> Apple always tries to avoid to jump into the hype trains like blockchain, NFTs, metaverse etc.
What do you mean by "avoid ..metaverse"? They released a premium headset for AR/VR.
What do you mean by "avoid ..metaverse"? They released a premium headset for AR/VR.
But seriously now, you can bet your left kidney that if Apple ever manages to make AR/VR work they will try to milk every penny and dime from the gullible while pretending that "it's good for you" like they do with their broken walled gardens. /rant
So far, it looks like Meta changed its view from VR-only and got into AR (with the new glasses). Apple is still pushing AR (with some VR).
Will Apple change its mind? Perhaps. That’s a good thing for companies to do in the face of new evidence/reception from the market.
Apple hasn't just not implemented this they've made it impossible for developers to as well. Because only Apple can access the sensors needed to create the 3D avatar and only Apple is allowed access to this avatar i.e. it is restricted to SharePlay with your friends.
The metaverse , in most common definitions, refers to a virtual world and ecosystem as an alternate for the real one. See Ready Player One.
Second life is a metaverse platform in essence. But isn’t VR.
Fortnite is a metaverse but isn’t VR. Their programming language is even called Verse.
The Quest itself isn’t a metaverse product BUT Horizon Worlds (not The confusingly named HorizonOS) is. You can participate in Horizon without a headset.
Apple has no metaverse product. There might be metaverse products on Apple devices but that’s no different than an iPhone or Mac playing the things I mentioned above.
There is almost no definition of metaverse that includes augmented reality.
Second Life can and has been used with a VR headset, so yeah, it is in essence VR. Whether or not it's a good experience doesn't matter, Second Life certainly can meet the requirement for "virtual reality", depending on your definition of "VR".
No dancing Zucks.
“Killer app” (as far as there is one) is focus. Being able to surround yourself with a large Mac screen & several Safari & iOS-type app screens, in a beautiful natural environment, and get real work done.
There is only one display for apps. It’s not large. Rather tiny compared to your field of view. The features are restricted around what an iPhone can do: View photos, view movies, view your browser one tab at a time.
Immersively, yes, but anything actually productive is excluded from the Vision Pro. There is no killer app in the Vision Pro.
My 32” screen can display more windows than the Vision Pro.
Yes they are.
Source: I develop for the device.
But in any case: Several browsers isn’t several apps. It’s really not like having several computers screens around you.
Their stock crashed hard after they pivoted to focus on the metaverse. It has since more then recovered - but saying that Meta marketed their VR to please investors is kinda silly considering how Mark Zuckerberg keeps doubling down on this investment to date - despite how massively the stock crashed.