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I'd imagine ending production of gen1 because gen2 is coming....not cancelling the whole product.
Poll: *** The official Apple Vision Pro thread (it has an M2, an R1, loads of cameras, a whopping price tag and everything!) ***
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now there's a shock...£3500 with an external battery pack as it's so heavy anyway...battery wont last for a long film, and idea of sitting down with the family (lets say family of 4), you'd need to drop £14k...or just spend £2300 and get a 77" qd oled where you can sit together and watch and still see the person next to you.
apple are very good at selling you a dream, but reality is after the initial use, it ends up being put away and not used again in most cases
VR/AR is a gimmick that is going nowhere. The poor sales prove that, but even if you say they are poor due to price - data shows the average buyer of the Vision pro quickly stops using the device and either returns it or lets it gather dust.
Owners of vision pro headsets are not even using their headsets... and that's all you need to know, the price doesn't matter if people don't want to use it
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I suppose they have to shift the 100's of thousands they still have in stock, unsold.
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No way they have that many surely? They must have realised the demand wouldn’t be there.
It’s the same as the 3D glasses, you spent half the time watching everyone else seeing if they still had their glasses on. Watched 1 film and never watched anything again.
I honestly can say if I got offered one, i’d probably use it that day for an hour or so to see what it’s all about then never again.
Where are you seeing those figures? Apple is usually very good with supply and forecasting.
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In the video I posted.
i feel like they could have saved like a ton of money by phoning up Microsoft and asking how the Hololens project was going, and then recorded the several hours of laughing they'd get as a response. And Hololens is great! For architects. Who the hell was the vision pro for? Jobs would have hated that product and never let it go into R&D, never mind market.
I don't agree, AR has a ton of application, it's just not a mature product yet, and it should be focused into things like your car windshield, professional development projects like engineering or designing buildings. Beyond that right now for gaming or watching entertainment, it's really limited. Certainly not justifiable for the cost or the hololens. Microsoft sure as hell haven't figured it out, and they#re way ahead of the curve:
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It is an amazing piece of tech but seems like a solution looking for a problem. As far as I can see the main things people would actually use this for are:
- pr0n
- gaming
- passing time on planes
That's basically it. But the first one isn't going to happen on an Apple device. It isn't good for the second one either due to both the software and the heavy physical design. And the third one alone doesn't justify the price tag especially when a pair of noise cancelling headphones and your phone do a pretty good job of passing the time anyway.
Smartphones took off because they were insanely useful.
Smart watches are somewhat niche but still sell ok, because they can bring a small amount of convenience while being small and ignorable on your wrist all day.
VR/AR glasses doesn't really provide that much utility and frankly make you look like an idiot, while being very expensive. It doesn't take a business genius to predict low sales.
- pr0n
- gaming
- passing time on planes
That's basically it. But the first one isn't going to happen on an Apple device. It isn't good for the second one either due to both the software and the heavy physical design. And the third one alone doesn't justify the price tag especially when a pair of noise cancelling headphones and your phone do a pretty good job of passing the time anyway.
Smartphones took off because they were insanely useful.
Smart watches are somewhat niche but still sell ok, because they can bring a small amount of convenience while being small and ignorable on your wrist all day.
VR/AR glasses doesn't really provide that much utility and frankly make you look like an idiot, while being very expensive. It doesn't take a business genius to predict low sales.
Certainly in their current iteration. AR seems like it could potentially be really useful, or at least a more convenient alternative to other options. It's pretty easy to imagine how navigation projected into the world could be useful, or how you could get in-world step-by-step instructions on how to do something, and it could potentially do things like getting it to pop up a discrete reminder when you see someone when its their birthday or when you needed to remember to tell them something. But wearing a massive, low-battery-life, headset like the Apple Vision Pro isn't functional for any of that sort of thing.
I don't think Apple expected this to be a hit - they're hoping that they can turn it into something that can be a hit several iterations down the line - but it seems like even then they over-estimated the sales they'd get.
Looks like Apple have stopped production of the Vision Pro.
If Apple stopped production of products every time one of these websites said it did, they'd have gone out of business decades ago.
Fair point.
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I’m sure they have quite the pile of built units now, doesn’t make sense to keep making more if they aren’t selling that quickly, pretty normal in most industries I’d imagine.