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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 (www.apple.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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I honestly doubt this will take off, but it'll be interesting as a tech demo for what AR/VR can be at the highest end.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't consider it AR because it's still a fully virtual environment the user is interacting with, granted it's built convincingly from the camera feeds. If the lens were a clear passthrough into the real world+layering virtual elements over it then I think it falls under AR.

It's mostly semantics though. The line between AR and VR has been fuzzy since we started shoving camera passthrough on devices.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, your comment is the first time it's been made clear to me that this thing isn't actually see-through and that's just a screen on the outside. I thought it was essentially a sleeker looking Hololens. I've had the wrong impression of this thing the entire time, and now I'm much less impressed by it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lol, yeah, and what's crazy to me is they have the inner eye tracking cams projecting the user's expressions back to that outer screen. Incredibly complicated implementation soaking up precious compute cycles, for no real reason or benefit. Normal Apple things. I think the outer screen goes dark if the user goes into "full VR" mode to watch a movie or whatever