Walking around in public wearing is absolutely not it. Maybe something trades related? Cooking?
In videos, cooking with the Vision Pro seemed really cool. When my dad is making a holiday meal he has his iPad up with multiple timers to try and keep track of everything. With the Vision Pro you can pin timers to each pot in space, while having all the recipes up. This all seems very cool. However, the bulk may be an issue in practice, as well as steam and other things encountered in the kitchen. The kitchen also tends to be where people socialize or want to help out, and the Vision Pro would make both of those things difficult and awkward.
I only did the in-store demo of the Vision Pro and the immersive videos were the most striking to me. When it went up high in the mountains my stomach dropped as if I was actually up high and about to fall. I’ve been sky diving and I didn’t even have the feel of unease in real life while sitting on the edge of a plane, but I had it during that video. The one with the Alicia Keys concert did it too. I wasn’t expecting it and all of the sudden she was in my personal space; it was uncomfortably close. I don’t know how you’d get that experience in any other medium. It was cool, but with the limited amount of content, it wasn’t $3,500 cool.
Most people I’ve seen talk about it online find using it as a monitor for their Mac to be the killer app, but that feels like kind of a lame killer app, especially when devices that are much less capable can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
The fact that we’re even talking about this is a failure on Apple’s part. They’ve successfully launched multiple new device categories where others have failed. Each time they presented the problem that the device solved. They failed to do that here and seem to be hoping the market figures it out. This is a losing strategy.
When I demoed this to a bed-bound friend, she had no interest in the un-human-ness of the computer's interface... particularly the feeling of having to always wear headgear.
Just doesn't really seem to be much of a market for this tech, yet. As somebody else here mentioned: just not enough apps/porn for this device/tech, yet.
Google Glasses - dead
Apple Vision Pro - dead
FB/Meta x RayBan - dead soon(?)
It seems they can’t get over the social hurdle of having a camera strapped to your face, and the effects of that on people around you. I think the tech is neat, but not socially accepted as a concept to make it viable. My sister is big into tiktok and filming all the time, and it personally makes me hesitant to be nearby as I’m not comfortable being filmed all the time.
It's the big tech companies that are pushing for pervasive cameras. Not consumers saying they can't live without a camera on their face.
The wearables are just too big, too expensive, and the feature set too small.
Much like with VR goggles, every problem they solve is solved far better and more cheaply with another device most people already have and use.
I don't think it has anything to do with the moral or social implications of taking pictures of people privately. The second any of the above are resolved, society will willingly give up even more privacy without a hiccup, as we've done every other time the choice was presented.
It’s not a tech issue, it’s a marketing issue (and lack of imagination).
