All the reviews where people state “it’s like looking through clear safety goggles”, etc. are bogus. It’s like looking through a cell phone camera from about 10 years ago. Especially in low light (e.g. a home office.)
The actual AR content, though, is amazingly sharp.
You’re absolutely correct that low light environments suck.
My guess is that it’s a latency/sensor trade off leading to the constant noise.
And passthrough was worse on the pro than the 3!
Is Apple going to build their own version of a full frame / medium format sensor in order to improve the low light performance over the next decade. Because that would have major implications for the photography industry if that were ever to appear in an iPhone.
For some reason, people keep giving Apple a pass for many of the shortcomings of their very expensive products. I mean if they would make extremely competitive affordable products I would kinda make sense to give them some slack (it used to be a bit like that TBH) but today's Apple deserves none of that.
I still remember the hype with Airpods and just after getting them I quickly understood that I had been owned. Not that Airpods were a bad product per se, but for the price they are just not good value.
It is still the same and even worse with the AVP. Considering the price, this product almost suck. It's like people acclaiming an extremely expensive Porsche as a great car. Who give a fuck, the thing is so expensive it is reserved to a small elite, if you make stuff infinitely expensive, they better be infinitely good.
And there lies the problem with current Apple, because they have all the money in the world, they have very little incentive to figure out a working compromise for products at a price that would work for most people. Their current products are plagued with this issue: they are all "nice" but only if you have infinite money, once you start comparing and making choices, they become a lot less interesting, in fact I would argue that most of them low-key sucks for their price...