Text/VR Gyro
The right way to say hello today: Did you grab the AVP?
At 5 a.m. Pacific time on January 19 (9 p.m. Beijing time on the 19th), the Apple Vison Pro officially opened for pre-order. Shortly after the scheduled sale, Cook also posted a video of the production floor on Twitter to celebrate the launch.
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Domestic friends have already begun to gear up before the release!
Preparations before the sale! (Source: Internet?)
From the moment the booking was opened, to the next more than 1 hour, the friends in the circle of friends began to show the results of "grabbing Vision Pro".
Gyro-kun also participated in this round of "big war". To be honest, ordering Vision Pro is easier than expected, I originally thought that there would be a common situation in China "sold out in xx seconds" and "sold out in 3 minutes", but in fact, the rush to buy in the offline Pick Up mode lasted for half an hour before it was sold out. As for online reservations (delivery time from March 8th to 15th), as of the time of publication, that is, 3 and a half hours after the sale, it is still in stock, and there is no complete dumping on the first day of sale.
Judging from the observation of Gyro's personal circle of friends, the main group of people who rushed to buy the equipment this time seems to be still concentrated in the VR/AR circle, the geek group and the investment and secondary market circles that pay attention to this industry, as well as the circle and some science and technology circles UP owners and media (friends cover the traditional game circle, but almost no one pays attention to the game circle), it seems that the shipment of the first batch of products may still be concentrated in the insiders in China. Of course, there are many scalpers who have also grabbed it, and the general shipment price of the scalper market is between 3.5-50,000, and some have been speculated to 80,000 or even more.
According to a lot of information in the past, the total number of Apple's Vision Pro in 2024 is about 40-500,000 units, and the first batch is about 8-100,000 units.
The "results" of the circle of friends:
I have to sigh that the overall consumption power of the circle of friends is still very strong!
Judging from the history of VR/AR products in the past, even from 2015 to 2017, science popularization is being done, and the most asked question by manufacturers is: "What is VR/AR and what can it be used for". It seems that Apple will also be difficult to skip this stage, but as a global consumer electronics giant, I believe that this period of time in the education market can be greatly shortened. Many people may be willing to buy tens of thousands of yuan of products for the Apple brand and early adopters, but whether it will fall into dust depends entirely on the value brought by the device, whether it is entertainment value or productivity value, which must have a rich and irreplaceable application experience on other platforms.
Now, Apple is rapidly building a content ecosystem based on the product, and this month Apple also announced that it will have more than 1 million apps available on it at launch, 150 3D movies and 250 Apple Arcade games. Apple has just released the latest Vision Pro tour video, which shows panoramic photos, spatial videos, Siri assistant interaction, office, checking email, listening to music, browsers, video calls and other scenes and interactions.
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In terms of content, it is understood that Vision Pro will have a large number of first-party applications online, but not all applications can be adapted before February 2. Some people who have already experienced Vision Pro told Snazzy Labs, a YouTuber on the X platform, that only about half of Apple's Vision Pro apps are optimized for Vision Pro, and several iPadOS apps run in the form of windows of spatial computing apps, which is similar to the effect on the iPad.
The following is the currently known AVP-related application information of VR gyroscope:
[Vision Pro First-Party Applications]
- Safari
- May
- FaceTime
- Keynote
- Notes
- Mindativity
- Freeform
First-party apps that Apple hasn't mentioned yet, but it's still possible that they will be available in compatibility mode on the Vision Pro:
- Shortcuts
- Reminders
- Numbers
- Pages
- Home
- Maps
- Books
- News
- Podcasts
- Apple Music Classical
- Shazam
- Stocks
[Vision Pro third-party app] (or available in compatibility mode)
- Adobe Lightroom
- Cisco Webex
- Disney+
- Fantastical
- Game Room
- JigSpace
- Max
- Microsoft 365
- Sky Guide
- Slack
- Zoom
- Super Fruit Ninja
- What the Golf?
- X/Twitter
- Discord
- Chase Mobile
- Marcus by Goldman Sachs
- Fidelity
- Signal
- 1Password
- Sonos
- CNN
- NBA
- ESPN
- Amazon Prime Video
- Peacock
- Paramount+
- Contour
- Demeo
- Just Hoops
- Mindway
- Rec Room
Applications that are not currently supported by Vision Pro:
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Gmail
- Threads
- Google Home
- Netflix
- iMovie