I financed a little over $3,900 for the 256GB version of the headset.
Financed. LOL. Imagine taking out a small loan for this.
Being a tech reporter is one of the small areas I understand someone buying one of these, but why on earth isn’t the verge paying that for him?
Because the verge wasn’t stupid enough to buy into that insanity. The Verge.
Tech reporting is difficult in the gadget sphere - but in reporting chances are you know someone who has it. Network a bit. Borrow it and do a full review after you publish a piece that maybe discusses the product beforehand so you don’t miss the initial clicks. Or better still - maybe publish a piece on why you didn’t think it prudent to finance 4k for a product that the manufacturer doesn’t know what to do with.
Wasn’t there a return window? I’d imagine that’d be enough to do a review
The author obviously thought the value was worth it when he made the purchase. Now he’s sad that others think it’s worth less than he paid? So for him the perceived value of his purchase is based on what other people think, which is pretty sad. Then he does this self-depreciating write up about the experience, calling himself a fool.
Spend your money how you want, but don’t let other people’s opinions determine how you feel about it. You’ll get no sympathy from me, bud.
Some background on me, I’m a IT geek, I love technology, I love VR, not a huge fan of apple. I couldn’t understand the use case for the Vision Pro, especially given battery life and other odd little limitations. The hardware sounded absolutely amazing, some incredible features, but Apple really wanted to distance the headset from VR, and instead was pushing this weird idea that you’d just sit and use the head in an Augmented Reality style interface for their eco system. Imagine wearing this thing during your child’s first birthday in order to capture a 3d video.
It’s a shame, but it’s a solution looking for a problem. If they would have leaned hard into the incredible hardware to be a killer VR headset too, that may have helped a little bit. But as everyone else is saying… I’m not surprised by this outcome.
it’s a solution looking for a problem.
That’s basically the story of Apple in the last decade or so. They create a “solution”, realize it doesn’t actually solve anything, and then they break some other things to make their solution actually work.
So I’m anticipating that the next iPhone won’t have a screen unless viewed through a Vision Pro.
Oh no who could have seen this coming?!
Lots of people have overspent on the promise of various VR devices over the years.
I think of all the omnidirectional treadmills that must be collecting dust, for instance.
Or various Pimax HMDs… Or everyone who had their preorder fee taken by the Decagear people.
It’s still early for all of this, but it won’t be going away. This modern era of VR started ~10 years ago.
