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Just commenting to leave my footprint for when people look back on the discussion a few years from now.

The high price seems like it'll be a barrier to adoption, which will limit the amount of developers willing to invest time in developing for a closed platform.

It'll probably take off in the furry / kink scene. The real killer app will have something to do with sex or porn, and Apple will try to kill it off or refuse to acknowledge it.

On release day some couple will record a first-person POV sex video and upload it to a major porn site. If the spatial video recording experience is really good it might take off in the porn space.

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You thought about leaving a comment for people 10 years from now, and decided to open with "this will be big for furries"?

Furries have a lot of money and are often technologically proficient. It probably won't take long after release before it's possible to transpose an avatar or fursona over someone, a mix of VR Chat and IRL.

If you're going to write something that's going to be seen in 10 years, it's good for it to be right!

Leaving a ten year time capsule comment to reference a currently fifteen year old movie which repeats an evergreen point about the two things that drive technological adoption and innovation:

https://youtu.be/V5TqHKB_RDM

Actually, this makes sense. Existing VR porn is not well produced. The resolution is far from sufficient, and the scaling is downright bizarre. If Apple can solve these issues using their '3D camera' and provide the audience with a unified standard, then it is likely that we will see high-quality homemade VR porn being posted on platforms like OnlyFans and Pornhub.

> Apple showed off 180-degree 3D videos with spatial audio in something called the Apple Immersive Video Format, which the company apparently shot with proprietary cameras it may or may not release. (They looked like the 3D videos we’ve been seeing in VR demos forever.) https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23750003/apple-vision-pro-...

Let's see how this will pan out

Gonna leave my footprint on this one too. Here’s my take since my favorite app on my Meta Quest 2 is actually Immersed (for virtual desktop / multi monitor setups): I’m less interested in either Apple or Meta here because I think Apples Vision Pro ideas just reinforce what we’re being told repeatedly: the industry wants to move away from screens, and the future is not screens. We have two big things on the near horizon now: AR/VR and AI. The industry as a whole will push these technologies until they are the norm. Smartphones, PCs, tablets and laptops (maybe even TVs?) will become legacy technology, but they will of course live on in emulated forms (a “window”). Conversational and ubiquitous computing will be the future, like it or not.

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