CheeseFreeze

I wish Apple the best. Many other countries have spoken.

VictorMortimer said:

"Before Apple Vision Pro, it was common for headsets to mostly be all-encompassing virtual reality ones. You can bet that from now on, all higher-end headsets will have pass-through video of the outside world."

No you can't.

The whole point of VR is to be immersive.  Seeing the outside world is a bug, not a feature.

I'm not at all convinced that AR has much of a future for most of us.  I could see it being somewhat useful in limited situations, but for general purpose use it just seems like a dead end.

I’m in VR myself (mostly learning, previously gaming) and I can tell you there are a lot of use cases for AR in addition to VR.

For example training people in context of their own environment, layering virtual humans and objects in an environment that is ‘understood’ by the application. Similarly designing future states of environments (e.g construction work).
For consumer use it’s harder to find compelling use-cases unless the glasses are the same as regular, fashionable ones, in which case it’s not hard to find compelling use-cases (navigation, translation, video recording, etc)

Okay so the article starts with many paragraphs about product positioning, which almost comes across as if it’s defending Apple in preparation of a hypothetical product launch. 

AppleZulu said:

So this is where we see letting third-party vendors have that level of access to the OS in order to provide security becomes a vulnerability in itself. 

Nonsense. Good standards don’t let third parties to operate “on an OS level” since that access is not needed to begin with. In case of Apple and Microsoft they provide APIs and frameworks that other vendors can use. They stay within these boundaries (or there wouldn’t be a standard).

Not only most of Apple Intelligence releases in 2025, it is very US centric.