I think Facebook would actually be glad, they need anyone and everyone in the AR/VR space to make it more mainstream

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Nope they were just fanboi starvation, sort of like Tesla golf carts etc

Apple stuff is complete crap, its all driven by fanbois and Apple trying to scare you with privacy /security bullshit

I tracked a bug in HomeKit (one of many) when I worked for Apple that was stupendously, egregiously bad. I agree with this comment.

It’s both. Marketing and positioning has a synchronous relationship with how the product is designed and therefore what technologies it requires. Viewing these aspects as isolated concepts isn’t correct.

iPods? iPhones? Smart watches? And earlier, desktops and laptops? Apple’s entrance into all of these categories essentially created the category (for the pedants, yes I know the categories technically existed, but you know it’s not what I mean). By definition, the first mass-market product in a category is cutting-edge.

I’m old enough (sadly) to remember the pre-iPod days. The iPod wasn’t an iteration on the existing mp3 players. It was cutting-edge enough that it birthed a new type of product. Same is true for the iPhone, and the same may be true of this headset.

Why is FDA-cleared the main buzzword here?

Who is this for? I barely have time for reality. And that time I like to actually go outside.

Have you ever heard of an iPhone, iPod, iPad, or AirPods? All cutting edge niche products in the beginning.

Honestly, nobody is doing smart home stuff that well.

I think you can do that with FaceTime now. It’s a little cartoony. Mostly I see kids using it to goof off but I can see it getting better over time.

What's the difference between what they are talking about and regular filters that change your bodies appearance in most video chat applications across pc/android?

> They are just using the term FaceTime to mean a videocall, but the VR version - like VRChat.

We don’t know that. I wouldn’t put it past apple to develop an AR FaceTime with avatars over real backgrounds

Yeah obv should have put a 4090 in it

Say what you will about Apple, but they haven’t been complicit in genocides and the proliferation of fascism globally.

Edit: gotta love the people who downvote this. Which is it- you hate apple so much that hearing they aren’t complicit in genocide makes you angry, or is it that you’re unaware of Facebook’s track record?

Wow, crazy.

It’s just a new form of technology and social interactions. No one forcing you or anyone else to participate. If it’s not your thing…then why even comment?

You realize the, apple pc, iPhone, and the Apple Watch, all were iterations if an already existing product.

I don't like the idea of enabling people to do more work on airplanes.

But, that's how technology progresses. There was a rare time in the 90s/early 2000s before commonplace laptops and cellphones with plane travel (and train travel for that matter) that meant you'd have leisure time on business trips. Sure, you could read the news and write things down, but you were impossible to contact. Now some people feel anxious and want to do work on planes and stay in touch to "get things done". Can't imagine the constant work VR will enable. Although, on the otherside of this coin is VR connecting families.

This could be one reason…

“The feature itself isn’t that revolutionary”

Apples 2024 layoffs.

And also Apple is a hardware and software integrated company. They have been making hardware devices longer and better than almost anyone else.

FB’s record of hardware isn’t exactly stellar.

Everything body who works in tech knows Steve Jobs faked his death to work on a mixed reality headset. He will be announcing his alive status and introducing the headset very soon.

Apples new product will conform to conventions in set in previous products?! Wow!

I personally expected it to conform to windows phone’s style.