Just learned that the super secret in-house demonstrations for Apple’s AR headset are called ‘Fight Club’ demos, because you’re not supposed to talk about Fight Club.
There was a momentous gathering at Apple Inc. last week, with the company’s roughly 100 highest-ranking executives descending on the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. The group, known as the Top 100, was there to see Apple’s most important new product in years: its mixed-reality headset.
I recall writing a blog post in the earliest days of the Burger, maybe even back at jspace, keening for a headset I could wear to play games. It felt like the tech had to be only two or three years away. And that’s, what? Twenty years ago?
To be honest, I’m not keening so much now. My eyes aren’t what they used to be so I don’t know if I’d even be able to use one. And as Bloomberg’s sources point out, the starting price will probs be around three grand US. (So five thousand Pacific pesos.) There won’t be any great games or apps. It’ll need an external battery that runs down after a couple of hours, by which time it’ll likely be very uncomfortable anyway.
Still, my imagination headset is cool.
Something like a pair of Raybans, with unlimited power and some sort of death ray.
i can get behind it if the mixed reality gets to a point where i can set it on Dnd so that when i walk into a bar its full of cads, dark sinister rangers sitting in the corner and orcs quaffing beers (as opposed to gym bros, that guy who always reads a book by himself in the corner with a beer and a whole bunch of guys in FIFO flouro)
i can get behind it if the mixed reality gets to a point where i can set it on Dnd so that when i walk into a bar its full of cads, dark sinister rangers sitting in the corner and orcs quaffing beers (as opposed to gym bros, that guy who always reads a book by himself in the corner with a beer and a whole bunch of guys in FIFO flouro)
I know better ways to induce an epileptic seizure.
I still miss jspace. And to date, VR has been a bit of a crock.
Good games are hard to find. However, Microprose is working on an 8th Air Force VR game that looks promising.
There are YouTube videos out there that show what’s coming.