Apple Thread II | AirPods Pros Announced

[Tomous]

$3,500

[KK]

When they can get this into something that resembles a pair of sunglasses and under a grand, then it’ll be commonplace I think.

A real glimpse into the future. As it is, too bulky, too expensive, and the battery life is crap. 2 hours wouldn’t exactly get you through The Batman…

[No:1 Final Fantasy Fan]

Wow this is so exciting. Im sure in time they will become more affordable and widespread. And people say Apple don't innovate anymore Knowing Samsung they will just copy it now...

That is just incredible I can't believe what I just saw. Love how it fits with your surroundings rather than being just a VR headset and you can't tell wants happening around you.

[Edd]

That whole video feels like an unsettling Black Mirror promo.

[Victor Mildew]

Oh cool apple invented VR!

[Moggy]

$3.5k

And it's Apple. It won't even be any good until version 3 or 4. And then it'll cost $5k.

[Xeno]

Some sad sack is going outside with them on and will be mugged so fast, then some strawberry floater is going to try driving wearing them.

[Carlos]

It has industrial use written all over it. I can think of a lot of uses for this at work.

But at home? Pass.

[RichardUK]

This has blown me away and I will be getting this as soon as it’s available, the only VR I have tried was PSVR and although certain things I found impressive the main thing was that it felt claustrophobic and made me extremely sick (the first time I tried it I was actually sick and then felt I’ll more the week after) this however looks like it won’t feel like that, being able to see the real world around you will take away the closed in feeling and hopefully any sickness, the films and photos look amazing and think that will be what I mainly use it for, I really can’t wait for this

[D_C]

I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention to this, but how come the view inside looks different to how it should?

You'd only see the eyes, no?


Interested to see how this does, but Hololens failed to take off apart from niche business usage. At 3.5k, I can see this going the same way.

[Green Gecko]

If it costs someone something like 5,000 quid to realise virtualising data, devices and functionality around them is about as good, except considerably worse in just about every possible way (for example the inability to touch or feel anything or co experience things, or be actually present) when compared to just working with physical equivalents, then fine.

I expect things to come full circle and for professionals and creatives to realise we were doing good and effective work that way the whole strawberry floating time and AR is replicating that, badly.

Anyhow, in very specific applications like I just had some ideas for treating trauma or 3D modelling and gooseberry fool like that, it might be useful or interesting, just get the company to pay for it lol.

But all of the extremely limited functionality of something like iPad pro, except in your face (I kept hearing "in your space" and hearing "in your face" instead )? Wonderful. Have fun with that and then do it on a computer anyway or have your minions do it properly while you play minority report in your loft apartment.

[jimbojango]

I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention to this, but how come the view inside looks different to how it should?

You'd only see the eyes, no?


Interested to see how this does, but Hololens failed to take off apart from niche business usage. At 3.5k, I can see this going the same way.

As I understand it, it projects an image of you eyes externally it is never actually transparent at all. I was interested in how it works on FaceTime - it again generates an avatar rather than showing you with your ski goggles on. Great for impersonating someone else…..

[satriales]

For that price you could buy 3 monitor stands: https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/M ... /pro-stand

[rinks]

I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention to this, but how come the view inside looks different to how it should?

You'd only see the eyes, no?


Interested to see how this does, but Hololens failed to take off apart from niche business usage. At 3.5k, I can see this going the same way.

As I understand it, it projects an image of you eyes externally it is never actually transparent at all. I was interested in how it works on FaceTime - it again generates an avatar rather than showing you with your ski goggles on. Great for impersonating someone else…..

Probably scans your retina to make sure it's you.

[jiggles]

It scans your irises, but I know that’s what you mean.

[jimbojango]

I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention to this, but how come the view inside looks different to how it should?

You'd only see the eyes, no?


Interested to see how this does, but Hololens failed to take off apart from niche business usage. At 3.5k, I can see this going the same way.

As I understand it, it projects an image of you eyes externally it is never actually transparent at all. I was interested in how it works on FaceTime - it again generates an avatar rather than showing you with your ski goggles on. Great for impersonating someone else…..

Probably scans your retina to make sure it's you.

Oh no, so many sci-fi scenes of people gouging out eyeballs to unlock things are going through my head now.

I’m thinking this looks a good evolution of what’s been before but not yet ready for mass market. Once this dev kit has a good healthy App Store ready and the hardware has been refined (external power supply is never great), I can see the dystopian future of everyone wearing them and leaving the real world.

[Carlos]

I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention to this, but how come the view inside looks different to how it should?

You'd only see the eyes, no?


Interested to see how this does, but Hololens failed to take off apart from niche business usage. At 3.5k, I can see this going the same way.

Those 'eyes' are a passthrough look at the user rather than a transparent display. The headset is still like a VR in those regards. The real world on the outside of those floating windows is still another passthrough feed rather than looking straight through a window.

[Victor Mildew]

Hopefully the new screen tech will find its way to more devices as the retina display did back with the iPhone 4 - now every device has one. Imagine proper VR with displays like that, it'd be incredible.

[rinks]

It scans your irises, but I know that’s what you mean.

Oh no, I meant retina. But irises makes more sense.

I expect they'll add retina scans in a future version, as an essential health monitoring option.

[rinks]

Oh no, so many sci-fi scenes of people gouging out eyeballs to unlock things are going through my head now.

Dead Space 2 is the eye-related thing my mind always leaps to.