Apple Vision Pro is the modern equivalent of John Sculley’s Apple Newton
May be Google was on to something with their glasses and may be some version of electrochromic glass goggles that also works as a display is the answer.
I agree that Apple is not what it used to be. They normally don't go for still evolving tech and swoop in with a better product(and experience) only after the product's viability is established.
Apple knew the hardware would be too bulky and went forward anyway.
Remember just a few years ago when Meta was trying to convince us that the metaverse was the future.
Just a few weeks ago they released new products that actually have a much bigger potential then the Vision Pro for the usecases virgildotcode imagined. I.e. Orion AR. As a person that only knows about it from the presentation/demos it kinda sounded like a crossover of VR headset and Google Glasses
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-firs...
Though I sincerely doubt it will succeed at a wider audience either, even if it's mass market appeal is way higher.
The tech just isn't there yet - we'd need 4-8+k displays per eye with batteries that need to last at least 10 hours for this to become really viable (even if we could probably compromise batteries with a usb-c connection to the laptop for this particular usecase)
Nonetheless, that should strengthen my point - as my comment was a rebuttal Gogachads nonchalant past tense wrt Metas ongoing investment into the metaverse. Metas main goal is still exactly that, ever since their pivot