Apple was never going to "save" VR.
We've spent the last decade giving Apple an unlimited runway of speculation and hype to bring a face computer to market.
Instead of doing a better job earnestly and fairly covering the tech along the way, properly educating consumers on what these things can do, now even Vision Pro can't live up to the media's imagined narrative of Apple.
Apple did nothing to earn a DECADE of media support for XR products, but think of all the projects that were criticized for not living up to some kind of imaginary Sci-Fi standard.
"Wait for gen 2 or gen 3 instead!"
Techies expect everyone else to lift off like a helicopter, but Apple gets UNLIMITED runway...
@SomeGadgetGuy Not defending Apple here, but the hype is not Apple’s fault, but rather all the fanbois. Those closer to the XR industry are more or less impressed with the Vision Pro for what it brought to the market (solid UI interactions and usable displays for productivity), but we never bought into the Apple hype train as it is not like Apple invents the core tech…the just refine it.
@SomeGadgetGuy I did not as it is a subject I am already very familiar with and I was commenting more in general about the topic as many feel let down by the Vision Pro is seems outside of the XR industry.
@ImmersiveMatthew Right. It's just helpful to know as I start a conversation if you did watch it or not. The tone of your comment felt like it was trying to correct something I've said, when literally the whole point of the video is to point out the media hyping Apple up.
Where I also say in the video, up until the keynote for their mixed reality headset, none of this hype was really Apple's fault.
@SomeGadgetGuy my point was it is the fanbois who hype it up and the media just caters to them as they know they will get clicks. Sure some of the media is paid for by Apple, but I suspect most is the former.
At some point, you should just watch the video, instead of explaining to me what's in the video I made, and trying to correct me on what I already said.
In the video.
Now, you seem like someone who really cares about clarity and good info, but you can't really live that so long as you make assumptions on what people are talking about, and don't actually listen to what they say.
So i'm gonna go ahead and mute this thread now, but hopefully you come around and we can chat some time.
It locks the NFC so only Apple Pay can use it and introduces many criteria and obstacles for banks to join Apple Pay, but consumers of those banks that don't join, blame only the banks.
It demands that telcos purchase a specific, very expensive provisioning server for Apple Watch Cellular, but if smaller carriers don't support this watch, they are to blame, certainly not Apple (while other watches can function with any server).
@mropret The modern era of Apple reeks of the idea that they break standards and interoperability, to sell a proprietary solution, and make their competitors look bad.
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