Appleis putting its stake in the VR game with a new, definitely affordable, definitely not just Google Glasses 2: Electric Boogaloo, $3,500 headset that visualizes your eyes on the other side. If that price tag wasn’t enough, the design and mixed-reality pitch saw people immediately poke fun.
“I can’t wait to finally be able to focus during a conversation using Apple’s new Vision Pro headset,“Alex Leybourne tweeted, attaching a photo of someone in the headset talking to another person witha TikTok game clipunderneath. Nothing like Family Guy highlights and mobile ads flooding the screen to keep you concentrated, but now in real life!
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Our own News Writer and Affiliate Josh Coulson responded to the announcement with a fitting It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia quote, “Where do my feet go?” That’s from the totally unrelated episode about the gang falling victim to pricey scams. But seriously, where do my feet go?
Others immediately likened it to Google Glass from a decade ago, which didn’t take off because it looked silly to wear. Cue the VR headset that simulates your eyes on the other side, creating the illusion that you’re talking to someone face-to-face if they’re wearing the headset when, in reality, you’re up against an uncanny reconstruction. Not at all unsettling. Nope.
Speaking of simulated eyes plastered onto the front of your VR headset, which nobody has ever thought to do and probably for good reason, someone highlighted a morbid unforeseen side effect that it might have. Say you die wearing Apple’s $3,500 headset, would your simulated passthrough be held onto the faceplate, thus immortalising you by keeping your likeness? Hopefully, we never find out.
Outside of the headset’s look and price, there’s what it does - simulate your desktop in front of you. you’re able to put it on and use Excel if you really want, butwho would splash out to do that? Alternatively, you can watch porn on a floating screen nobody else can see.
It’s hard to seethe mainstream appealof a VR headset that’s nearly $4,000, and it’s certainly not helped the immediate onslaught of memes and jabs. But it launches in 2024, so let’s see where we are this time next year.
