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  • Vision Pro will require an appointment, initially only in Apple Stores

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    graphicsguy said:
    As crazy as the price seems now, I'm pretty sure at some point -- maybe 2nd Gen -- we'll have one of these in our house. The one negative I can see (no pun intended) is that it seems like these are going to be tailored for individual users, so my wife and I, with different vision prescriptions, will conceivably be unable to share a single Vision Pro.


    Well the lenses are separate and the face padding is removable. So you'll both just have to get your own and swap them out depending on who wants to use it.

    Not sure how eye and hand tracking will work for different people though.
    byronlcaladanian

  • Apple's Windows Game Porting Toolkit gets faster with new update

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    chutzpah said:
    Doubling the frame rate is very impressive, even if it is just a single title.  I wonder if there is any internal discussion about whether Apple should promote this consumer side and work on a user friendly interface so this could be their version of Proton.

    I get that Apple want to push native games and use of Metal, but they've been banging that drum for a while now with little movement.  Maybe the success than Valve has been seeing is getting them to re-evaluate.

    I seriously doubt Apple will ever promote or release this tool kit as an “emulator”. However, I thought I read somewhere that DX12 support is coming to Crossover later this year, so it makes me wonder if Apple is going to push their code back into the WINE project.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Vision Pro safety concerns limit 'fully immersive' apps

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    jdw said:
    geekmee said:
    jgreg728 said:
    And here is a major reason why this technology will not be replacing any current devices anytime soon.
    Yes, it will be a utter failure…
    just like Apple’s other failures.
    You mean like...
    • Pippin
    • Hockey Puck Mouse
    • Butterfly Keyboards
    • Lisa 1 with Twiggy Drives (even though UI elements of the LISA OS made their way into the Mac)
    • Apple III
    • eWorld
    • Newton & eMate (no, it did NOT evolve into the iPhone)
    • Macintosh Portable (totally different from the PowerBooks which came later)
    • iTunes PING
    • AirPower (hyped, but never released charging pad)
    • Pretty much the entire PERFORMA line
    • Copland, Cyberdog, Open-Doc, QuickDrawGX, and...
    • QuickTimeVR, which I always felt was outstanding tech, but where is it today?

    I do not say this to suggest VisionPro will fail.  I say this to combat flippant replies.  There are people who, without using their brain at all, casually claim VisionPro will fail, and then you have the opposite extreme who mock and say it absolutely will not.

    NONE OF US KNOW FOR SURE!  

    That's the point.  I hope VisionPro will succeed in the market where others like Meta and Microsoft have failed.  Apple certainly has the reach and the money to do something other big companies cannot.  But in the end, consumer acceptance and sheer sales will define it as a success or failure, just like all the other items I just listed.

    WE SHALL SEE.

    You listed three things from this century (you forgot the iPod HiFi speaker and G4 Cube) and they are relatively minor failures, not entire product lines such as, iPod, iPhone, iPad, watch, TV, M-series Macs... all of which were/are huge hits. The Vision Pro is a new product line. It is the first and it will fail just as much as the original iPhone.
    tmaywatto_cobra

  • Apple Car is a matter of 'when, not if' claims analyst

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    AppleZulu said:
    mjtomlin said:
    Personally I don't think Apple is making cars to buy, but rather designing and building self-driving electric vehicles for a ride sharing service.
    It seems unlikely that Apple would want to operate a ride sharing service. It also seems unlikely that Apple would want to attach its brand to some other company that is operating a ride sharing service. I can't really think of any examples of other Apple businesses where they produce a device that isn't for sale directly to consumers. Can you?

    It would be their own service, not a 3rd party.

    Apple did invest $1 billion in "Didi Chuxing", a Chinese ride sharing service in 2016. They also operate their own corporate service in and around their headquarters in Cupertino. So it is a market they're currently interested in.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Car is a matter of 'when, not if' claims analyst

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    Personally I don't think Apple is making cars to buy, but rather designing and building self-driving electric vehicles for a ride sharing service.
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