Random_Matt said:
LurkerJ said:
They didn't show a single VR game. Whatever games will be playable, they will be playable in 2D.
Apple is too detached from gaming, making a game for the good old console & PC is risky enough these days, as a result, few studios will take a gamble on making a VR game, and even fewer established big studio has stepped in with major plans to invest in VR, not even Sony's big guns seem interested. I doubt Apple will start building their own studios just to support this machine.
As it stands, the movie watching experience seems to be the most impressive demo they have shown. 100 feet screen real estate while watching a movie? Massive. I would love to try it.
The operating system is bare bones, but it's an extremely polished skeleton to build on nonetheless. I am sure demos will rave about the experience. However ....
Saleswise, the market for this product is small. I suppose for a 3.5k, they'll make decent profits if the userbase ends up being as large as the MacBook Pro userbase (for comparison's sake, HoloLense retails for the same price, although, it never looked as neat of a product as VisionPro is).
I am personally dreading the hot weather already and I can't see myself wearing something like this until it's winter, so unless ice age blesses this cursed earth again, I am not buying a headset that I can only use in the winter.
To me, the star of the event was the 15 inch MacBook Air, finally a bigger Air, and it will be the product people will buy in droves next week lol
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It's AR, it will never, ever be a gaming device.
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Except it literally can do VR type experiences and it can shut off the "AR" style features to immerse you into a different environment completely.
Apple doesn't even call it an AR device. It's "spatial computing".
The problem with VR gaming on it likely has more to do with it having twin 4K displays ... the amount of pixels a game would have to push to fill 8K worth of pixels would cripple a massive 4080, let alone a M2 processor (which is a great chip, but it's more for laptop computers and things like that).
