Comment by goosedragons
3 years ago
As someone who lives alone in a tiny apartment I have watched a movie on my Quest 2, quite a few. It's better than watching a movie on my PC monitor that pulls double duty as a TV. Would I pay $3500 for that though? Absolutely not.
I'm curious how well gaming will work too. They didn't show off any sort of VR controller a la Quest or PS VR2.
I think they purposefully avoided showing a VR controller because they're making the claim that you don't need one at all for the use cases they were showing.
I think they're claiming that their hand and eye tracking are good enough that you don't need to be waving your arms around to navigate menus.
They did show people using a Playstation controller to play games so I assume there will eventually at least be a third party VR controller.
Yeah I get not showing it off for watching a movie or whatever if the hand/eye tracking work well but for VR gaming it's worrying. VR controllers need some sort of tracking and I'm unsure a 3rd party solution will be as seamless or well supported.
Because their gaming market would be tiny. Gaming on Mac is completely dead, and mobile gaming will take at least a lot of time to adapt to the hardware.
> Gaming on Mac is completely dead
"Dead" is an unnecessary exaggeration. I'm a Mac gamer and my Steam library has more Mac games in it than I can possibly play all the way through. No Man's Sky was just released for Mac, and I'm looking forward to playing that too. I just played through Subnautica at the same time as my friend who was playing it on his Switch and he was blown away at how much better and smoother it was on my M1 MacBook. Also Parallels and Crossover open up the ability to play a lot of Windows games on a Mac. I'm still impressed with just how well that works for some games. I'm not a bleeding-edge everything-in-my-life-is-about-gaming gamer, sure, but I still think I'm a gamer. Yes, compared to the Windows gaming market, the Mac gaming market is small, but it's not dead.
>No Man's Sky
7-years old game.
>Subnautica
5-years old game.
>Parallels and Crossover
Paid emulation, but not as slick of Steam's Proton (which one could get for no extra cost). Linux currently has better gaming support than Mac.
Gaming on Mac is not "completely dead", but it's basically getting leftovers. That's ok for many people, but it will negatively affect the fortunes of "Vision Pro".
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But it's not a mac and gaming is the current biggest application for VR. Apple could have gone on a spending spree and built up a family of games if they were interested.
Hideo Kojima actually appeared earlier in the keynote to announce the arrival of Death Stranding on Apple Silicon Macs.