No offense, but this thing looks like junk compared to Apple/Meta's headsets.
I didn’t get that impression at all. You can stream your Mac display to it and at that point you have a real Unix system in AR/VR. That’s good enough for many of us.
It seems that Simula is betting on people wanting to not need the external laptop and I think it’s a losing bet. There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough.
The use cases where having a connection to a laptop isn’t feasible are probably the same ones where you are mostly going to do be using it somewhat passively. Doing things like working in a coffee shop will probably still be done on a laptop because who wants to be a glasshole isolating themselves from an environment wearing a ring of cameras on their head? I don’t think I’d be comfortable doing that or being around somebody I don’t know doing that.
>There aren’t all that many use cases where having a Mac streaming wirelessly to your headset isn’t good enough.
It's not $3500 good enough. Its the same solution cheaper headsets use, and don't require full laptop hardware in the headset to do it.
Then it will be a failure like the HoloLens which is the same price.
I’m not convinced that this category will ever be much larger than it is now.
Also, the SimulaVR shown is a prototype. Pretty obvious that comparing it to the Vision Pro is comparing apples and oranges at this point.