I just wanted to hear what everyone’s thoughts are on Apple’s new product line coming out in 2024. Will this be the new iPad/iPhone? While the price is certainly prohibitive, from what I can tell from the keynote and promo, it really does seem like the real deal; a different way of interacting ‘in space.’ I think this is the step in the right direction for AR/VR to be more mainstream.

  • Nari@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The AR stuff is what I’ve wanted since the first Oculus dropped – being able to remove all the obvious parts of technology from my physical spaces (the multiple monitors, the computer tower, all the cables and whatnot) in favor of a thing I put on my head and do real work? Yes please. Fuck gaming – I want my life back, and to have work shoved off into a weird phantom realm where I don’t have to think about or look at it when I’m off the clock.

  • Björn Tantau@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I can see companies buying it and some enthusiasts. But I don’t think it will see wide consumer adoption with that price.

    Even though I think this is one of the rare instances where the price seems to be quite fair. For an Apple product at least.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    They are betting on it being the next big thing, but I don’t think it is. One side note the images shows clear googles, I’m pretty sure their model has no clear through vision, isn’t it a black opaque front with camera? So if battery dies you lose external vision. For a product to take off it has to fill a use-case and a buyer’s need. Why is wearing a goggle needed, it is cumbersome and limited. Workplace use woyld be fatiguing. Google Glass had a better idea (you could interact with the world normal and have AR as a bonus. The cost of apple product is also a barrier to many, and so you would get poor people with no access to functions. Just seems like they will share the fate of Metas AR googles.

  • Annies_Boobs@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I really want to try one for myself before I make any real opinions on it. I also won’t say that it is DOA as much as I want to, because I said the same thing about the iPad and it’s lack of Flash. At the end of the day I can’t afford one anyway so it doesn’t really matter to me, but it’s some cool tech for sure.