Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip

Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by PaulHoule on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:26AM (#45594034)

Playing Beat Saber on the MQ3 I meet people who are enthusiastic about VR, who share immersive content (pano video shot with https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam-3) and there are plenty of games in the store... compared to other gaming platforms where I meet a lot of younger people, I find there are a lot of older and retired people using VR, which is not what Meta is looking for for a Facebook replacement.

My take is the MQ3 is pretty good for UX. I regularly use my image sorter and RSS reader in a web browser with a huge number of windows open, bringing my click targets up to the WCAG AAA standards made them very usable in this environment. The Apple Magic Keyboard pairs perfectly, as does a mouse. The controller work great for games and other immersive applications.

I'd say though that my game backlog on the MQ3 is long as is my game backlog in Steam, and there is just a huge amount of competition from flat content so I don't play as many VR games as I could.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by ACCount37 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:40AM (#45594269)

Survivorship bias. You don't tend to meet people who played Beat Saber 2 times and put the headset on the shelf forever.

The metrics are brutal, for Quest 3 and for every other headset. Meta worked hard to bring the costs down and improve the UX, and it still isn't enough. They wanted "the next smartphone" and fell so short it's not even funny.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by array_key_first on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:40PM (#45601212)

That's because for almost every application, VR is strictly worse than more traditional interface methods.

It's less comfortable, inputs are much less precise, inputs take longer, output is less legible, output has less information... The list goes on.

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