Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos

Oh. My. Goodness.

$3,500?!? HAHAHAHAHAHA

take a deep breath and realize; if you cannot afford this, you are not rich enough to be part of apples target audience.

no matter how much you want to tell yourself that you are.

Half of the US can't afford a $1000 emergency. $3500 for a toy seems steep in that context.

Is 25 minutes a long enough in-store demo test time to have a $3500 wank?

Oh hey, it’s that time again. Copy-pasting from the last time around…

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Because the price is always the main topic, I’m gonna drop a link to an AR/VR expert contextualizing the Vision Pro price within the current (well, 7 months ago) market:

Apple Just Beat the “BEST VR Headset In the WORLD”.. and did it cheaper.

Oh yeah like I wanna get head lice from the snot-nosed kid some mom dumped there so she could go get some Starbucks in peace.

The price is always the joke, but this is aimed at commercial buyers right? Not consumers

Id buy it right now if it was maybe $500.

Spatial computing is the future.

I don't need 3 screens. I need a pair of spectacles.

Screens have always been the bottleneck. The phone tablet monitor tv.

Glasses can do entire field of vision.

That’s a no from me dawg

I’d buy one if it were useful enough.

A $2k CAD phone I can justify if it’s going to hold me in good stead over the next 6 years and have another 6 full OS upgrades straight from the manufacturer. My iPhone X held up great for 6 years, and only started struggling in 2023.

A $3,500 USD fashion accessory? What are they smoking, and can I have some?

And I thought buying an iPhone was crazy...

If it’s anything like my other VR headsets the novelty wears off in 10.. this runs dangerously close to not getting to the bottom of my cupboard with all the other shithouse headsets

Its an apple product, I don't feel like wasting money on overpriced closed source garbage

It's Apple. I expected nothing less than the most ridiculously priced products to be produced by them. So the figure is eye watering but expected. If these sellout, as some predict, it proves unequivocally that Apple fanboys are the most rabid idiots in existence.

Is this VR or AR or both? And how robust is the actual software support?

Careful there, that's about the amount of time it takes to realize that it's just a gimmick that has no use in your personal life, and very narrow industrial application. They might actually lose potential buyers rather than gain some.

I reckon this is a proof of concept model. It doesn’t yet have the onboard oomph to do graphics and games yet, so they’re positioning it as a spatial display.

This will probably be more limited than the v1 iPad, definitely for early adopters.

Technology used to be more about solving a problem or making something difficult easier. This thing has no real use beyond "neat". But that Apple logo holds some very powerful magic for certain people.

can I put expensive wheels on it?

This is dead tech, they're only pushing it because it is 10 years of billions in R&D and a lot of egos involved

Can't wait to see people wearing those around the office. Thinking about it. if you remove the desk, monitors, keyboard, mouse and just sit down bunch of programmers next to each other with those goggles it can actually be cheaper for the company to run an office even at 3.5k per headset.

No thanks. I have never, and will never give any money to apple.

I wholeheartedly believe that Apple is a marketing company more than a tech company.

Can’t wait for these demos to be the new Covid epicenters.

Mixed reality has a ton of potential seeing the Quest 3, but they are usually not seamless enough.

If Apple can pull this one off then 3500 is a lot of money but some people spend this much on a TV or a bike. If it's a truly amazing AR experience it might be well worth that price.

Such a waste of potential.