Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro headset

Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by veidr on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:10AM (#36253023)

I haven't heard that they won't allow them. Just that they won't make them. I suspect it would support Xbox and Playstation and Nintendo controllers at launch, even, since their other platforms do.

However, VR controllers are different in that they need to be tracked as they move through space much more precisely than those console controllers support. But maybe third-party VR controllers can also be supported. I think nobody knows that yet.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by armadsen on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:01AM (#36253426)

Yep, they explicitly mentioned (and showed, IIRC) that you can connect game controllers to the Vision Pro. Presumably it will indeed be PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch controllers, as well as the various third party controllers specifically sold for Apple devices.

But no word that I’ve seen on VR controllers.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by numpad0 on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:57AM (#36253854)

If you hold one Apple Remote each on your hands, and your hands were perfectly tracked, isn’t that basically same as Quest 1 with controllers?

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by veidr on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:25PM (#36261030)

definitely not

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by drewbeck on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @01:39AM (#36321869)

There's a reference in this developer video [0] to using VR controllers

[0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10088/?time...

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by veidr on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:38AM (#36322720)

I guess that makes perfect sense, actually, now that I see they are making such a big push to make Unity games work. Presumably some of those existing Unity games can't work without such controllers.

Good news!

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