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DocUpdate said:

It feels like Ready Player One meets swimming goggles. Have a look at what it offers with an open mind ... Unfortunately, I think it needs to be less intrusive, less costly for it to really take off. Maybe version 2 like google glass. Thoughts?

nubus said:

Social isolation as a product? I agree with those stating that it is good for wealthy singles - if you like ending up as a couch potato as happened to all the persons shown. It probably requires a max dose of Wegovy for you to stay fit.

In-flight entertainment but only for flights <2 hours? You can run Office (why!) while waving your hands (this requires major changes to interior design and open offices). It has FakeTime with your faux persona taking the spot - you will look the same distant you every day. The device is a technical marvel but a $3500... this could however end up being used massively by defence.

twolf2919 said:

I watched the introduction and couldn't help but laugh when I saw this thing: like a mix of ski and scuba goggles - bonus: the "see through" eyes that seem slightly larger than real-life LOL.  Then I noticed the tether that every shot tried so desperately to hide - in hair, scarfs...anything.  By the time I saw the price I already knew this was DOA - the $3500 was just the flowers on the grave.

Don't get me wrong: from a technical perspective, Apple did an amazing job.  But this product is done in by its form factor - nobody wants to be even more isolated than they already are by wearing dorky goggles, tethered to some batteries in your pocket no less - and by the lack of a killer app.   You heard the word "replace" a lot during the presentation - it can "replace" a large screen TV (not mentioned, of course, is that it can only do so when you're alone)...it can replace multiple monitors so you can work with more of your apps (of course, interacting with those apps is a lot more clumsy than with a physical keyboard and mouse/touchpad)....I kept looking for the metaphor that best fits this product as presented - "jumped the shark" came to mind.  Apple just threw everything it had at the board and hoped that something will stick to make this product succeed.  But I really don't see a standout feature I'd pay $3500 for.  Heck - I don't see a standout feature I'd pay $1000 for.  Now - if this had been presented in a nice pair of stylish AR glasses without an insane tether to an external battery, I might have been convinced....wait another 3-5 years, I guess.

9secondkox2 said:

Looks horrible. Total bill gates need level. Non even resembles apple design. Wastes battery with the outside screen. 

And you wear the thing from your head to your waist? Serious? 

Looks like it was meant to be glasses but apple wanted to rush it out before the glasses could be feasible. 

Looks like a solution looking for a problem. 

Actually could be a problem. !!!!!  that this product is announced right after Sumbul Dasani addresses the problems of having a screen too close to your eyes - and this thing puts the screen less than an inch away. 

Not compelling. But a fun toy. 

At least they got a Jony Ive soundalike to talk about the “design.” LOL

Iger talking up these amazing new experiences that are just vague ideas, but ending with the reality: “oh. Um. Disney plus.” Pretty sad. So far, not really different use cases than other devices.