I have no use for this whatsoever, and it's probably eye wateringly expensive. But damn this is a cool piece of tech.
It does depend a lot on what you prefer to do with your free time in the first place. But if you happen to be killing time on YouTube or something anyway, watching a VR travel walk for example is actually really worthwhile.
I also find that because it is so immersive, I will consume less content because I am actually satisfied earlier than if I had been killing time on 2D content.
There are AR devices in the form of sunglasses now, but the displays and experience pale in comparison to VR headsets.
We're still a few more generations away from VR headsets shrinking and AR glasses improving for this experience to be universally enjoyable.
Linus Tech Tips did a review of it, so it's real. I have high hopes.
Obviously the Vision Pro in a glasses format isn't possible now. However, the Vision Pro with a few hundred grams shaved off of it, plus being a little bit less "horizontally" bulky would result in a much more enjoyable user experience.
If the headset were solely a display then it seems straightforward, but I don’t know what existing system could be used to transmit all of the various sensor data down to a brick, especially in a way that would enable quickly iterating on the sensor set. I’m not a hardware person though so if someone from hardware land could chime in on plausibility I would be curious to hear that perspective.
Once the sensor set is more locked in and/or the market is more proven I’m guessing they will go ahead and invest in a custom solution to split the face and the brick hardware.
It would for sure be an obvious win, I just think it’s probably not easy to do.
I wouldn't mind a hefty computer myself. The problem is, apparently nothing can be made today if it doesn't aim for immediate mass adoption. Niches and gradual evolution don't fly anymore.
How so? In the current VR resurgence of more than a decade now we've seen the field go through gradual evolution. The technology has been very niche, and still is today.
What headset manufacturers are betting on is that one day they'll come up with a winning formula that makes _everyone_ want their device. Similarly to what happened for smartphones with the iPhone. I think we're still a few years away from that tipping point, but I don't doubt we'll get there eventually.