Apple Continues Development on visionOS With Beta 6 Release

The Vision Pro headset is not expected until early 2024, so Apple still has several months to refine the hardware and software.

Just fyi, early 2024 starts in about 6 weeks.

Go Apple go! I hope this thing is fannnnnnnnntastic.

Being able to conjure up an any-size screen on demand like one might open a laptop to use a relatively tiny screen seems like an ideal use case for my needs. I hope it can do this one thing very well. Since existing VR products on the market already do this at their much lower resolutions... and Apple demoed exactly this benefit in the WWDC presentation...



...I look forward to trying it with my own eyes and hoping to see the productivity potential of a giant, visually sharp screen(s) in my laptop bag.

(My) Intent is to use it just like I use a laptop now: slip it on when I want to do laptop-type work, slip it off when I'm done. On the plane, on the train, in the hotel room, etc: WHEREVER I focus my attention on a relatively tiny laptop screen now to get things done. A virtual desktop size screen like the 40" ultra-wide I work on when NOT traveling would be so much more useful than continuing to adapt to <= a 16-inch screen when on the road.

No folding creases. No rolling. No weight of glomming on physical screens to get the additional screen R.E.- just a relatively small, NEW bit of tech in the laptop bag. I hope this delivers THAT well.

I have a feeling they are going to cancel this project due to low interest

Like they did the original HomePod? Or the butterfly keyboard MacBooks?

Let’s drop this whole “Apple can do anything” line. It isn’t true. If the Vision Pro isn’t successful very quickly Apple’s board will make it clear to Tim Cook that they expect him to place his focus on more profitable ventures.

Apple still sells the HomePod and Apple fixed the butterfly keyboards. I think you have very limited beliefs, just because something is not immediatly sucessful does not mean Apple gives up on it! Apple has 162 Billion on cash on hand, I do not think you know how much that is... The Apple Vision Pro is just multi-decimal place rounding error compared to that! Don't be meek, be bold!

I have a feeling they are going to cancel this project due to low interest

Yes, if they can’t convert this idea into a more affordable “consumer product” in the future.

The user target of this thing is only pros or some YouTubers who are willing to pay $3500 plus tax, most consumers won’t. The bar is very high for the general public to get their hands on this thing.

Imagine Apple spent 8 years and shxt load of $$$ on R&D and won’t profit from it. Tim Cook, the businessman who doesn’t understand the technology, understands the business value of doing it at least. The models for the general public may have been planned already but who knows...

...Airpower never saw the light for example.

Another in a long line of similar failures.

I mean, no one has mentioned the Newton Message pad yet…