Mike Wuerthele

Rogue01 said:

Stop comparing it to the iPhone.  The iPhone solved the bad smartphone market.  Re-watch the iPhone keynote which showed 4 typical bad smartphones.  The iPhone solved the problem with those phones.  VisionPro solves nothing.  No one cares about AR.  No one wants to wear goggles.  No ever said, I wish there was a better headset.  The VisionPro is a homeless product because it is an answer looking for a question.  And $3500 won't fix that.

Articles are now coming out confirming a 45% return rate on VisionPro.  Reasons - Uncomfortable, headaches, motion sickness, doesn't offer anything more than what is already done on your phone or computer, when something happens on your phone, you can't see your phone clearly through the cameras, and...most would rather look at their computer directly, not through goggles.

Have no idea why Apple made this product when no one has been interested in AR/VR for decades.  3DTV failed because people did not even want to wear glasses, let alone a heavy pair of goggles to watch TV.  I would rather work directly on my Mac with multiple displays, than try and visually control it with heavy goggles on my face, and be limited to one screen only.

tmay said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

jSnively said:

cpsro said:

Vision Pro could show Boeing assembly line workers where to put the bolts.

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Arguably, too late.

Or too early.

One of my engineering buddies worked for Boeing years ago, and they were using primitive googles, or a basic LED display, connected to a portable CD drive, for their maintenance workers, so that they didn't have to carry a stack of maintenance manuals with them. 

Boeing's problem is that they aren't run by engineers anymore, with headquarters in Chicago, and Boeing shipped the commercial aviation assembly jobs to South Carolina, where the labor is cheap, but cut corners on proper management, I'd have to assume that their military oriented facilities in St. Louis, MO, and Renton, WA are better, but who knows.

jayschim said:

"The battery is rated at 3166 mAh capacity with 35.9 Wh. That means adding an additional 10,000 mAh battery should extend battery life to about 12 hours." This is totally incorrect. Most standard powerbanks like Anker are based on 3.6v. The vision pro is at 13v. It's the total watt hrs that people need to focus on. That said a standard 10000mah power bank at 3.6v is 36Wh, but there is inefficiency battery to battery that results in some loss, so don't expect to get double the time.

godofbiscuitssf said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

cipnrkorvo said:

Any chance this allows for connecting other USB accessories (like Apple dongles or a USB key?)
 Has any developer tried that out?

We have, and nothing works.

Is it usb2 hardware? 

mfryd said:

It's the frequency, not the duty cycle that's important.  Many Modern LED lights flicker at 100Hz or 120Hz depending on where you are in the world.  TV Screens flicker somewhere between 25Hz and 240Hz, depending on what you are watching and the specific TV.   

Video games have warnings because they may have content that includes explosions.  These explosions may included flashes of light that are turning on/off 7 to 10 times per second (that's 7Hz to 10Hz).

My understanding is that the Apple Vision Pro has a refresh (flicker) rate of at least 90Hz.  That's not typically an issue