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Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Today sees the launch of Sony's latest virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR 2, which aims to offer a generational step up on the company's original VR headset.Īnnounced in February 2022, the PSVR 2 follows up on 2016's PlayStation VR, which had sold 4.2 million units worldwide as of March 2019. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. This is going to go badly.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. It also does not justify its existence or price. Though you could knock this all the way down to $1,000, and I can bet you everyone who got one would likely use it for a few weeks, put it down and rarely think about it again (my two VR headsets in boxes have suffered the same fate). You cannot do the same for something like this.

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You can charge that much for a high-end PC because PCs have proven their value. Apple instead has some mobile-based Apple Arcade offerings coming to Vision Pro.Īnd the price is just… What do you even need to say here? $3,500 is ludicrous, even for Apple.

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And while Meta may have drunk (and brewed) the metaverse Kool-Aid, at least full VR headsets like Quest and PS VR have some deeply immersive games.

The pitch and form is borderline Google Glass. The concept is essentially Microsoft Hololens. It’s currently at about $31 billion.Īgain, I am not seeing anything here that I have not seen before. There were wild analyst projections about how the VR market was supposed to explode into hundreds of billions of dollars. It has not revolutionized anything since the original debut of the Oculus 10 years ago. But that meant Apple has spent the better part of a decade building something to compete with a product that never went much of anywhere. Apple started developing this seven years ago, two years after Facebook acquired Oculus and were starting to spin up their grand VR metaverse ambitions. This is not what’s happening with Vision Pro. I’ve heard people say, “Well, cell phones were clunky for years and then Apple invented the iPhone,” like that’s somehow equivalent to what’s going on here.

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The best use case out of everything here is someone watching a movie on a plane in a way that may be better than an iPad-though I hope it’s both a short flight and a short movie since there’s only two hours of battery life on the thing.

It also does not sound like a good way to work or do much of anything. But I am skeptical about AR not being disorienting in the long term, moving these windows around every time you adjust your head, with the real world as the background. A dad getting interrupted by his holographic work by his kid kicking a soccer ball at him because this is AR not VR and he can see through it. Conceptually, this is just ridiculous if you think about the logistics of it for more than two seconds. It’s FaceTime, and the other person is supposed to see some sort of creepy face-scanned version of you instead of, you know, you, which is how an actual FaceTime call works.

I think my favorite example is the when someone gets a phone call, and they just so happen to be wearing their headset in a hotel room while unpacking.

That will not change when it’s AR instead of VR. Guess how many people I know who watch full movies in VR with a thing on their face? Zero. This is quite literally identical to the VR pitch about pretending you’re in a big theater using a headset.

There’s a guy sitting with a bowl of popcorn projecting a big movie screen in front of him.

We can ask Microsoft and the Kinect how tactile-free gesture navigation worked out.

There’s a guy doing holographic work in his kitchen wearing the headset (conveniently posed so we do not see the cord running down his back into the battery pack in his pocket) and using pinch gestures to move things.

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