I got the Apple Vision Pro. It’s awesome, but to be honest, it doesn’t do much, yet. It’s amazing hardware and software, but there are few built-in apps. It’ll grow and expand, but there’s just not a lot you can do with it yet.

There are two built-in experiences to sell you on how much potential it has to sell you on how incredible this thing can / will be. They both involve dinosaurs.

In one, a large dino comes into the room. It’s very impressive. In the other, you’re fully immersed in a scene of dinos and you can look around at all the scenery surrounding you. And this got me thinking…

What if I was a Young Earth Creationist who bought this? You know, those dummies who take the bible literally and think the earth is 5-6000 years old. The ones who think either fossils are a test of your faith by god or dinos roamed the earth with humans. How would these make such a person feel?

Personally, my first dream job, as a child, was to be an archaeologist, digging up dinos, so I loved both experiences. But if I thought this was all a lie from Satan, how let down might I feel when those are the best parts of my new, expensive toy?

This was my first thought when I awoke this morning. I’m typing it right after I woke so I don’t forget, such as we forget the details of dreams. Apologies for typos. I’m not proofreading it. I’m grabbing some caffeine and getting my day going. I just wanted to capture this silly, ironic idea. Btw, the AVP is still truly awesome and I don’t regret the purchase.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    it will run Mac-compatible Steam games

    Players can access more games from the Mac App Store and apps like Steam using Mac Virtual Display — including popular titles like Lies of P and Baldur’s Gate 3 — and enjoy smooth and responsive gameplay with Game Mode enabled on Mac.

    [emphasis mine]

    source

    now, what that will be like at launch and how that will evolve over time is something we won’t know until we actually see it in practice.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
      21·
      9 months ago

      But that means that you have to connect a compatible (=recent) MacBook in order to have the feature enabled. The marketing people at Apple carefully chose their words in order to let people believe that the headset can run Mac apps

    • Rooki@lemmy.world
      66·
      9 months ago

      So literally like any other VR headset, but for less money. For 3.5k you can buy a great pc AND a vr headset.

      • voracitude@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 months ago

        If you watch some reviews, there’s nothing else like it on the consumer market. It really does look like Apple have made a generational leap forwards with this thing.

        But I’m not buying it. I’ll buy one of the inevitable competitors, after a generation or three, because I also have no interest in joining the Apple ecosystem. I like having control over my devices too much for that.

        • Rooki@lemmy.world
          11·
          9 months ago

          Same for the reason, i dont say its not innovative combining vr and ar, but the closed ecosystem will kill it in the end.

          • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            the closed ecosystem will kill it in the end.

            People have said this about every Apple product. They continue to thrive.

            We are in a very specific bubble here on Lemmy. And in the Lemmy bubble, yeah, Apple products will never be the most popular.

            But the average consumer could not possibly care less about “closed ecosystems.” They want a device that works smoothly and looks nice.

              • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                9 months ago

                Thrive? The only thing i see is a cash grabs from big corporations.

                Maybe you missed Apple going from a nearly-defunct company in the 90s to one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market cap in the trillions and nearly a quarter of the global smartphone market share.

                While that is certainly the result of cash grabbing, I think it’s also fair to describe it with the word “thrive.”

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        83·
        9 months ago

        no. the Vision Pro is a PC and VR headset. well, a Mac inside a VR headset.

        it’s a standalone device, not an accessory like other VR headsets.

        • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
          21·
          9 months ago

          It’s an iPad inside a VR headset that can show a remote desktop (single monitor) from a Mac automagically without too much friction if the user is logged in with the same apple id. Cool but not $3500 cool, remote desktop in VR can be done with 10-15x less money

        • Rooki@lemmy.world
          23·
          9 months ago

          Wow a pc but for 1 hour or be plugged in like any other macbook. So its a accessory like a macbook to the wall socket ;D

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
        1·
        9 months ago

        Oh no, in order to play Mac games on the headset (on a simulated flat screen) you need to connect a compatible Mac with enough horsepower to run a game in 4k. So it’s 3.5k for the headset and another 2k for the “gaming” Mac