Apple is incredible at a lot of things and no doubt this is impressive. Apple's entire lineup is the best version of things people already have and use. A computer, a laptop, a screen, a phone, a watch, headphones, speakers. The tablet was new but made sense as a replacement for books/newspaper/laptop.
I have been in the vr space since the dk1 and used a bunch of headsets in both consumer and professional settings. It is magical if not a bit gimmicky...in short bursts. It can do wondrous things like give you a sense of scale or transport you to another environment.
But it's not an extension for or replacement of the real world.
The use case is gaming, media consumption on mass transit, and niche professional use cases (eg how to do heart surgery, or fix an engine, or location scout a movie) where 3d visualization adds meaningful context to the process.
It's not billions of people. Or rather if it is, then we are all plugged into ready player one and I think that would be a sad outcome for our species.
Maybe we are already headed that way with the amount of screen time everyone is putting in these days. Time to log off and go for a run.
I have been in the vr space since the dk1 and used a bunch of headsets in both consumer and professional settings. It is magical if not a bit gimmicky...in short bursts. It can do wondrous things like give you a sense of scale or transport you to another environment.
But it's not an extension for or replacement of the real world.
The use case is gaming, media consumption on mass transit, and niche professional use cases (eg how to do heart surgery, or fix an engine, or location scout a movie) where 3d visualization adds meaningful context to the process.
It's not billions of people. Or rather if it is, then we are all plugged into ready player one and I think that would be a sad outcome for our species.
Maybe we are already headed that way with the amount of screen time everyone is putting in these days. Time to log off and go for a run.