Mastodawn

The $3500 face-covering, world-isolating, anti-social, uncomfortably heavy 3D computer headset with clunky external battery, limited optical quality, awful text input, awful voice input, primitive pointer input, a locked-down OS, almost no software, almost no content, and no good way to share it with anyone else in the household was held back by… poor retail training!

Yeah, that's it.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/07/vision-pro-troubled-launch-in-apple-stores/

New Book Details Vision Pro's Troubled Launch in Apple Stores

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SwampYankee 1d ago

@marcoarment Can't decide if this was a failed technology or a failed product. Maybe there was an alternate universe where face wearable computers are thing but it just doesn't seem to be something the public wants. Not just from Apple, from anybody. Can't see Apple spending anymore time on this. It will be allowed to wither, and then be cancelled without ever receiving a price reduction.

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Roger Moore

@SwampYankee @marcoarment
VR is a fun gimmick technology, but I haven't seen anyone propose a use that would justify it as a mass market product at the price it would apparently cost to make it work.