New app releases for Apple Vision Pro have fallen dramatically since launch

Apple struggles to attract content from developers for its $3,500 headset.

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[lilkwarrior]

You keep deflecting the lack of development by saying it's only been six months... except dev kits have been in the hands of developers for much, much longer. Likely over two years now.

That’s speculative on your part—especially for devs who have been waiting for a serious prosumer standalone headset to come out to have XR app development plans seriously in motion.

Prosumers are nonetheless not the audience that needs others to make things for them in order for the good to be useful.

Do you think people who buy the Pro Display XDR, iPad Pro, and Mac Studio/Pro are waiting for other people to make things to maximize or make use of such devices?

Absolutely not. Mainstream people need that.

The Vision Pro has providers of premium home content on board. Only exception which is always the case with Apple devices and niche focus is the exclusion of AAA gaming being a focus.

The Vision Pro doesn’t even support ray-tracing and has merely a .5 TFLOP difference to the Quest 3 with a much higher-end picture quality (but a laptop-class CPU though)

Of course it isn’t for gaming or initially dependent on apps within the first year making Apple’s prosumer focus (devs included) understandable.

They have no competition in the same way the Quest 3 doesn’t being a budget headset sold at an unrealistic price to attract customers (Meta has lost 4 billion dollars that way they justify with their Metaverse aspirations and making money back by gaming subscription and ads).

Maybe the Apple Vision Pro 3 will finally get some adoption.

A non-Pro Vision Pro and/or mainstream AR glasses will.

The Vision Pro is squarely in the ideal/high-end side of things as far as standalome headsets.

Not for people with modest/basic/non-productive use cases for a headset.

It makes sense to leave Meta and Sony to figure out how medicore budget headset manufacturers can get away with and then launch a device with their ecosystem strengths and the component cost savings of the Vision Pro.

Seems the wait won’t be too long (2025?)

 

[xoe]

It’s a prosumer standalone headset unchallenged and not designed to be a mainstream option in the same way the 4090 is without AMD trying to compete with it directly (like the Pro Display XDR as well).

The Quest Pro didn’t get a refresh and Microsoft doesn’t sell their HaloLens to consumers; The Quest Pro didn’t even meet baseline expectations of working alongside prosumer non-VR hardware on top of being heavier than the Vision Pro.

The Quest Pro nor Gaming headers don’t even offer premium HDR:

The Vision Pro is unfortunately the only serious standalone headset option for prosumers; think of it being the Porsche of spatial computing headsets.

it can easily be argued it accommodates its target audience over any gaming headset to date.

What makes you think the Quest Pro should have gotten a refresh by now?

 

[lilkwarrior]

What makes you think the Quest Pro should have gotten a refresh by now?

…I didn’t stay it had to; I merely said it hasn’t taking my opinion and feelings out of it.

 

[xoe]

…I didn’t stay it had to; I merely said it hasn’t taking my opinion and feelings out of it.

The lack of a refresh would only be notable if a refresh was expected. Why did you note it?

 

[maxoakland]

For the record, pro-mask people during the pandemic no longer wear masks everywhere because ... the industry invented a vaccine that has been widely deployed and there isn't a pandemic anymore.

If there were still a pandemic, or if another one emerges, we'd still happily be wearing masks. Because we aren't morons.

There definitely is still a pandemic and right now there’s a big jump in Covid cases. I’ve seen more people masking and it’s smart

 

[Colin Richardson]

Yeah but in this case the "mouse" was invented decades ago and was widely available a decade ago

You have a 10 year old VR headset with accurate hand tracking? No.

 

[xoe]

You have a 10 year old VR headset with accurate hand tracking? No.

I don't personally own one, but they absolutely existed.

In August 2014, the company launched a VR tracking mode for its core software, designed to provide hand tracking while the device is mounted on virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift.

 

[lilkwarrior]

The lack of a refresh would only be notable if a refresh was expected. Why did you note it?

…Because there’s no expectation or established history of when or how often a prosumer headset is incrementally succeeded by a direct replacement.

The Quest Pro failed to meet the core needs of prosumers with technology today Apple is leveraging and more able to do with their newer headset to move that segment significantly forward…

Subjectively it’s not far fetched to expect a new Quest Pro at this point: many prosumer device categories are replaced 2-3 years to align with conventional device replacement policies.

It would be entitlement if I said they should have refreshed by now or need to

 

[Chuckstar]

When the original iPhone launched I had already been listening to music on my phone for several years, please don't pretend Apple solved that particular problem!

Man that K750i was such a game changer for me, went from discman, point and shoot and phone to just that one thing!

Oh, sorry. You’re right. But what is true is that listening to music/podcasts/audiobooks on my Blackberry was a shit-poor replacement for having my iPod with me. I tried it a once and just went back to carrying two devices.

 

[Byron-]

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