I can think a couple of uses like working on my motorcycle with the service manual floating above it, getting reference pictures or line art to trace while drawing, having AR features to learn playing guitar or drums. All niche cases, and certainly not worth 3500 for it.
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Lydia_K@startrek.website 8 months agoWhat would you use it for? Honest question.
I can’t see using it for work. Writing a long email with an onscreen keyboard is not realistic.
It doesn’t really play games.
So it’s for watching YouTube on your face? I have a TV and couch that do that, and a phone in my pocket 24/7 that will do that. I honestly can’t figure out the use case.
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 8 months ago
astrsk@kbin.social 8 months ago
If you’re doing any writing on it that’s beyond a quick text or search, you’d either use dictation or a connected MacBook’s keyboard, or a connected wireless keyboard. The pass-through is so clear and lag free that you can just look at the physical keyboard if you need to / can’t touch type.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How big is your TV? Smaller than 1200 inches I’m guessing? How portable is it? Good luck carrying a building sized TV in your backpack.
Vision Pro is too expensive for me but I totally get the attraction for TV alone. Some people spend a lot more on a worse viewing experience
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m not at all a soccer fan, but the soccer demo was fucking impressive. If they had that coverage of the NFL (and the pricing of that service wasn’t also obscene), I would find it even harder to resist.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Today? Building stuff. The app ecosystem isn’t there for casual audiences yet, because devs need their hands on it to do most stuff that utilizes what it can do. You can’t build much more than the basics using a phone to test.
You don’t have to use an on screen keyboard. It supports Bluetooth mouse and keyboard perfectly fine. The bigger restriction is the number of windows to me, but there are ways to make that work.
Interacting with and laying out information in 3D space is just different from doing it on a 2D display. Our brain understands 3D space intuitively in a pretty deep way. There would be some level of “OK, I turned my MacBook display in bed into a 500 foot screen next to a waterfall”, and stuff like the demo 3D videos of animals were super immersive. I did feel like I could reach out and touch them.
But I want to build out the books in my personal collection into a 3D library with shelves to browse. I want to see stuff I’m modeling in actual 3D instead of one 2D angle at a time I have to manipulate to get different perspectives on. I want to plan out a room layout by standing in the middle of the room and virtually dragging them around. I’m just spitballing a couple of the first things that come to mind, but AR Kit is powerful and capable of all of that with relative ease. I can think of countless other “small” things that change the experience compared to doing stuff on a monitor pretty significantly. I don’t think it’s that different to people saying “you can do whatever on a computer”. Sure, but as it gets into more hands and more people are able to build apps for it, people will come up with all kinds of uses that fundamentally feel different even if the same core thing can be done on existing hardware.
Lydia_K@startrek.website 8 months ago
Ok cool, if I may take a swing at summarizing what you said?
What you are really talking about are the potential applications of AR (Augmented Reality), which I will totally agree with, that is a future state that is coming, unfortunately those apps mostly don’t exist for the consumer space yet, but they will.
The apple headset being the first commercially available headset that does AR well.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Pretty much. AR has amazing potential and Apple waited to enter the space until they could provide something that can actually do AR without the massive compromises other headsets people pretend can do AR have to make.
I haven’t bought one yet because it’s a lot of money. But I did get to do the in store demo and it crosses a bunch of minimum thresholds nothing else does. They’ve been building to this for a long time.
The other benefit is that, as much as they control distribution, Apple’s set of libraries/etc for software development make it extremely possible to make actual money developing reasonably high quality apps for iPhone/iPad as a solo developer. ARKit on iPhone already has led to solo developers being able to do real AR phone apps (with limited scope because you’re looking through a phone obviously). It’s definitely the first and most accessible way to build AR functionality compared to the limited enterprise headsets (with their own limitations) with whatever tooling they had. When they announce the next, more affordable version, they’ll have a huge head start on an ecosystem because this is out there.
Lydia_K@startrek.website 8 months ago
Thank you very much for your thoughtful and detailed replies, it is much appreciated. This headset finally makes some kind of sense for what it is.
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Whatever app starts to be compelling, may even be your house.
Imagine all your ebooks on a shelf like a library, your music on a cd rack, and you can browse them almost like physically. Imagine working outside with a view of the ocean you don’t have. Imagine porn being going into a virtual room with specific lighting and music. Heck, imagine sitting on the toilet and have your tiny, moldy, outdated bathroom appear to be a vast Roman bathhouse, or that outhouse on the edge of a cliff
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The virtual environments you can switch to are pretty cool, and the fidelity is really good.
Unfortunately they told me you can’t capture your own (at least not currently) for the background, which is too bad. I would absolutely make a spot in my camera bag to bring it on hikes to do video captures of cool spots anyways, though.
dominiquec@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You da MVP! Thanks for sharing your experience.