I’m interested in it to replace my monitors at work and home, that’s about it. Not only would it allow for more screen space, but (I think?) it would allow my eyes to focus at infinity while working
This seems to be the obvious killer feature (what NReal has been tackling for a while now).
What's interesting is they're marketing 4K for each eyes, which I assume means that a display taking a third of the vision area would have a third a third of that resolution to display text etc. That's not unworkable, but we currently already have actual 4K monitors, only for a screen, and having two 4K monitors on a table should give an uncomparatively sharper image than what the headset is offering at best.
Basically, a 4K resolution per eye is impressive, but actually not that much to work with if we're comparing it to real world equivalents.
The Ars live blog mentioned there seemed to be a battery tether, but I didn't see any mention about battery life, so I don't know how long you'd be able to use Vision Pro before you'd have to swap batteries/recharge.
I mean, I'd love to just for the space savings alone. Multiple monitors take up quite a bit of space. If I could repurpose the space for other things without losing functionality that'd be great.
I don't think this is there yet. I'd need to see performance data, and I'd really prefer SteamVR integration (though I could probably reduce a PC+headset to a pretty small if necessary). But it's a step in that direction, and even if it's not necessarily Apple that gets there I think we will see that kind of device in the future.
I did this for a while with my Quest 2. Floating in space on an asteroid while my main screen is bigger (virtually) than an IMAX screen and two other monitors float on either side plus tool windows I could grab and move around was awesome. Just the headset was heavy and sweaty after a while and there was no AR pass thru, so I couldn’t see my keyboard and mouse or find my coffee cup. This looks like a step forward in solving all those problems.
