I don't think all those points seem like "trying very hard", they totally seem to me like the base case, and it's up to the product to rise to the occasion and show how this is all wrong.
I mean, it doesn't matter. The product will come out either way and I have no stake in it. But this is the internet and we post things.
That's what Apple has shown, no?
It’s like they tried to be the next Nike and build a better sneaker except no one actually has a need for face-shoes to begin with.
They still have a year — perhaps there is more coming — but this does not have the feel of “finally” for VR/AR that still seems possible, and no one needs VR, yet.
I think it'll take longer than that for Vision to bake, it seems rough, it's just that the idea that Apple products are released fully formed has never been particularly true.
The correlate here I suppose is “watching things” or “using computers” but the function together with the price point so far feels to me more like PARC than Apple.
Not that it's morally wrong in this case, I just don't see the upside of deciding what it's like now rather than waiting for data.
Size changes but sweaty? Yes, you can even grab scuba glasses and humidity and heat will build up normally even if you stand in a living room. Strapped? Obviously. Makes you absent from the place you are at? AR can fix that I hope, but the feeling of being "somewhere else" is absolutely, completely there. A person can't just interact with you while you are using VR, you are in a different space in terms of interaction.
I've used VR dozens of times and all of these look like completely legitimate concerns.