Apple Announces Augmented Reality Headset

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And it's only $3,500 and will be available to all suckers with more money than sense early next year. This is the first totally new hardware since the Apple Watch in 2016. They look more like goggles than the thick VR headsets of today and allow a full view of your environment, overlaid with virtual objects of your desire that you can interact with. Standalone battery life will be two hours. However, it uses a separately wired battery pack as a trade off to being slim.

So, you can watch movies, pull up Apps and operate it using hand gestures. Even write with it. It's not actually been perceived as being appealing to the mass market though due to the high price and likely specialized usage.

But, I'm sure this will not deter any of you from rushing out and buying one!
  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    You are older than me do you not remember how expensive and slow the first internet PCs where with 33 MHz pentium chips a fee dozen mega bits of hard drive space and a 56k modem that needed a phone line and an internet provider.

    They where 2500$ in1996$ money.

    My issue with apple is after spending 3500$ if anything goes wrong. You probably will have to send them back to apple or take them into an apple store to fix . Then probably have a99$ a month service fee through the apple store to use them. Then if you don't want to pay the fees or try to fix the device yourself they stop working permanently.

    If people are ok with never actually owning something they pay that much money for fine. I'll wait another 5 years for the 100$ pair of ar goggles from some company that does not exist yet.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

      You are older than me do you not remember how expensive and slow the first internet PCs where with 33 MHz pentium chips a fee dozen mega bits of hard drive space and a 56k modem that needed a phone line and an internet provider.

      They where 2500$ in1996$ money.

      My issue with apple is after spending 3500$ if anything goes wrong. You probably will have to send them back to apple or take them into an apple store to fix . Then probably have a99$ a month service fee through the apple store to use them. Then if you don't want to pay the fees or try to fix the device yourself they stop working permanently.

      If people are ok with never actually owning something they pay that much money for fine. I'll wait another 5 years for the 100$ pair of ar goggles from some company that does not exist yet.
      Oh, I will have to take your name of the reservation list then. Yeah, I worked at PC World, Currys and Byte Computers in the UK. My first PC was an MMX 200 megahertz single core Pentium with 32 megs of ram. That was 1500.00 UK pounds in 1998 with a 14" monitor. It had a 56k modem in it. Own brand name too.

      Just a few years later I bought a 400mhz Celeron for 400 pounds and then a couple of years later an EMachine that was 1.73 gigahertz for about 250 pounds. Prices just plummeted .

      I currently have an i9 10th gen with a 4 gig graphics card, 64 gigs of ram, a Terabyte SSD and a 2 terabyte HD. That cost me $2000.00 a few years back. My biggest investment ever, should be relatively futureproof for a few years.

      I would not spend 3.5k on a VR device either. It will all be so much cheaper in a year or two.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    As far as ar or vr I have no use for or interest at this time. I had my time where I spent a lot of time online playing video games. But the current situation I get bored of any game or it starts to feel like a job with miserable tasks that need to be done every day. That gets boring after a few days or at most a few weeks.

    Of course I'm making the assumption the primary use of these things is some type of online video game playing. On a home use basis.there is adult content of course. I'm sure some guys will spend 3500 to view a 100 pairs of women's feet or hundreds of pairs of feet for hours a day.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

      As far as ar or vr I have no use for or interest at this time. I had my time where I spent a lot of time online playing video games. But the current situation I get bored of any game or it starts to feel like a job with miserable tasks that need to be done every day. That gets boring after a few days or at most a few weeks.

      Of course I'm making the assumption the primary use of these things is some type of online video game playing. On a home use basis.there is adult content of course. I'm sure some guys will spend 3500 to view a 100 pairs of women's feet or hundreds of pairs of feet for hours a day.
      I just saw an official video advertising the Apple device (but it was embedded in a YT vid) . It was impressive. Above 4k too, but it was just like having your movie screens or apps just hanging in space in front of you in the room you are in, semi 3d, which you can see perfectly by the way. I did not see virtual objects sitting on your table or anything like that. You could do wrap around landscapes as background and expand the screen you are looking at. They showed a person sitting on a plane using it watching a large screen movie and had replaced the background which blotted out any cabin view. The audio is supposed to be immersive and personal too.

      One thing that was interesting. A woman sat on a bed with her Apple laptop open and the screen popped up in space in front of her in large format. The hand gestures were good too, you could have several screens open and scroll up and down with your fingers on internet pages etc. But, some of this you can do on the Quest. What you can do on this Apple device is get up and walk around while doing stuff with the apps. You can see where your going.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    Well this is a bit futuristic but partly doable now with as many cameras there are everywhere. Combine AI and quantum computing with real time feed from camera. And with these ar/ vr headsets.

    Say you are virtually able to attend any live event and Stan on the stage with in front of the the person speaking and turn and look at the crowd response.

    It partly doable today on expensive gear but in a few years a few hundred dollars worth of gear and a virtual ticket to a live concert and you get the on stage experience

    Here is another as these things come down in price. Someone with a garden of any size not on a tight budget can put extremely cheap sensors in their garden to monitor soil conditions and camera systems that can identify pests and other problems. And the human with the goggles can be guided to the spot with the main problem.

    This is as such devices get far cheaper
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  • I really like this theme with the development of modern technology! I think that you should not be angry at Apple for the fact that they are moving progress forward. The main thing is that all these technologies are kept in good hands.
    I myself work (link removed per forum rules) and provide services for the repair of household appliances. And now I find myself thinking that I need to expand my capabilities and understand VR devices, because soon helmets will be in every home. Accordingly, I will appliance repair costs. Not only from Apple but also other brands are used. I found a lot of positive things in it both for myself and for society. This is in addition to the fact that once I played in a club in vr and I was very pleasantly surprised. Although the brain worked quite differently
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