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Ask HN: What Happened to the Apple Vision Pro?

4•pera•4h ago
The Apple Vision Pro was released just two years ago but somehow I completely forgot about it, does anyone still use it for anything?

I've never had the chance to try one but I do remember many people referring to it as a revolutionary piece of technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593

Comments

slater•4h ago
They're still available. Check tomorrow during WWDC's keynote, there might be an update:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc25/

pera•4h ago
Ah yeah I see they are still being sold online, I thought they were discontinued
leakycap•4h ago
Shocks me they never even attempted to lower the price, especially given the flop and reported excess stock on hand.

They even lowered the original iPhone price to help it succeed in the market.

layer8•3h ago
They stopped production half a year ago because they have enough back-stock to last until the next hardware update, rumored for either later this year or 2026.
leakycap•4h ago
I was in an empty Apple store the other day and thought about asking for a demo since they have them set up, but then I realized it could blow my mind and I'd still never spend $3,500 on a heavy head-worn computer that is limited like iOS.
layer8•4h ago
See https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-vision-pro/#apple-vi... for some coverage. While impressive technology, it kind of flopped, but Apple is ploughing on.
giantg2•2h ago
The other comments aren't surprising.

They released new hardware,but it really didn't differentiate itself in features or pricing from the existing market. There was no revolutionary use case to drive it forward. Existing competitors, such as HoloLens, already locked up the corporate market for things like maintenence spec or blueprint overlays. With a price point that is too high for mass consumer adoption, it's no surprise it flopped in the retail market too. Basically, the easiest answer for what happened to Apple Vision Pro is to just look up what happened to HoloLens. It's the same basic story, just a decade in advance.

matt_s•1h ago
Revolutionary technology I think needs to be something that gets across that early adopter chasm. We haven't really seen any 3D or goggle tech do that. There are VR things but I wouldn't consider VR video games a mainstream set of people. Mainstream to me is smartphones, AI usage, etc. things that catch on with the majority of the population.

I think that anything that is going to require humans to wear something on their head for entertainment purposes is not going to make it to mainstream. There will be niche uses and likely video games are a good niche. What is going to compel people to buy something like the Vision Pro when they already have smart phones that can do everything anyways?

Also, humans over 40 tend to start needing reading glasses and with each year of age more and more people need them. Its hard to have any device that covers the eyes also take into account people's vision issues, minor or major.

ndgold•58m ago
I just got my first one and love everything about it. Don’t understand the lack of uptake.
bdangubic•54m ago
I can give you 3,500 reasons for the lack of uptake
brudgers•50m ago
I think the issue is that vision is among the least important parts of virtual reality…an idea Ralph Koster describes here

https://youtu.be/kgw8RLHv1j4?si=-4Grus0FYlBJ6Fnl

And as a result, when X-was-done-using-Vision-Pro, inevitably the headline “x was done with Vision Pro”. The headline will not be about doing a-previously-undoable-x.

Vision Pro does not facilitate teamwork and teamwork is how approximately all important things get done. Not solipsistically. I mean visualize a conversation through Vision Pro versus one using Facetime or zoom. You lose most non-verbal communication if you leave the goggles on.

Zoom and Facetime and even POTS and faxes are what successful virtual reality looks like, they collapse real space — collapse distances —- between people.

runjake•2m ago
The people still using the AVP that I know of are using it to watch movies and use it as virtual displays for their Macs.

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