This was the Pro so my guess is the cheaper (lol by how much though) non pro version that they referenced before will be next. However Apple failed to prioritize VR fundamentals
Gaming
Porn
Multimedia
Productivity
Just seems like they went for the bottom two niche categories for VR with a device that is out of the average users price point.
Also external battery being required… Like wow. This should have had another year or two of R&D to get VR gaming apps ready on launch. VR is a gaming platform first and foremost… When you don’t have games nor any focus towards games, people will look elsewhere (To Meta)
And this issue is not exclusive to Apple, meta attempted to hone in on these two niche categories as well with the Quest Pro at a price that was far from acceptable to average casual customers… And it too is now out of production.
The external battery thing is absolutely ridiculous. I’m not an Apple fan and would not buy their products, but I can appreciate how devices like the iPod, iPhone and AirPods really did have extremely appealing design and a nice balance between performance and features and battery life and usability.
But the headset? Looks like they developed the entire thing, realized at the last minute they couldn’t power it, and tried to convince people to walk around with a weird cable and battery pouch everywhere by using their tried and true “show happy white people in a commercial doing the thing, so people will feel like the thing is normal and cool and desirable” and that completely did not work.
What they should have done is just made it nothing more than a headset that streams data from your other Apple devices like a Macbook or iMac or whatever. Then it wouldn’t need the crazy processing power, it wouldn’t need the stupid dangling battery, and it wouldn’t need to be wildly expensive. But obviously those concepts go against everything that Apple is.
This was the Pro so my guess is the cheaper (lol by how much though) non pro version that they referenced before will be next. However Apple failed to prioritize VR fundamentals
Gaming
Porn
Multimedia
Productivity
Just seems like they went for the bottom two niche categories for VR with a device that is out of the average users price point.
Also external battery being required… Like wow. This should have had another year or two of R&D to get VR gaming apps ready on launch. VR is a gaming platform first and foremost… When you don’t have games nor any focus towards games, people will look elsewhere (To Meta)
And this issue is not exclusive to Apple, meta attempted to hone in on these two niche categories as well with the Quest Pro at a price that was far from acceptable to average casual customers… And it too is now out of production.
The external battery thing is absolutely ridiculous. I’m not an Apple fan and would not buy their products, but I can appreciate how devices like the iPod, iPhone and AirPods really did have extremely appealing design and a nice balance between performance and features and battery life and usability.
But the headset? Looks like they developed the entire thing, realized at the last minute they couldn’t power it, and tried to convince people to walk around with a weird cable and battery pouch everywhere by using their tried and true “show happy white people in a commercial doing the thing, so people will feel like the thing is normal and cool and desirable” and that completely did not work.
What they should have done is just made it nothing more than a headset that streams data from your other Apple devices like a Macbook or iMac or whatever. Then it wouldn’t need the crazy processing power, it wouldn’t need the stupid dangling battery, and it wouldn’t need to be wildly expensive. But obviously those concepts go against everything that Apple is.