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The regular Apple Vision will be a pair of AR Glasses

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As the name "Vision Pro" suggests, there will be a cheaper, simpler version of Apple Vision some time in the future. My guess is that Apple will announce Vision around 2025, after assessing feedback to the Pro version.

I believe Apple Vision will be a pair of smart glasses similar to Google Glasses. Vision will not offer the full experience that Vision Pro offers. For example, no surrounding audio or curved virtual monitors. It will be mostly an addition to the iPhone experience and unlike Vision Pro, Vision will have more battery life and will be charged wirelessly.

The battery life of Vision will be similar to the first version of Apple Watch. Apple will lower the resolution to save battery, so no ultra-HD 4K display as we saw in Vision Pro.

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So with all those compromises what is it doing that isn’t already accomplished with my smartphone?

Now that Apple has entered the market, the rest of the general public will speed run through everything the VR community has already discovered.

Like:

Some people just get motion sick and there’s nothing you can do.

Even people who don’t get motion sick still have a pretty significant learning curve that is unusual compared to other technology.

Nobody wants to wear weird tech glasses outside of their gaming cave especially if they already have glasses, sunglasses, or don’t like how they look in glasses.

If you have long hair or makeup this all kind of sucks.

The only way to fix many issues is to go down a deep rabbit hole of modding and hacks (physical and software).

The software experiences are fun for a while but soon almost everyone who owns a VR headset reaches the gathering dust stage where they revert to traditional computing that has a lower barrier to use.

Good guess. There's a reason they called it "Pro", to give room for a future device.

Also a reason they didn't mention "Metaverse" or "AI" once in the presentation...

Exactly. They will just announce a slimmer version of the Vision Pro, maybe (Apple 'Vision') and turn it into a pair of glasses.

I expect the first visionOS product to do badly initially, then the next generation will have its 'iPhone' moment.

As predicted [0]:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29116667

Sounds good to me. If they're serious about a paradigm shift, they've at least got the work put in place to start replacing iPhones and iPads for some users.

> Vision will have more battery life and will be charged wirelessly.

> The battery life of Vision will be similar to the first version of Apple Watch.

And you think they're making it smaller? Big ol' "citation needed" on that one.

> And you think they're making it smaller? Big ol' "citation needed" on that one.

I don't owe you a citation for my opinion.

Okay.

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