@“yeso”#p118549 just slap a piece of tape over their camera and let them bonk into stuff
this is gonna be the new google glass, where if you see someone walking out with one you just put your hand up to their face to block their camera whenever you see them.
I think this Apple thing is going to flop so hard. Complete nonsense product. An apple exec woke up from a seven year coma and said we have to make the worst vr headset and sell it for the price of a used 2004 Honda Accord.
@“Mnemogenic”#p118554 I think it‘ll do okay eventually - people will use it for business meetings to show how much money they have and then the headsets will get cheaper - but they gotta actually just become glasses where you can see out instead of projecting your eyeballs on. I’m still gonna hate them but I think there's an eventual future if the technology evolves.
to be fair, the no controllers, hands-only interaction is a cool touch but like, hit me up in a decade so i can see if it's actually viable or if anyone still cares about vr/ar
What does this flopping look like though? Apple has been making hardware since the 1970s and since ‘98 have had an amazing track record. At this price point I’m sure their internal projections are fairly grounded.
Apple also makes best in class hardware/software - this isn't like google or facebook shitting out some tech just to scrape advertising data off people - they have clearly put a lot of thought into what the future of ar/vr is. When the iphone/ipad/watch came out they were all labeled as products that were going to brick. That didn't happen. I hate sounding like I'm defending this thing (I have no interest in getting one and the price is astronomical) but I'm willing to give Apple more leeway than any other large tech corp.
They are also positioning this as a computing platform - yes it will play games and have entertainment functions, just like any computer/device - they were showing a lot of productivity stuff with more going on than just sitting at a virtual conference table (although there was stuff like that shown). I do like Apple's products and appreciate their dedication to user privacy (relative to all the other big players at least). I will also say that this is clearly a high-end product with a price tag to match. That can be easy to label as a pointless status symbol that is deserving of derision, but there does seem to be some really good ideas here.
maybe it has anti-wedgie/getting pinched /wet-willied countermeasures
what‘s the timeline for this? I don’t see myself getting one anytime soon, but I‘ve got another 50 years in me at least, and I can see myself enjoying whatever VR has to offer by then, probably more than anything else going on.
And who knows, maybe 2-5 years from now I would consider it!
So I guess what I mean to say is I’m very open to the idea. So my vote is yes.
I do also want a Virtual Boy, to play Wario Land.
@“tomjonjon”#p118562 whatever. I’ll be laughing all the way to the patent office and eventually the bank with my getting pantsed-protection app
@“yeso”#p118566 The nerd screenshot was directed at the apple headset wearing technorati - not you. Sorry about the confusion.
@“tomjonjon”#p118567 idk, I think he's pulling off the look
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@“yeso”#p118577
https://youtu.be/y3oMt6GOKfg?t=673
@“yeso”#p118577 He looks almost as happy as the bummed out commuter from the Zelda TotK commercial.
@“yeso”#p118549 maybe the wedgie equivalent for this will be violently pulling down that dumb battery cable
I have no doubt that apple threw billions of dollars into sanding down every rough VR edge as it exists today. I'm sure the video passthrough is natural, the gesture control is elegant, the balance and weight of the headset is unobtrusive, etc.
Even if they get VR/AR down to the logical future of inexpensive, lightweight eyeglasses/contact lenses, there will always remain a fundamental problem: it is antisocial technology. It fragments the world further in seeing different realities. It alienates you from your actual environment, and reinforces class boundaries through your willingness to pay for the latest technology and the services that back it, to say nothing of the people that will never be able to afford it or how to accomodate the people that simply don't want it.
People look to apple to define what the average person is going to want to use technology for. That answer seems to be "you can have more computer monitors" and "you can pretend you have a bigger tv" and "you can creep out your kids by trying to take a 3d video of them". All the money in the world didn't invent an audience for this thing.
@“穴”#p118582 it looks a LOT like the ps vita home screen
I remember a podcast I used to listen to call these “give up machines”, this apple trailer is sending major give up vibes. Everyone is just inside and sitting on the couch, how is that different from a laptop? The creepiest part to me is that facetime will show an avatar of you to other people, mapped off your face. It's a metaverse gateway drug.