Marques Brownlee seems to like Eye Tracking in Apple Vision Pro

[lost in space]

^This

[Carnos Jax]

For sure, there are some rough edges. As a first generation device, it is more exploratory for Apple. As mentioned in the video, the device will evolve as developers find uses for it. The big thing to note here though is how well Apple executed the device’s capabilities and functions. That provides the foundation upon which developers can create or find some compelling use cases or killer apps,

[Mactel]

Ombligo wrote:
Perhaps dumbed-down Visions that just mirror the main one, so others can see what your seeing.

Oh geez, that reminds me of the movie Strange Days.

[btfc]

“ The Apple Vision Pro is best AR and VR experience I've ever tried (and I've tried many) “

https://www.xda-developers.com/apple-vis...-hands-on/

[TheTominator]

timg wrote:
I think he hit on a big point at the end when he was talking about the avatar in facetime and the dad wearing the thing and taking pictures. That last part would be majorly weird if you ask me.

I don't think there's a fundamental reason why the dad would have to be wearing the thing while recording the event. It could be on a selfie-stick type thing (mannequin head?) and be moving around like a tall Roomba or a flying drone to record events. In the future we might have Apple HomePod style devices with remote stereoscopic cameras designed to capture parties or other private events.

timg wrote: how would 2 people watch a mvie together with this thing?? and who wants to be watching the movie by themselves?

Am I missing something obvious? When watching 3D movies, each person wears 3D glasses. To watch 3D content together with another person, each person wears their own Apple Vision Pro. Software would handle making sure the video on each device is played in sync. The primary difference is that the two people do not need to be sitting in the same room to enjoy the same content together. But the Apple Vision Pro could make it appear that they are sitting in the same room. Some people already enjoy watching videos together via FaceTime when they are physically far apart. This technology could make that much easier and a much better experience.

[ArtP]

It cleared up my understanding of what VR is good for or used for...

Also where it might be going.

At $3500 probably not for everyone BUT I also said the same thing about $499 mp3 years back at Macworld called the iPod - now almost everyone has one in their pocket called the iPhone

Interesting

[RAMd®d]

Apple is going to make a lot of money. People are going to take out a second mortgage or sell one of their kids (or kidneys).


Exactly.

Fortunately, I don't have to do either.

For what one gets when the current AVP ships, it's the content that'll be the expense.

It will get it's own Store, so I see rich people, lol.


I also said the same thing about $499 mp3 years back at Macworld called the iPod - now almost everyone has one in their pocket called the iPhone


When the iPod was announced, it seemed like every other Mac user called it overpriced, doomed, and a flop.

Rio already had an MP3 player out when the 5G iPod was announced.

I don't remember the time line of the devices, but I priced out the Rio v iPod at the time.

The Rio had 32MB of memory and couldn't hold an hour of low-res mp3s.

It had a slot for some card card, and I thought there was a back that attached that would hold additional storage.

Pricing out a fully loaded Rio cane to about $470, with a 500MB capacity, I think.

What ever the Rio's final pricing was, the iPod was a much better bargain for the money.

Even so, A LOT of people would counter either why would people want to carry around their entire music collection or— it couldn't carry their entire music collection.

Yet they could defend the Rio.

So I got the 5G iPod.

And as time went on, the iPod got more capacity, and some got cheaper, I guess.

But I never regretted the purchase.

I could have waited, since the next version would likely be better, but the interim just didn't make that worth my while.

If people want to wait for Gen 3, fine by me.

I doubt I'll wait any more than long enough to miss the first wave.

[Lux Interior]

Carnos Jax wrote:
Apple is going to make a lot of money.

They are already doing that.

[Tiangou]

timg wrote:
I think he hit on a big point at the end when he was talking about the avatar in facetime and the dad wearing the thing and taking pictures. That last part would be majorly weird if you ask me.

Personally, I don't see how this will do well until there is something really compelling on it. As it is, it just seems like another way to avoid human contact. how would 2 people watch a mvie together with this thing?? and who wants to be watching the movie by themselves?

Don't think of it as an accessory like a watch or a Meta/Oculus AR device.

As an accessory, this is an expensive toy. As a general computing device, this is very attractive.

It's a computing platform. Your Mac can interface with it, but it can also act completely independently.

So, what do you do with your Mac? Whatver you do with your Mac, now you can do it in an immersive 3D environment with the ability to spread your app windows across a 360-degree field of view.

And from what I can tell, the avatars are amazingly lifelike. If you're sitting next to someone watching a movie together, you'll see them when you turn your head. If you're watching a movie with someone who is sitting 3,000 miles away, you'll see their avatar when you turn your head. I'm pretty certain that I could quickly get used to that.

(They've glossed over the storage options so far. 3D files can get huge. I wonder whether it's got a tiny SSD and relies on cloud-storage/streaming for nearly everything.)

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Anybody want to watch the movie Surrogates with me on the Vision Pro?