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The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Victoria Song, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Vision Pro demo, the Samsung Galaxy S24 announcement, and more of this week’s tech news.
00:00 — Intro
03:47 — Apple Vision Pro demo
44:30 — Apple Watch dispute
56:27 — Samsung Galaxy Unpacked & S24
1:19:00 — Lightning Round
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This is a podcast.…an audio-first podcast. I play it on youtube so I can see the faces of the hosts which is about 10% of the time I spend listening to the show. There is no need to have all these extra visuals for a podcast that’s be in audio only form for a decade.
Nilay, I sure hope you’re going to wear Vision Pro on the podcast as soon as possible.
MASSIMO have every right to make a watch. They were also very right to sue Apple.
20 million quest sold, and in each home, I can guarantee everyone in that house has tried it, so i would put it a lt over 50 million who have tried a vr
I bought it. I am so excited to pick mine up. It’s going to be absolutely amazing.
Are nilay & david mad at each other or something??
Photos have never been an objective representation of reality. It’s about time we got on board with our cultural skepticism of images.
38:35 VIGGO MORTONSEEN
I watch this show. I’ve seen Ready Player One. I adore SAO. I have friends that work at Meta and in Reality Labs that have multiple headsets…I have never tried a VR headset. Not sure I even want to…
Virtual means virtual — but VP is really based more like a computer. You don’t have to use avatars unless you want to.
VR —-> My only experience was years ago via Google cardboard, but that’s all. So I kinda know, but I don’t know. You know?
I use an Oculus Rift daily, which is 25% lighter than the Vision Pro, and it would be unuseable without the top strap. Granted, the Vision Pro sits closer to your face, but I will be surprised if everyone doesn’t end up using an alternative strap design.
Listeners and viewers cannot relate to 5 minutes discussing photos that no one can see with no links to where we can view them. A previous show talked about “Apple threads” — I had no idea what they were talking about because they didn’t explain it. It’s an ongoing issue how this podcast doesn’t give context to their topics since many people aren’t perpetually connected to tech news. It’s why I stopped listening 10 minutes to this episode, and why I haven’t kept interest in this pod in general.
We call these type of reviews “first impressions”
Does anyone watch CNN lol
Smart phones were a novelty back in 2007. Palm Pilot, BlackBerry and windows mobile were all trying to capture that market. Apple introduced their take and even the iPhone didn’t really catch on in the beginning due to the price. Then came the carrier contracts and the iphone went mainstream. At the current price the Vison Pro isn’t going mainstream. Spacial Computing is Apple marketing that tries and fails to justify the price. The crazy thing is that I don’t know if there’s a right price. We’ve seen Microsoft and Google try their hand at VR/AR and both walked back their efforts. As humans we’re social creatures. Even if we can interact with others while wearing the vision pro, its not the same. Think about a conversation with someone who is looking at their phone, it’s a social interaction that leaves something to be desired. With all of that being said I’m interested to see where this goes. If Apple can’t figure VR/AR maybe it was never meant to be… I mean Nintendo couldn’t figure it out in 1995… 🙃
37:27 I am of the strong opinion, that VR exists for Beat Saber, lol. Wtf is the point of the Vision Pro until it gets beat Saber. Then you have the problem of the fact that no first party, handheld controls exist. They have support for the PS five control but you can’t hold two of those and swing them around at boxes coming at you.
You could say.. they’ll make it work with hand tracking…….. and maybe with their $3.5k equipment it could be good. But anyone who has played Beat Saber knows that if your controller ever loses tracking for a second and you miss a single note and it ruins your 400 note streak… YOU’RE PISSED! I don’t see hand tracking ever being a flawless substitute for good VR controllers. And you just know that there will NEVER be support for Meta Quest Pro controllers, even though they’re supposedly “not competing” with the Quest.
I just think you can’t have a VR headset with ZERO controllers. It should just be so functional without for “spatial computing” things, but there should absolutely be a 1st party VR gaming controller. Has Apple never seen Ready Player One!?! “Spatial computing” EXISTS for gaming!
lol does she work for Zuck ? lol that review sounds horrific 😂
I did not think it was heavy at all. I had it on very close to 30 minutes and never felt it was heavy…
Apple Vision Pro is looking more and more like 2024’s Google Glass. General debate and confusion over what it is and a lot of hype by early adopters. It’s like people already forgot how much consumers hated those featherweight and cheap 3D glass, yet folks are supposedly in love with a pair of goggles that weigh as much as a Steam Deck.
It’s amazing to me how little insight this entire podcast delivers. They seem frustrated that the product exists.
Victoria basically made up every excuse why the Apple Watch not having a pulse oximeter like every other smartwatch on the market was like not a big deal. It’s actually a huge deal.