• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Apple has suspended work on the second-generation Vision Pro headset to singularly focus on a cheaper model

    That seems very reasonable and like what they probably should’ve been doing all along.

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          5 months ago

          Exactly. Not promoting it as a dev kit was a major failure. This is the kind of product where you CAN’T do without external feedback, not everybody will use one in a clean office (or even one that stands still), not everybody has the same spatial awareness or motor skills, not supporting controllers locks out numerous people with limited hand movements, etc… As a dev kit it could’ve worked much better at getting the kind of feedback they need from devs working on useful AR stuff

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              5 months ago

              The point of such an early dev kit isn’t to commit in advance but get people to try out what works, then select what will be in the final product (and maybe releasing updated dev kits on the way). They’re would be a general plan, but this isn’t like a game console dev kit where almost all specs and major features are set in advance, so you’d expect devs to implement multiple variants of each software feature and see what they require of the hardware, how people use it, how popular they are, etc.

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        5 months ago

        The kind of people who would go around driving a Cybertruck with a Vision Pro on their faces and an humane pin strapped on.