Apple's limited in-person Vision Pro developer labs are poorly attended

Not much motivation to write apps for the platform for a long while.  Whatever money/resources developers put into writing apps for it won't be recouped until there's a mass market, which won't happen until the prices come down by 2/3 at least and the headset becomes glasses.

twolf2919 said:

Not much motivation to write apps for the platform for a long while.  Whatever money/resources developers put into writing apps for it won't be recouped until there's a mass market, which won't happen until the prices come down by 2/3 at least and the headset becomes glasses.

If they waited until they were glasses it would be many more years. But those are two different products anyway, glasses are AR-only.

StrangeDays said:

twolf2919 said:

Not much motivation to write apps for the platform for a long while.  Whatever money/resources developers put into writing apps for it won't be recouped until there's a mass market, which won't happen until the prices come down by 2/3 at least and the headset becomes glasses.

If they waited until they were glasses it would be many more years. But those are two different products anyway, glasses are AR-only.

Fair point. VR app developers should be interested now. I wonder if Blizzard is considering a VR version of some of its games, like World of Warcraft. I would really like to fly around the WoW universe on a flying mount in VR. And if possible, I'd like to be able to map some gestures to some basic in-game spells like Mount, Dismount, Run, Up/Jump and Down. Just that limited set of features would be awesome.

But even if Blizzard doesn't care to do any of this, we know from Apple's Keynote that there will be a way to grab a Mac's screen and place it into a flat window in the Vision Pro's headset. That will still be pretty amazing. That will be one of the first things I try.

There are opportunities for developers of existing VR apps that allow engineers to check for example, build-ability/repairability of an airplane/car etc by  seeing if the technician  can "reach" into the space to fit/remove the part.. Those "apps" sell now for many thousands of dollars and are a complete package that integrates with CAD/CAE systems. They should be jumping in feet first.

I presume that those putting Apple “under fire” are non attenders. Then the complain that the events are poorly attended? They used to call that a self-fulfilling prophecy.