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 |
It's AR, it will never, ever be a gaming device. |
Sounds like famous last words to me. I think if done cleverly AR can spawn interesting cool new games. I have no indication though Apple intends to do so. But AR in itself could. Devs dipped their toes into AR for gaming from time to time, the most well-known AR game so far is Pokemon Go, which arguably is very successful. Obviously the key AR feature here is not merging graphics with reality (although they tried), but merging gameplay with reality, in form of geolocations. A device like this headset could maybe give merging graphics a push, we will see.
