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pjmlptoday at 5:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

It would help if it wasn't 3500 dollars, they did not embrace games, and were expecting developers to buy such devices for so little return in development cost, released at a time most headsets were already on yet again going down on another VR headset cycle.

It was bound to fail since day one.


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btowntoday at 8:26 PM

IMO one of the big misses for launch, and one of the most untapped markets for VR/AR, was business analytics & visualization. Any manager worth flying to a corporate retreat is worth getting a capex-treatable top-of-the-line device to see an extra dimension of data breakdowns. There would be a trendiness factor here, too, much like how every executive needed a Blackberry back in the day.

But one of my big takeaways from e.g. https://www.tableau.com/blog/exploring-spatial-computing-and... (2024) was that some of the most basic UX research around 3D visualization was left to the market to discover.

> During Tableau Conference 2024 in San Diego, we recruited 22 attendees to help us assess the usability, learnability, and potential utility of Tableau on the visionOS platform, along with broader perspectives on the potential for HMDs to create engaging experiences around data. Participants were tasked with a series of analytical exercises using one of three datasets. These tasks included specifying filter settings, changing data fields, and interpreting trends across various visualizations, such as bar charts, line charts, and a 3D globe. Examples of tasks included identifying the country with the highest CO2 emissions in Asia and determining when poultry production first exceeded beef production in South America.

If you want to launch a $3000 device properly, why are you making Tableau do this themselves?

DonHopkinstoday at 5:56 PM

Are there even enough active Vision Pro users to make the $3500 back selling an app for it, not even considering the cost to develop it, or Apple's 30% app store tax?

How about porting "I Am Rich" to the Vision Pro, and it could just show a glowing red orb floating in front of your face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich

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