Apple may have canceled plans to produce a lower-cost version of the Apple Vision Pro headset, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. There were...

TL;DR: Apple may have canceled plans for a lower-cost version of the Apple Vision Pro headset, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The reasons are not provided, but cost reduction may be a factor. Apple still expects to ship 400,000 to 600,000 headsets in 2024, with a second-generation version expected in 2027.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    The problem with current AR/VR headsets is that they suck. They’re not powerful enough to track motion at actual speed, or display in sufficient resolution and with properly adjusted lenses, so people get motion sickness while wearing them, or at least find it uncomfortable. The breakthrough of the Vision Pro is that it establishes a baseline experience where you can stick a virtual item in real space and it stays exactly there, and really looks like it’s actually there in the space. This requires hideously expensive, absolute bleeding-edge of silicon design hardware to make possible.

    Also pixel density.

    Reading text on anything before the vision pro is going to make your eyes bleed. Vision pro looks like it finally crosses the minimum threshold for text clarity.