Waiting for the technology to mature so they can build their ecosystem for the future?
IMO it's not really VR though because with everything they showed nothing was really immersive like taking you into a world for you to interact with. It's more AR than anything but you're right I was watchign a second stream from a Apple streamer and his audience and himself were acting like this was the biggest innovation we've seen in years lol. The price is ridiculous but sadly I can see it selling out no problem Apple fans are pretty die hard. I think the hard challenge is without controllers how will you be able to deliver an immersive experience because hand gesture technology in this space just isn't there yet and really with Apple arcade all you're really doing is emulating a virtual screen to play games.
Isn't it literally a VR headset tho? I think AR has been generally assumed to be a transparent film/screen that is also a digital display. The Vision Pro is not that. It's a VR headset with (hopefully a few gens ahead) camera pass through. They didn't show a lot of AR applications, particularly out of the house. For example, an AR use-case is GTA-style bread crumbs that guide you to a product in a store. Most of what they showed was media and productivity based.
Because VR will go mainstream outside of video games. Apple is marketing this as computing, not gaming.
Possibly, I guess I always classified AR as looking through a lens that has things displayed in the real world (kind of like the Google glasses) where VR is closed off like a fake world that you get immersed in. I guess it's a grey area but Tim did call it an AR device at the start so I guess who knows it's still kind of early and it'll be interesting to see what else they bring to it. I will be interested in seeing if they do anything with games, I mean right now it's basically like playing an apple arcade game on a screen in your headset and I will be interested to see if they could pull a game off like the competitors are offering without controllers.
