Poll: *** The official Apple Vision Pro thread (it has an M2, an R1, loads of cameras, a whopping price tag and everything!) ***

Apple Vision Pro - Are you going to buy one?

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Competition is picking up fast

Samsung, Xiaomi, LG and now Varjo. All are working on ultra premium MR headsets to compete with Apple. But Apple will always have a market, Apple fans and existing Apple product owners will buy the Vision Pro for the ecosystem even if others have superior hardware, so cost is the main issue for Apple

And Apple will need to work hardware to reduce price because the cost of production is high, with the Vision Pro costing nearly $2k to manufacture

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Apple Vision Pro Shipments Rumored To Cross 400,000 Units At Launch, Will Reach New 1 million Milestone In The Entire 2024

The Apple Vision Pro may generate an intensive shipment momentum at launch, with a new rumor claiming that 400,000 units will be sold initially
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Will be interesting to see how this reviews. Something like this that truly integrates with the apple ecosystem could be amazing. Not long to wait until we start getting proper reviews. Been a long time since Apple took such a big and expensive gamble.
 
Apple is executing a carefully planned orchestra to try and get the best reviews it can

They have hand selected a few reviewers who will get the Vision Pro. These reviewers will be flown to Apple HQ on 16 January and they will get hands on the device and raise issues and ask questions. Then on 23 January Apple will do calls with the reviewers to give feedback and answer other questions. Then the Vision Pro will be sent to reviewers on 26 January and the reviewers will have a couple days to finish their review for go live.

This also means reviews will go live around 1 day before users start receiving theirs so not much time to cancel orders.
 
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To be fair, the kinds of people willing to drop £3500 on one of these sight unseen were likely to buy it regardless of what the review say.

Plus Apple’s has a 14 day no questions returns policy. If they don’t like it they can return it. I expect the returns rate would be higher than normal for an Apple product as these things are not for everyone, even if they are good.
 
Will admit, had these been available in the UK I'd have been tempted. Though I suspect that as an early adopter it'll be little more than an impressive midair floating iPad experience with a huge screen, and be one of those with buyers remorse and return it.
 
It's a cool piece of tech but it's tech trying to find a purpose rather than tech that already has a purpose. AR tech isn't going to be adopted until it's no more bulky than a normal pair of glasses.

Can you imagine people walking around outside wearing this? It would be hilarious.
 
Broken Hope said:
It's a cool piece of tech but it's tech trying to find a purpose rather than tech that already has a purpose. AR tech isn't going to be adopted until it's no more bulky than a normal pair of glasses.

Can you imagine people walking around outside wearing this? It would be hilarious.
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Yeah well said and I fully agree. For this type of product to reach maturity and widespread adoption it needs 3 key things which are all required for success:

1) Needs to be the size of a pair of glasses
2) Needs all day battery life (at least 8hrs)
3) Needs at least 4k per eye and high PPD


To achieve the above you need to fit an M3 type SOC and very high resolution screens inside a pair of glasses and have 8 hours of battery. Were many years away from this being possible but it has to happen, this product will not see major adoption until it can do this
 
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Grim5 said:
Apple is executing a carefully planned orchestra to try and get the best reviews it can

They have hand selected a few reviewers who will get the Vision Pro. These reviewers will be flown to Apple HQ on 16 January and they will get hands on the device and raise issues and ask questions. Then on 23 January Apple will do calls with the reviewers to give feedback and answer other questions. Then the Vision Pro will be sent to reviewers on 26 January and the reviewers will have a couple days to finish their review for go live.

This also means reviews will go live around 1 day before users start receiving theirs so not much time to cancel orders.
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This PR campaign extends to buyers as well.

All Vision Pro buyers will have to collect their orders at an Apple Store and before the store hands over the headset, the buyer must participate in a 25 minute training demonstration event

Did Apple do this with the iPhone? Did the first iPhone buyers have to do training to use the device? I'm concerned that the headset's features could either be overly complicated or the software could be user unfriendly

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Customers May Have To Sit Through A 25-Minute-Long Demo Session To Get The Vision Pro Headset

Customers loking to get their hands on the Vision Pro headset would have to sit through a 25-minute demo session for fitting and usage.
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Grim5 said:
This PR campaign extends to buyers as well.

All Vision Pro buyers will have to collect their orders at an Apple Store and before the store hands over the headset, the buyer must participate in a 25 minute training demonstration event

Did Apple do this with the iPhone? Did the first iPhone buyers have to do training to use the device? I'm concerned that the headset's features could either be overly complicated or the software could be user unfriendly

wccftech.com

Customers May Have To Sit Through A 25-Minute-Long Demo Session To Get The Vision Pro Headset

Customers loking to get their hands on the Vision Pro headset would have to sit through a 25-minute demo session for fitting and usage.
wccftech.com wccftech.com
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The article you linked to explains the need for the training :)
 
I think if I was in the apple ecosystem, and the content was good I'd consider one.

Hopefully samsung/google and valve get their act together.

I'm looking forward to improved hardware, but it means nothing without decent games/apps.
 
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