1y ago

Apple Vision Pro Customer Interest Dying Down at Some Retail Stores

www.macrumors.com

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I know this is a community designed to give us a place to hate on Apple and all of it's products, but I love the Vision Pro.
Ironically I use it the most for porn consumption. It's fantastic for 2D porn viewing of all kinds.
I can't wait until someone makes Apple Immersive Video quality porn. That experience would make this headset suddenly affordable to a lot of guys out there.
- I applaud your honesty
Less weight, no external display (remove eyesight), prizedrop and allow porn apps via alternative App Store and it will sell like hot cakes.
- I've been hearing people claim that it's the next incremental improvement that's gonna do it since the very first Oculus prototype. Turns out there's always another next incremental improvement.
  Look, I have owned what? Five? Six? HMDs since VR started. I'm looking at two right now. I'm not a hater. But it's way past time to acknowledge that this isn't mainstream tech. This thing is behaving like all other standalone VR devices. Which is impressive, because the price tag is absurd, it should have been dead on the water day one.
  
  So many companies have tried to make VR mainstream. Just like 3D movies they have a niche group that love the tech and then there's everyone else.
  
  it should have been dead on the water day one.
  Wait, it wasn't? I haven't seen the balance sheet or anything but the number one thing anyone mentions about it is that it's absurdly expensive.
I'm not surprised. I've watched a few reviews of this thing and still cannot think of any real use case.
- The idea of virtualizing computer interface displays and being able to lock them to physical locations in space is really cool. But there is no fucking way I would wear a headset just for that. I’d love to have an intangible screen that magically hangs above my stove to help with cooking tasks. But again… headset? No thanks.
A fuckton of R&D dollars are circling the drain at this point.
Would wager it will earn a place next to the cube.
I've repeatedly seen people claim that the latter generations of the Vision Pro will be what launches it into success but like... how? The Vision Pro is incredibly expensive, limited in functionality, and has an ultra locked-down ecosystem not because it's a first-gen product but because that is how Apple operates. All of their products follow that trend. In fact, additional Vision Pro generations are likely to be more expensive just like how new iPhones and Macbooks are going up in price and staying there.
The majority of people are simply not interested in VR/AR and Apple's pricey take on it isn't going to change that.
- The first iPhone didn’t even have third party apps. I’m not saying the Vision Pro will make it but even the iPhone had its issues to begin with. I’d like it to succeed because I think it has potential. It is super expensive but hopefully that will get better. But you’re right the iPhone got way more expensive. Although I suspect the first iPhones were highly subsidized to begin with and I doubt the Visio Pro is.

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