Apple Vision Pro launched at WWDC over a week ago and they showed a lot of clips of normal people wearing it doing (relatively) normal things, like cooking, watching movies, even working at the office.
One clip that really intrigued me was the one where a father was recording his kids in 3D through his Vision Pro. To me, this seemed off at first since to other people, it may not look like you’re present in the moment. But after thinking about it for a while, isn’t it the same as just wearing sunglasses, if not better? Sunglasses block your eyes, but Vision Pro would show your eyes to the outside world.
So I guess the question is, will Apple Vision Pro and subsequent products become widely socially acceptable one day?
There’s also the space requirement which isn’t really talked about enough. To enjoy the experience without being worried about bumping into stuff and destroying your house you do really need a decent amount of space that many people just don’t have.
When PSVR came out, we had a teeny tiny condo at the time, and I think it took me an hour before I had put my fist through the light in our living room.
That’s what I thought was so cool about Apple Vision. No controllers, UI is navigated by eye tracking…
And more focus on non-gaming tasks that should be much more small space freindly.
It’s not even just about whether you have a house/apartment big enough, you kind of have to design the room around it. Unless you can literally set aside a whole room just for VR, you’ll probably have it set up in your office or living room, and from that point on you’re severely limiting what you can do with that room, because you need to keep it as open as possible.
Me and my wife have ours in the living, which works great, except that now we can’t have a coffee table