Comment by kllrnohj
3 years ago
> As someone who travels for work, this is well worth 3500. To wear these on flights, in small hotel rooms, etc. is definitely a game changer. I have no use for video games so the Quest stuff with the controllers never made sense.
Eh? Things like watching videos on a flight were tried with Samsung Gear VR or Google Day Dream. It flopped. Want a virtual office on a flight? Well fire up Virtual Desktop on an Occulus today and you've got exactly that - no controller needed.
On a flight something like Occulus' passthrough mode looks perfectly adequate - after all, the whole point in that scenario is to isolate not to socialize. So the plain/train/bus usage seems questionable, and do you really want to travel with something that bulky?
This is not the same experience https://youtu.be/74KInxQ8suI?t=208
The low res, jerkiness, having to use controllers, etc. wether or not the apple experience is worth it is up to the person.
I don't see these as "metaverse" glasses or VR/AR as much as a $3500 display.
FWIW, that's a 4 year old video. MKBHD's video of the quest pro:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jUIE2l_9ig8
But but but. Tim said that “Today marks the beginning of a new era for computing,”
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GearVR was a precursor to the Oculus Go, which was quite successful. It showed that lots of people wanted a device to watch media and user retention was pretty good:
From Carmack's Oculus Connect 2018 talk:
> With Oculus Go, about 80 percent of usage time has been for viewing "media" and only 20 percent for gaming.
> Oculus Go and Rift are much "stickier," he says, with users that "come back... week to week and spend a lot of time in it."
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/carmack-oculus-quests...
What you say is technically true but you still need the controllers for setup and that is quite annoying if you travel a lot. I read OPs level of travel as > 8 hours in air per week and > 3 nights in hotel per week.
At that level this is an easy buy.
what's the virtual desktop on a plane situation you're describing ? i thought it needed airlink to a local computer or a really fast internet connection to a remote computer but maybe i'm not up to date
if the vision pro gives me a laptop-mac experience in vr without needing a separate computer with me, that's a pretty compelling use case to me
You should be able to use the headset alone as a "ipad pro" experience, computing power.
And you should be able to have your separate computer, with the lid closed, and it still be running, projecting its desktop inside the headset.
(based upon today's videos)
gotcha thanks, i didn't catch all of the presentation and only now getting around to reading the recaps
will be interesting to see what's possible in their os for it vs macos or ios
The Vision Pro has 2 hours of battery life. You're not exactly going to replace your laptop with it.
good point it's got a custom connector to the headset but hoping that it'll be possible to use a bigger battery pack or seat power outlets/usb will provide enough to keep it going longer than 2 hours