• PerogiBoi
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    2 months ago

    What innovation did they have? They took existing tech, made it fancy looking, and slapped an unobtainable price tag to it.

    If you have ever used a HoloLens 2 or a standalone VR headset, you’ll find what Apple did is nothing new.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve owned a half dozen VR headsets, starting with Oculus DK2 up to the Vision Pro. I currently use both the Vision Pro and a Meta Quest 3.

      The software in the apple product is like nothing else on the market I’ve used. It’s not a perfect product, not even a great one really, but Apple have done a great job making VR/AR in their own style and I have a lot of optimism for this product line in their hands going forward. There’s a fair bit of new in visionOS that nobody else has done yet.

      I don’t know what the BoM cost is for AVP1, but it’s almost certainly a lot higher than other flagship headsets on the market.