For starters we're in the middle of a huge financial crisis, so releasing yet another VR set, a 3500 USD one at that, is hilarious. To further hammer in how terrible the timing of this is, we are also amid so many tech bro shit schemes failing. Cryptocurrency, NFTs, you name it. The Metaverse was a laughingstock, Twitter is imploding from Elons idiot decisions, Teslas are literally crashing and burning and all major tech companies have been on the News at some point for fucking with people's personal data and other con jobs. AI is scaring people as much as it is entertaining them. Confidence in emergent technology is at an all-time low. It doesn't help that the promo poster features the most dead-eyed soulless-looking person staring through it at you. People are sick of it. VR headsets were already niche, who cares if it has AR or whatever tacked on? Sure, some rich yuppies will buy it to impress their friends, but they buy anything the market tells them is the next big thing and are a small minority (again, more poor people than ever at the moment)
TLDR this is going to be Google Glass again but this time even more of a flop because now people are poorer and more skeptical of big tech than ever.
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You don't have to strap a PC to your face. Shit looks heavy. Wonder what the battery life is like. Does it get hot? It can't be as powerful as a PC either.
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It is, it has a laptop processor in it.
Battery is external and goes in your pocket, I do wonder if you can hot swap it. Definitely helps with the weight.
It's an Apple product. What do you think?
Holy shit they made a VR Game Gear
Not having wires makes a big difference in how you can move, Doubly so if they want this to have some kind of pass-through AR so you can walk around without running in to walls and then swap to your VR app wherever you happen to be.
it has a laptop processor in it, whereas VR games require graphics cards bigger than the typical Macbook.
They absolutely do not. You can run an index on a midrange cards now, depending on what games you want to play. Keep in mind, the Quest2 is an all in one headset that runs this game just fine.
It's not an Index, it has 4x as many pixels, and a modern midrange GPU is far more powerful than an Apple laptop GPU.
Yeah I don't think they've marketed it as capable of those kinds of games, it's like a big iPad that fills your vision.
Apple doesn't have the technology to make a GPU that's as good as NVidia or AMD in performance per watt, so there's no way they can put out even close to the performance of a gaming laptop in a standalone VR headset.
I can't speak for Apples thing but I've worn HTC Vives and the Valve Index for several hours at a time without too much trouble. They're a few pounds, which isn't nothing, but they're not that heavy either.