Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉How many Apple VR headsets are you ordering on launch date:
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Six
Twelve
None, I have no taste and hate technology
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I generally boycott Facebook, but we do own six oculus. Only two are on heavy rotation.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@Migueldeicaza Wow that’s crazy. I barely know anyone who owns 1, nobody has multiple.
It’s too easy to fall into the trap of thinking that your own experience is a representation of everyone else’s.
@philip yeah these devices slowly gained popularity at home.
The big one we never use, and we have two of the old portable ones that get no use anymore.
@Migueldeicaza I got the original Dev kit via kickstarter. Played around with it a bit, then passed it on to a local school for use.
Not sure I’ve seen another since.
Dave Neary@Migueldeicaza Should that be oculi? My Greek is rusty...
Sebastian Dröge 🍵@dneary @Migueldeicaza Latin 😅 But oculi is correct probably
@slomo @Migueldeicaza Maybe Oculodes?
John Brewer@Migueldeicaza In addition to Facebook being actively evil, I’m more of an AR/MR guy myself. I started on Magic Leap, but also developed for HoloLens. Hoping Apple succeeds where they failed.
@jbrewer_jera god I love my HoloLens, and in particular a mystery game that is “custom fit” to your room. I can’t wait to play more stuff like that.
@Migueldeicaza Even if Apple’s headset doesn’t succeed, at least I get to develop stuff in Swift and Metal this time ‘round.
@jbrewer_jera We are all going to have a good time.
Ok if you voted “none”, it is your civic duty to help those that want a six or twelve packs, because Apple usually limits how many of these you can get.
Khalid ⚡@Migueldeicaza I’ll buy one if you send me $4,000 first.
@khalidabuhakmeh i see what you did there
@Migueldeicaza Look, my dogs can’t survive off of virtual treats. They need the real stuff.
Jernej Simončič �@khalidabuhakmeh @Migueldeicaza I'll do it for $3500!
@jernej__s @Migueldeicaza What?! If you were a true Apple fan you’d know discounts NEVER happen. Miguel, you can’t trust this person.
@Migueldeicaza Seriously, how do you think Apple will handle this? A pre-release unit soon (like Apple’s Developer Transition Kit for Apple Silicon), followed by consumer units in the fall?
@jbrewer_jera they better not ruin my vacation :-)
Emilio Peláez@Migueldeicaza I’m old enough to remember the time Apple gave us devs Apple TVs for $1
Helge Heß@emiliopelaez @Migueldeicaza That's in 2015 dollars.
I am disappointed to mostly have Luddite followers
Larry (Mr.Optimization)@Migueldeicaza That's not quite a fair characterization. There's a large spectrum between tech haters and people who embrace every shiny new product. I recently worked for an AR company and their newest/best HW was nowhere near good enough for me to spend hard earned $ on. If it's:
- Heavy
- Sweaty
- Laggy
- Expensive
- Without actual benefit
I'm not interested.
So... it will probably be many years before I embrace whatever AR/VR gadget comes out.
Stefan Monnier@fast_code_r_us
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I don"t know what Miguel meant by "luddites" but they were not tech haters
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I don"t know what Miguel meant by "luddites" but they were not tech haters
@monnier @fast_code_r_us over analyzing jokes rarely is fun.
Larry O'Brien@Migueldeicaza Some of us are still paying off the wheels for our Mac Pros.
@lobrien this are good wheels bront
Tikitu@Migueldeicaza technically sophisticated and extremely engaged with the social consequences of developments in technologies of production? What’s not to like? 😛
Jason Wehmhoener@Migueldeicaza the Luddites were pro-economic-justice not anti-technology. They were, themselves, technologists. Especially Ned Ludd.
Marcello Lamonaca@Migueldeicaza I am interested in VR headsets, just not Apple ones.
I'm not into the ecosystem of Apple products. Mostly for the prohibitive price
Pär Björklund@Migueldeicaza I don't really get excited about tech anymore, power tools and gardening is so much more fun 😀
Bill Vinson@Migueldeicaza Not luddite, just:
* Avoid 1st gen Apple products AT LEAST until proven
* Nothing about the headset has sounded compelling... yet
* Do I really want to do fitness in a $3k headset... NO. I refuse to sweat on something that costs that much
* No VR gadget has been compelling so far to me. Oculus came closest, but being part of Facebook poured cold water on that…
Waiting to see if the actual announcement does anything for me…
jwz
Eric Vitiello@Migueldeicaza sarcasm seem to be lost on many of them too
Internet Hedgehog@Migueldeicaza how many kidneys are you buying?
Jonathan Gerlach@Migueldeicaza I promised myself I’d buy one, but I would like to own zero of them.
@JonathanGerlach valid perspective!
lorddimwit is now @
Kevin Jones@Migueldeicaza Miguel there is very clearly an option missing from this poll: A bakers-dozen. I need thirteen of these.
Aaron Toponce ⚛️
@Migueldeicaza Can I interface with it in VRML?
@atoponce I have no idea what the feature set is. I just know it will be majestic!
Brian Swetland@Migueldeicaza None. I do not give my money to Apple.
@swetland thoughts and prayers
@Migueldeicaza Mine with you as well as you support a company bent on destroying general purpose computing. ^^
(I am very disappointed by the appliance-ization and lock-down of platforms and still am a bit grumpy about the trash talking and legal bullshit during the early days of Android. Apple does not bring me joy. Very much the opposite. The magic of the computer is it is *your* device you can do anything with and I feel taking that control away from device owners is a huge step backwards.)
@swetland I disagree :-)
Tim Aidley@Migueldeicaza Obviously it will depend how much it will cost, but also... if I want to develop for it then I'm going to need to also buy a Mac, and all that money adds up.
Funnily enough, the main reason I bought an android instead of an iphone back in 2009 was because I couldn't afford to buy both a new phone and a whole new computer just to write things for it. Otherwise I might have been an iphone user for years now.
@Migueldeicaza I am disappointed these are not multiples of 8
@pixel It is just by Babylonic bias.
@Migueldeicaza Just the one.
Vivek Gani@Migueldeicaza Six? Twelve? I haven't even opened the Tilt Five box yet.. (ordered during a different time in life and been meaning to get rid of more tech in my life)
Mark Levison
Scott Robbins@Migueldeicaza I'll be happy if Apple is able to convince me VR headsets are useful, but outside of some minimal entertainment, I just haven't understood the appeal. Maybe this will finally be the one that doesn't give me motion sickness.
I do see a lot of value in AR in the reasonably near future though.
Jeff Atwood@Migueldeicaza I will need more than 12
@codinghorror @Migueldeicaza hopefully it’s sold as a bakers dozen and you’ll get one free!
Chad Geidel@Migueldeicaza Where's the "I want to believe" option? :)
JonathanTreffler@Migueldeicaza
0, waiting for Valve to do something ... anything. Nothing since the Index in 2019
0, waiting for Valve to do something ... anything. Nothing since the Index in 2019
Zach777@Migueldeicaza Do I have to have an account with these Apple VR headsets?
Also those are expensive, I would just buy a valve index lol.
Also those are expensive, I would just buy a valve index lol.
Feoh@Migueldeicaza I'd buy one in a heartbeat if it came with working stereoscopic vision but I'm guessing iOpticNerve is gonna be a while :)
@Migueldeicaza All kidding aside, I know a while ago I was ranting and roaring about the Apple ecosystem because of the horrible experiences I had with the bufferly keyboard Macbook Pro, but having gotten an m2 Macbook Pro a few months back I'm in love with the platform all over again :)
It's an absolutely gorgeous machine and the new MagSafe connector makes me happy literally every time I plug it in. It's the little things, you know? :)
@feoh it is a lovely machine, and the speed is insane