Genuinely, what is the imagined use case for this?
The Alicia Keys one was first and my first instinct was to move back a bit, because she was so close, but I didn't, because I was on a stool and probably would have fallen. She was in my personal space, it felt almost uncomfortably intimate, like someone was right there. Then there were the flying ones, and I had that feeling I get in my stomach when on a roller coaster or zip line. I didn't expect that at all. I could have spent hours watching that stuff. I loved it. If they had a bigger library of immersive videos with regular releases, I'd probably get a Vision Pro just for that.
The windowed stuff was fine, but the full immersion is what I'm after.
I’ve used YouTube with a phone headset. It’s cool, but kind of annoying. The Vision Pro was also kind of annoying to put on and set up. And with both, the content is limited. So how much annoyance is someone willing to put up with for something that doesn’t has much content and only provides are marginally better viewing experience?
Televisions, computers, and phones, have very little friction and more content than a person could consume in 100 lifetimes. This makes the simple screen hard to beat.
I’m also remind of something I heard a film director say when being critical of the 3D movie fad… all movies are already 3D. There is depth in the shots when looking into the screen, no one really needs stuff flying out at them.
Going for a walk in a nice park is a better experience than walking around the block, but if I only ever walked after going through the trouble of driving to a nice park, I'd almost never walk. That's more like VR to me. Even if the cost is removed from the equation, it creates enough friction that using it becomes an event, not an everyday default, even if it's preferred.
[1] https://tv.apple.com/us/show/adventure/umc.cmc.5al10vz5fkqzx...
For PCVR users, that's likely going to be DeoVR. SteamVR has a built-in media player, but DeoVR is far better. More flexible, lets you move the video around, etc. Like, one of the big things for me when doing VR porn is that the camera tilt needs to match my head tilt, or else I get motion sick. So if the camera is pointed down 45 degrees, then by default, that means if my head is pointed straight forward, my view is actually looking down 45 degrees, and I get sick. DeoVR lets me move the video down, so that looking downwards makes me look at the center of the video.
Full spectrum rush.