Apple’s Vision Pro debuted just two months ago, drawing crowds of people to sign up for demos and almost immediately selling out. Since then, interest in Apple’s premiere mixed reality headset has plummeted and sales are grinding to a halt at some retail stores, Bloomberg reports on Monday. So, what happened to Apple’s latest hardware …
The Apple Vision Pro features a sophisticated hardware and software experience that no augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) headsets available on the market can match. Rivals like Meta have criticized the expensive Apple spatial computer more than once, but I’m certain the Vision Pro alternatives of the future will draw inspiration from Apple’s …
Pimax While the Apple Vision Pro offers ultra-high-resolution displays with 23 million pixels, the staggering $3,500 price might inspire you to look for Vision Pro alternatives. Good news: Pimax just announced two new VR headsets, including a budget model that costs as low as $799 and a more advanced version starting at $1,799. Both are …
A few months after its launch, how is Apple’s Vision Pro faring? The company’s ambitious bet on computers that nestle on your face instead of sit on your desk made a huge splash when it was announced and later release. However, the hype has since seemingly come back down to Earth. I am a long-term …
Note: This article is based on the VIP+ special report “Apple Vision Pro + Entertainment,” available only to subscribers. Video entertainment consumption could be among the most compelling consumer use cases of Vision Pro. But it’s unclear whether consumers will accept VR or mixed reality (MR) headsets as an enjoyable form factor for watching 3D …
Photo: Smith Collection/Gado (Getty Images) Apple decided to stop building cars and smartwatch displays in-house so it laid off 600 employees, according to a report from Bloomberg Thursday. The layoffs, which occurred in Feb. and March, affected 87 employees working at a secret Apple facility working on smartwatch screens, and hundreds working on the Apple …
Are we there yet? Virtual reality headsets are quietly revolutionizing business and healthcare. They’ve been used to teach KFC staff to fry chicken, prepare UPS drivers for road hazards, and train astronauts for outer space. In healthcare, they’re used for pain management by veterans and kids with cancer. And these are only a few examples. …
The Apple Vision Pro’s Spatial Personas, avatars designed to replicate a user’s facial expressions and hand gestures, have been set loose. The avatars can now roam freely in your virtual space, allowing them to look at, point to, and interact with, various apps over SharePlay. It’s part of Apple’s effort to make hanging out in …
Apple Vision Pro is perhaps the best virtual tool yet for training surgeons, says a company that builds virtual experiences to medical training, adding that its gesture control system is “phenomenal.” Using Apple Vision Pro in training—similar to other VR systems—can reduce surgical training time by 40% to 200%. Best of all, it develops competence …
This story is part of our Chief Innovation Officer Forecast series with Quartz, a business report from the front lines of the future. Hands-On With Meta Quest 3 Earlier this month, a British hospital made headlines with the first surgery ever carried out with the assistance of an Apple Vision Pro, a $3,500 mixed reality …