Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos - eviltoast

Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos::undefined

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It doesn’t even do spatial computing well. It can simulate a single 4k display and that’s it. You can have some other apps floating around you, but not much.

    If I could simulate 8 4k displays all around me, or freely float my full blown Mac OS programs and resize them to infinity then I’d be cool with this. But I’ve got more screen in front of me right now than the vision could ever hope to do. And Apples “apps” are far too gimped to be useful. Notes and email are cool, but not much else.

    • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      It uses foveated rendering, so yeah it is effectively close to looking at a hidpi display across your entire field of vision, in a sphere around you. And you can use it effectively as a virtual monitor with a Mac, but you really have to design for the interface for a good experience

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      10 months ago

      Then it’s not spatial. Maybe they will bring that to the table.

      That’s what we need. I agree if it’s a downgrade from your Mac.

      It’s an upgrade from my Thinkpad.

      But price is the issue.

      Once devs get it. They can improve.