The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.

The Apple Vision Pro is supposed to be the start of a new spatial computing revolution. After several days of testing, it’s clear that it’s the best headset ever made — which is the problem.

    • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      getting all this tech in a headset means there’s a lot of weight on your face, so Apple chose to use an external battery pack connected by a cable.

      From the article. What do you mean no one is talking about this, literally every review dropped in the past day brings these things up.

      • Virkkunen@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        How the fuck this headset weighs over 600 grams? The Quest 2, which is pretty much a standalone Android phone weighs 500g WITH a battery in the headset. It is already a very heavy headset to be used without a strap that balances the load

        • Aatube@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          Because the Vision is a first generation (unoptimized) product that has way more hardware features, such as cameras to see through it from both directions. Even the Quest Pro weighs 720g. Plus, it’s Apple, so they use some aluminum.

        • DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          How the fuck this headset weighs over 600 grams?

          Because plastic isn’t a premium material. Apple users expect fancy alloys with glass everywhere, Apple can’t very well show up with a plastic headset and ask $3500 for it, they need all that extra weight to convince people that they’re getting a premium VR AR SPACIAL COMPUTING device that is unlike anything ever done before. It’s all part of the grift.

          I’m a reformed VR enthusiast and I have got to say that it’s all a hell of a gimmick, but it’s just a really neat gimmick. Without any hard-light tech or something to make stuff that you can actually interact with it’s all just Wii-mote waggle style nonsense that abstracts things that should be button presses into complex motions constrained by physical reality that our computers/keyboards/mice/controllers allow us to escape.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Excuse they got devices from Apple. And you can’t say anything Apple doesn’t want you to otherwise you lose access to Apple. They are a very petty company.