Oh this is high quality!
Sometimes I wonder of all these Apple Vision memes popping up are a weak guerrilla marketing campaign by Apple trying to desperately make it relevant.
I sometimes feel like it’s the opposite. Memes and images of people being stupid while wearing the damn thing make me feel like people are trying to increase the stigma around it to kill it. I mean… this meme is showing the character completely unaware of their situation and doesn’t make the product seem good at all.
Yeah I mean VR headsets have existed for a number of years now. Weird how people are reacting this way to Apple’s headset but didn’t feel the same way about things like the HTC Vive, the Oculus/Meta Quest, etc.
For me there are two interesting bits that make the Vision Pro worth watching.
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When Apple gets into a new market, others follow. Whether you like apple or not, you have to admit they have sway in the industry. Remember how much wireless earbuds blew up after AirPods came out? At the very least, a big competitor has entered the VR space, which will pressure others to do even better.
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More on the apple fan side, it’s rare apple releases an entirely new line of products. And even more rare they take risks. This is risky, and therefore interesting!
Not sway but they have many mindless morons that’ll buy their products and make others want it therefore demand
Which is called “having sway” haha. They have a big audience. Doesn’t matter how you feel about said audience. They’re there.
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When Google Glass was a thing, I remember people being alarmed with the fact that it has a front facing camera and worry it’ll be abused to record videos in inappropriate settings without permission (e.g. public restroom). I think there were instances where the glass wear getting harassed because of this. The camera wasn’t even turned on by default.
Fast forward today, the vision pro has multiple always on cameras pointing to every direction, yet the thing most people worry about is how goofy it looks?
How times have changed. I guess people are more comfortable getting recorded these days with so many CCTV and smartphones around.
Although we have surely become more comfortable with cameras around us more often, if I remember correctly what freaked people out was that there wasn’t a visible indicator when Google Glass was recording.
Had Google added a tiny red LED next to the camera, it would’ve been different.
