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
      19·
      9 months 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.

      • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Exactly. Basically the most common YouTuber reaction to putting this device on for the first time is “Oh! it’s heavy…” XD

        • nicetriangle@kbin.social
          5·
          9 months ago

          Aluminum is cool but they really should have considered plastic or something and also scrapped that outer screen. The tradeoffs in both weight, cost, and battery life make no sense at all.

          • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            First iteration. I’m sure it’ll improve with time. I guess we all remember those solid gold Apple Watches… XDDD

    • Dmian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      From the article (did you read it?):

      Since you’ll mostly experience the Vision Pro in there, the most noticeable thing about the hardware after a while is that it’s just… heavy. You’re supposed to wear this thing on your face for long stretches of computer time, and depending on which band and light seal you use, the headset alone weighs between 600 and 650 grams. I keep joking that the Vision Pro is an iPad for your face, but it’s heavier than an 11-inch iPad Pro (470 grams) and pushing close to a 12.9-inch iPad Pro (682 grams), so in a very real way, it’s an iPad for your face.

      And…

      […] but it’s also very Apple that the battery is not actually bigger so it can provide more than two and a half hours of run time.

      • Virkkunen@kbin.social
        51·
        9 months 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

        • DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social
          2·
          9 months 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.

        • Aatube@kbin.social
          31·
          9 months 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.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      9 months 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.