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Is this the virtual boy of Apple? A product that never really made no sense to anybody and was never really supported?
I was hoping they'd get the price down to something sane. It looks like it could be a cool tool for CAD. Of course there won't be any input available from a non-Apple computer so I still wouldn't want one.
I desperately want a virtual desktop environment for plain ass computing. Give me infinite windows for my spreadsheet and IDE and that’s all I need!
you can do this with the quest 3 i think
I’ve heard the quest 3 is awesome and does almost everything the Vision does. Not sure I can justify the price to myself yet.
i am using a quest 2 for productivity and ebooks but the resolution is so low that my desktops need to be 1280x720 or I can't read them. it will be nice to upgrade when i get the chance.
I’ve heard the resolution is good enough to watch movies on too. Not sure if that is true, but that would be a selling point for me.
oh yea, watching movies is incredible. that's the other thing im using it for
Without a Meta account tho? I've got hard blockers on price or shenanigans (or both) for every headset I know of.
Not sure what having an account has to do with anything. I get the objection on the grounds of Meta being a shit company and it's perfectly reasonable, but having to make an account specifically for the device (and possibly nothing else - you don't have to link it to facebook or anything) doesn't magically give them any more power over you.
Yeah, I would genuinely use one for the virtual screen capabilities to do my normal Salesforce-and-Slack job, if not for the price.
In the article it says they're cancelling the "pro" version to focus on producing a cheaper version. So it sounds like you might get what you want, although "cheaper" will still likely be very expensive, and your point about compatibility with non-Apple devices still holds.
At least the VirtualBoy sold enough to not make it a waste of time?
It did?
No.
The Wii U was seen as a complete and utter sales flop. The Wii U outsold the VirtualBoy 18:1.
it was cool though
The virtual boy was awesome. I literally thought it was a childhood hallucination for almost 2 decades...
Imagine if they had more games for it, and kept improving the tech. Up through the Wii, Nintendo actually made some of the most amazing tech - the Wii accelerometers are what made quadcopters possible (outside of DARPA projects). The Nintendo back then could've made worthwhile VR before the iPad took the "I want to be on the Internet on the couch" niche
I played it at a blockbuster I think. I desperately wanted one as a kid. The only games I remember were tennis and a wario side scroller where he can jump into the background. I think I would have been bored within a week.
A neighborhood kid showed me a fighting game on it, and I think there was a star fox esque game that should've been the launch app (assuming it was any good)