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Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos (www.techspot.com)
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Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos::undefined

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only because it's an Apple product. They could have made it stream wirelessly from your MacBook, and make it smaller and lighter, but then you wouldn't have to pay another $3000 for the onboard processors.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They could have made it stream wirelessly from your MacBook

yeah, no. People really don't understand how much bandwidth you actually need to stream even normal 4k 60hz video, let alone something like this. For reference, when I was figuring out how to dump my pc in the basement and have the monitor in my office, I had to run 12-strand fiber cables to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Parsec?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've tried several remote desktop apps but the compression artefacts very quickly give me a headache. So I splurged for MTP cables and the display port dongles, and it works like a dream. Also, MTP connectors are pure fibre porn.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, no. Done it with WiFi 6, no problem. Meta has had Air Link for years. Works fine. You don't understand how much bandwidth you actually need.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

you need about 20 gigabits per second for 4k 60hz. Or more, for higher resolutions and refresh rate - which vision pro has, compared to ~6 gigabits per second, that you need for your quest pro's resolution. That's why they make these.

And having compressed video streaming to a VR device sounds like my worst nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wifi 7 has a peak rate of 40 Gbps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Maybe it does, and it still would (probably) not be enough for two 4k 90hz displays that this has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And is nowhere in any consumer product today. How is it relevant to this discussion?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Vision Pro is also not a consumer product today.

WiFi 7 was all over the devices at CES though. It's happening soon.