Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really.
  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    354·
    9 months ago

    I wish I had that kind of cash to drop on something I had no immediate use for.

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
      123·
      9 months ago

      Pretty much the only reason I didn’t buy one.

      I did the guided demo at the Apple Store and it’s a cool thing. If it were $2000 with AppleCare instead of $4000 I probably would have bought one.

      I’ll see what they release for the “Air” version.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
        143·
        9 months ago

        They’ll get it down eventually.

        But if you look seriously at the space, the price is aggressive for what it is. You’re not getting a dumb display that’s close for $2k. And the passthrough is insane and completely unmatched. There was a tiny bit of video noise, and it marginally removes your sense of the depth of the environment, but except for the fact that you have a display strapped to your face you could almost completely ignore that it’s not the real world. Add the M2 chip and how powerful ARKit is and it’s really a lot of tech for $3500.

        $3500 is a lot. It’s perfectly reasonable to wait, especially when it needs to be in developers’ hands before the app ecosystem that really leverages what it can do really gets built out. But the “Apple tax” if they weren’t sincerely trying to make it as affordable as possible (within their requirement of actually being good enough to constitute AR) is probably $5K plus.

        • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
          52·
          9 months ago

          Oh absolutely. It’s probably worth the $3500 at least. I just cannot think of a use case for myself that would justify it lol. I don’t work from home enough to claim it for work, and I can’t remote in from a Mac anyway.

          And with kids, I definitely don’t have the free time to use it to watch movies or anything.

          • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
            22·
            9 months ago

            I really want to get on the ground floor of AR apps. (Or say I am, then watch a bunch of movies and do nothing.)

            I figure I probably have to at least make a chunk of the cost of the headset on a normal phone app to justify actually buying it, but AR is more fun.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.world
      72·
      9 months ago

      I think the problem is that Apple tries to take its “Pro” label on products seriously while other companies don’t. Macbook Pro/Mac Pro computers are “professional” devices separate from the “consumer” line Macbook/iMac/Mac Mini products, for example. They are meant for what they say they are. Vision Pro is presumably the same.

      But “Pro” as a label has become synonymous with “Premium” in the industry and so they’re just the better devices for people with more money.

      • didnt_readit@lemmy.world
        131·
        9 months ago

        To be fair Apple also does this with the iPhone. The Pro is just the Premium one really, nothing really professional about it.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        123·
        9 months ago

        Except the base MBP model is not pro, and is closer to the air line.

        Apple doesn’t know what the fuck it wants besides momey.

      • metaStatic@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        like cars with sport in the name. no one’s taking an SUV to a track day … wait do people do that? Society was a bad idea.

  • Coreidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    9 months ago

    Then why did they buy it to begin with? No sympathy for the Apple fan boys that buy garbage just because apples name is on it. Morons.