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Reliving My Memories in Apple Vision Pro Almost Brought Me to Tears

1 pointsby veec_cas_tantover 1 year ago

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dangusover 1 year ago
I can agree that an immersive photo or video in 3D presented back to you with your perspective vision could be a really powerful thing.<p>However...the conclusion is where things fall apart for me a little bit.<p>&gt; Frankly, I think everyone is so focused on comparing Vision Pro to the Quest 3 that they’re missing the point of what the Vision Pro really is: it’s going to disrupt the TV and projection screens industry. Why would anyone spend $3,000 on a cutting-edge TV when the Vision Pro will give you a resizable screen that&#x27;s also portable and can easily display all of your content?<p>I think this is quite far off. For one thing, the average person is absolutely not spending $3,000 on a TV. People look at my $1,500 TV like I&#x27;m crazy. A 65&quot; TV is like $350 at Costco.<p>And, what, I need one Vision Pro per person in my house? So if I have 10 people over to watch football they need a $35,000 set of screens instead of one $1,500 screen.<p>Then I&#x27;ve got these spatial videos that I can&#x27;t even take advantage of unless I have a Vision Pro. There&#x27;s no other device where I can view them in their full glory. You don&#x27;t even have that problem with other proprietary formats like Live Photos.<p>And, here&#x27;s the other thing: prospective customers can&#x27;t see the benefit of the Vision Pro without using one and giving it a chance. It&#x27;s kind of a black box device that can&#x27;t win over a buyer without something of a longer test drive. It&#x27;s not like the original iPhone where one two-finger pinch resize of a photo can cause an audience to gasp and cheer.<p>That&#x27;s going to be where the price is a <i>huge</i> issue. It was easy to just go and impulsively buy Quests because they are at a &quot;toy&quot; price point.<p>You know why people are comparing the Quest 3 to the Vision Pro? Because the Quest 3 is attainable at $500, and it gives you some of the more useful and impactful AR upgrades that someone would want. It&#x27;s got working pass-through, you can watch videos on a virtual screen while you fold laundry.<p>Can&#x27;t I play back 3D video just as well on a Quest 3? Presumably, if someone makes a simple camera app, you can take a similar &quot;spatial video&quot; and watch it with any VR device, since all VR devices have stereoscopic vision.<p>I&#x27;m sure Apple will eventually bring the price down for the Vision Pro, but it&#x27;s going to be a long journey. I&#x27;m not betting against it, but at the same time, I&#x27;m not betting that it&#x27;s the next evolution of computing.