getting flamed for it. Seems like they’re doing a great job of flaming themselves though. I knew it wasn’t abandoned.