Several early adopters of Apple’s mixed-reality headset tell MarketWatch that the fit and weight of the devices has been a “pain point” — but they still like Apple’s spatial computer nonetheless.
Emily Olman got her $3,500 device in February and told MarketWatch that it gave her two black eyes after she wore it for the first time for about an hour.
“I wasn’t able to use it very much the first few weeks because the fit was just off,” said Olman, chief media officer at Hopscotch Interactive, who is based in Kensington, Calif. Olman creates videos with the device for commercial and residential real-estate clients.
She added that she had “like, superdark black eyes,” after wearing the Apple Vision Pro, which, she said, “clearly [placed] too much weight on my cheeks.”
“You are wearing a computer strapped to your face,” said Jeremy Bailenson, who studies virtual reality at Stanford University and recently published research concerning the psychological effects of passthrough video usage in mixed reality… Overuse of any headset, including Apple’s, could lead to temporary general discomfort, distraction from the real world and “simulator sickness,” which is akin to motion sickness, according to Bailenson.
Dr. Zuhaib Ibrahim, a New Jersey plastic surgeon, said he experiences headaches after more than two hours on AR/VR headsets during procedures in the operating room. “You need to take a break,” he said.
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple Vision Pro is a DevKit and should have been released as such, but something had to be released ahead of the looming Project Titan cancelation void — something else to point at and talk about other than failure, including the major issue of Apple’s “leadership” being blindsided by GenAI (which will take years from which to recover) — hence the release of the Vision Pro into the mass consumer market ahead of its time. (Just imagine this year so far if the Vision Pro didn’t hit the market in February!)
Regular people who want to use an Apple spatial computer should wait for subsequent versions which will be lighter and more affordable. If you cannot wait: get your Vision Pro properly fitted, lie on your back with your head supported to watch movies, etc.!
See also: Apple’s Vision Pro is a Mac on your face – June 6, 2023
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Combine all the rule violations (EU mainly), lawsuit crap (potentially this article, Spotify, etc) and product confusion (Titan, AI and simple digital asst), and market travails (China AND now India)…AAPL seems to be in dire need of some intervention/reinvigoration.
And then, over there, Wedbush has a $250 target! His targets are so far aloft, he’s starting to remind me of Brian White, circa 2010 (I think that’s his name?).
Just a yr ago-ish, Apple was a calm place in all the shifting in the World. Not now.
I think Apple nailed this.
Developers bought them on day one, and can develop, test, and test market en masse.
Regular people got the message and are intrigued but not buying. For them, it’s an aspirational product.
And prosumers and early-adopters are buying them but accepting the limitations.
Apple is rapidly and massively scaling parts production, manufacturing, and product interest — and getting paid to do so.
A rushed product (even as a dev kit). Steve Jobs would have canned Tim Cook and the entire exec team for this. Tell me these are the best people Apple can find? The execs are the problem! They care more about feathering their own nests than what’s good for the company. Where is the board? Same story?
Watch this and then decide how baked it is:
The hand gestures on all the recent Apple WWDC is so freaking weird. Is there internal training at Apple that “teach” proper hand gestures. Watch the 2024 pre recorded WWDC and pay attention to the hand gesture freak show. The more they try to copy Steve the more they look like synthetic humans
The software is really good but the head band weight distribution couldn’t be much worse if they tried, how could something so obviously flawed get out the door? How do you get the hard part so right but get the comfort part so messed up. Remember when Tim fired Forrester over the Apple Maps issue. This is much much worse. The buck should stop with the CEO
That’s because it was a very stupid idea. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wants to strap s*** to their face indefinitely to try to just do their thing or accomplish basic tasks. This thing gives the Pippin a run for its money.
Honestly: where did this idiotic idea within the annals of Apple come from, and why did they push forward with it, and so hard? There is literally zero practical application for this, and if Apple thinks their future lies in tech demos released to the public when it is the diametric opposite of ‘useful’ is their way forward: heaven help them. Apple’s modern chips are the only good thing to come out of Cupertino since Jobs’ passing, and I wish that were just me being callous, it isn’t. It is absurd that we are even discussing this.
Were it not for Apple being the lesser of three evils – I just don’t know what to say. Someone, please create an actual, viable, alternative. Linux ain’t it.
Cry baby, cry, make your mother sigh…
It looks like people suffer something only when they use an Apple product. Why news only cover problemes related only to apple product?
What about microsoft, meta and the others?