It’s the engagement metrics because what’s more engaging than being immersed in a virtual world. Can you smell that sweet ad moolah? I sure can’t.

But the point of the device for FB is to avoid issues like apple and their cookie privacy thing. If they lose this battle to apple, they’re fucked.

What are you talking about? Haven’t you seen the Tim Cook bloody machete photo from Venezuela a few years back? He’s wearing an apple t shirt in it.

Why? There's effort going into this because there's at least some market validation on it.

I’m willing to bet No Man’s Sky for Mac/iPad will launch alongside this and that it’ll have VR support for Apple’s headset. No way they supported porting efforts for one of the best VR titles just so they can have another Mac/iPad game. They want a big title to launch the new headset with.

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How do you like it? I like the idea of the long battery life of these.

Hate the way technology is going, this is just weird to me.

What is it like FaceTiming / messenger with avatars instead of real faces in VR?

Just don’t like the idea of it.

It's just incredible the level of toxicity Apple topics brings out in people.

Here you are unable to help yourself. Frothing at the mouth like an animal needing to try to insult me. And you do it while unironically calling me a caveman! It's fantastic! 😅

this is such a silly take. know why the iPod cutting edge you mouth breathing cave man?

Because my grandmother can use it. And she’s dead.

Everything Apple does has existed before to some extent. The difference is they solve the problem, which is different than trying to sell you technology.

If you’re old enough to remember how PCs were advertised back in the day, everyone made their choice on chips and ram and cache. a classic race to the bottom where the consumer gets screwed.

Contrast that with Apple, where the only specs that matter are the finish. You know it will work for 90% of what you wanna do and you probably don’t need to reboot it within the first year. Nothing is even close in terms of customer experience from opening the box to getting service to incorporating your family members to other ecosystem components.

Your take might be the most ignorant and infuriating on Apple I’ve ever read, and I am an android guy!

I think Apple needs the first generation to go out at it's expensive price in order to be able to produce 2nd and 3rd gen at pricing closer to the 1k mark. As with all Apple products, advice is to stay away from first gen unless you have no limit to your disposable income because second gen has significant improvements and is almost always cheaper. HomePod is another example of this, it cost way too much to produce and had a near zero profit margin with it's first gen. Second gen was re-engineered to be both better and much cheaper to produce, so now I see people actually buying it.

Yeah PlayStation VR will probably be good, but it will have no real impact on wider VR/AR/MR. It's more like a PS5 add on.

It's my favorite monster hunter machine. Can run rise out of the box, flawlessly, can run world with some tweaking of settings, can run older games via emulation, can run dragon's dogma, out of the box, and allows for all these damned games to be played, modded.

> with realistic anatomy

Apple might not do it, but somebody is going to put some anime titties on an avatar. It’s inevitable. Lol

I’m not terribly worried about false positives with a device like this, unless it happens repeatedly to the same person — there are a whole lot of undiagnosed, asymptomatic heart conditions out there, so even if it gets them to the cardiologist on a “false alarm”, I would imagine that some nontrivial percent of those people could find something that they didn’t know to look for by getting their heart checked out.

Research indicates VR has a 28% CAGR by 2028, the fasting growing rate of all media. They can come out net positive if they leverage this trend judiciously.

You don't have to own an iPhone for one. Apple rules out a portion of the market just by that and I'm perfectly happy with my venu 2.

Even if it’s bad, Apple will overtake meta.

They will.

There's motion sickness on things you can avoid - like boats and plane. And then there's motion sickness with something many are touting as the future of work.

One of those things is not like the other.

A virtual machine isn't "running it" on the laptop, in my opinion. But it's fine for many people. In a pinch I do that, but really prefer running on bare metal.

Take a lesson from Meta’s failing strategy and drop the avatar b.s. We don’t need another Second Life.

I just don’t see mile long lines of people waiting to get their hands on VR. It’s a cool idea though. Of course I could be wrong. I think apple should take a step back and focus on something that mostly nobody else is doing or putting that much effort into.

Exactly my point. Why can't they do the same thing with MR/VR/AR?

Well mp3s weren’t cutting edge because walkmans existed before it.

And walkmans weren’t such a big deal, because we already had things like vinyl players.

And don’t even get me started on vinyl players. helloooo, phonographic cylindersss.