Apple Vision Pro launch pre-view testers complain about weight, comfort, even headaches::Reporters given pre-launch access to the new Apple Vision Pro have reported concerns with its weight and comfort, with at least two writers reporting notable discomfort using it. While there are undoubtedly positive experiences to be had with the product, it wasn’t just discomfort that was problematic.
“Apple vision pro launch pre-view testers complain about looking dumb as fuck.”
“I love your dead, virtual eyes that track by face and stare directly at me while you do other wholly unrelated things inside your headset!”
Consumer VR is over, it didn’t work. nobody really wants it, at any price. Wtf was Apple thinking? This should have been scrapped and left for dead. Good money after bad.
I have put this on the internet so it can age like fine milk if this thing manages to find an enthusiastic audience. I feel pretty good about my odds here though.
Perhaps, but folks are still wriggling around trying to make it happen. That and this being more an AR/VR hybrid (XR they called it? barf) along with apple’s usual polish (and ardent reality distortion field susceptible consumer base) could make a difference. Maybe. Also, dead can mean different things, no? There is a market for driving wheels and seats and such for racing games but it isn’t widespread like having a playstation is. I wouldn’t say driving peripherals were dead but just niche. That’s probably covered with your “consumer” descriptor of VR vs. what might be called an enthusiast market though. I appreciate the casting of your opinion to posterity.
The tech and price still aren’t there yet. Until these can fit in your pocket or cost a weeks salary for your average person, it’s just a luxury toy very few will ever use.
I love how every photo of this thing is right in front of the subject. Just tilt their head 30° and it will look like comical googly eyes
