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5 Ways Apple’s VR Headset Can Win People Over

Apple could change the conversation around VR and AR with its rumored mixed reality headset, expected to be revealed in June. CNET’s Bridget Carey shares five areas where Apple’s tech could shine and win people over. Apple’s AR/VR Headset: What to Expect in 2023: 0:00 What Will Apple’s VR Headset Actually Do? 2:00 Apple Health…

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Apple could change the conversation around VR and AR with its rumored mixed reality headset, expected to be revealed in June. CNET’s Bridget Carey shares five areas where Apple’s tech could shine and win people over.

Apple’s AR/VR Headset: What to Expect in 2023:

0:00 What Will Apple’s VR Headset Actually Do?
2:00 Apple Health & Wellness Apps in VR
3:16 Apple Fitness Apps in VR
4:40 Gaming on Apple’s VR Headset
5:22 Sports on Apple’s VR Headset
6:24 How Avatar Design Will Impact Apple’s VR Experience
7:28 The Apple Watch Made a Lot of Promises

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60 Comments

  1. Nothefishnemo

    April 28, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    And one way it won’t: $3000 VR Headset

  2. JazGalaxy

    April 28, 2023 at 1:18 pm

    Spaghetti at the wall is exactly why Quest sucks as a user experiemce

  3. Casey Roberts

    April 28, 2023 at 1:25 pm

    I was hoping to see Apple Glasses before the VR headset, which would make more sense. Apple should test the waters with something like Apple Glasses and then develop that concept further when it comes to a full VR headset.

    • Alan Moore

      April 28, 2023 at 8:28 pm

      AR is much harder than most people realize. On both the hardware and software/content sides. I see this as a platform to discover and develop yet to be imagined experiences.

  4. Rincewind54

    April 28, 2023 at 1:46 pm

    They will do what everyone else is doing but they will put an “i” in front of the name and charge twice what the competitors are charging.

  5. everywhereadam

    April 28, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    gIvE mE MoRe DuNe WiTh My DuNe

  6. Igor Costa

    April 28, 2023 at 2:02 pm

    for 3k… wich cost even more on other countries… It has to be THE best beta product ever.

  7. Daryl Oster

    April 28, 2023 at 2:09 pm

    This bait and switch will fall flat. The sleek glasses to wear all the time (bait) switched to a basic copy of what even facebook can’t sell… short the stock

  8. vvrr

    April 28, 2023 at 3:21 pm

    🎉

  9. Jose Ruiz

    April 28, 2023 at 4:08 pm

    Imagine live sports attendance and concert attendance that would be cool

  10. Havek Attacketh

    April 28, 2023 at 4:21 pm

    I am by far not an apple fan at all! However the M2 chips would be amazing for VR and apple really does put out good products its just notmally way over priced. But with apples ability to create inovative hardware I think they truly have the potential to bring something to the table.

  11. Darcy Fitzpatrick

    April 28, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    Apple’s take on this stuff will be so wildly different from (and superior to) meta’s, there’s a serious chance we could be looking at another blackberry situation in the making.

    Only difference being blackberry was at least successful with their offerings before Apple came and rewrote their entire book.

  12. FrankieB

    April 28, 2023 at 4:39 pm

    I’m just excited for the day the stage goes dark, smoke forms, music begins, and here comes Woz rolling onto the stage in the all new Apple Car!

  13. joelface

    April 28, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    VR CAMERAS. Apple sells a huge amount of phones each year, and it would be smart of them to announce that next year’s model will include the ability to record footage that will look best in a VR headset. 180+ degree 3D “vr” footage from every new iphone. They could partner with instagram or tiktok to have a VR-feed, where people who post VR footage have a new “feed” people can scroll through. That, combined with the fact that we’ll create lots of home videos and other content that will look better in VR that we’ll want to show our friends and family to convince them they need one too.

    It isn’t until we, the masses, are CREATING OUR OWN CONTENT, that there will be ENOUGH content to warrant putting the headset back on every day. If you don’t use it every day, it won’t catch on. Then, AFTER it has caught on, will Hollywood and Sports networks, TRULY compete for that market, not as a licensed gimmick, but as a chance to win over market share.

  14. Video Biker

    April 28, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    While I love watching your videos because you’re a great presenter, I am not sold on VR. I find programming ideas like AI, VR, MR, and these new CHAT programs don’t do anything for me

  15. Jason Hunt

    April 28, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    Have Siri not suck would help

  16. John Butler

    April 28, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    If the price ever gets reasonable (sub $500) I would use the headset every day to stream video content (Live TV, movies, etc). Also if it doesn’t look too dorky, it would be useful in AR mode while walking around a city. Walking directions. Business websites. Local Weather. The list goes on.

  17. Dragon 3D

    April 28, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    While I loved your points I still think the biggest way it can win people over is one you didn’t mention. That it using it as multiple monitors. I can only imagine how cluttered my workspace would get, going from having way too many tabs to having multiple screens where everywhere I look is somthing different, lol.

  18. TJ

    April 28, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    I want to sit in a music hall while listening to Classical music in spatial audio

  19. Artem Trubnikov

    April 28, 2023 at 6:30 pm

    Excellent video!

  20. teawa

    April 28, 2023 at 6:55 pm

    Keep these VR videos coming. I love em

  21. Mike

    April 28, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    The deal breaker is how people interact with it. If it’s not easier to use than an iPhone, people won’t bite.

  22. J DARG

    April 28, 2023 at 9:08 pm

    Apple could do it buy simply making a version of Logic Pro X for it and positioning it as a must have device for music producers for things like have virtual instruments that you could play or replicating world class master studios I usually use vr to play games like job simulator

  23. Zen CaptureAll

    April 28, 2023 at 9:21 pm

    Embodied Ai
    Siri (with an avatar body)
    interactive in AR + VR

  24. Javier Echeverria

    April 28, 2023 at 9:32 pm

    Maybe just maybe I can use it to find my Apple Watch and use my Apple Watch to find my iphone

  25. Sam Magner

    April 28, 2023 at 10:58 pm

    I hope they give us 24 months financing on the Apple Card! I want to do VR Work Outs…

  26. Muddy Export

    April 28, 2023 at 11:53 pm

    Headset’s tragic flaw: Siri. Not A. I. Recorded scripts.
    “Here’s what I found on the web.” Not going to cut it.
    Apple has to release the control paradigm and bring A. I. onboard with the headset. Else, money down the tube.

  27. Joshua Dadad

    April 29, 2023 at 12:26 am

    If apple gave us access to PCVR games (wireless streaming) we PC enthusiasts would buy it. But they won’t cause apple is apple and want to control all the content

  28. Paulo Sergio

    April 29, 2023 at 1:09 am

    AR. I am really excited about the uses with AR. And of course, something like “holograms” like you said when you are on a meeting room. This will be amazing.

  29. Eastman Webb

    April 29, 2023 at 1:15 am

    “Please give me more Dune with my dune.”
    That made me chuckle.

  30. M. MEL

    April 29, 2023 at 2:20 am

    Bridget is so fun, we need more of her!

  31. Wiwing Margahayu

    April 29, 2023 at 2:32 am

    mexico maya train is amazing idea

  32. NesKid

    April 29, 2023 at 2:55 am

    Thanks CNET for giving us more Bridget Carey. Her videos are the best. Keep them coming! The return of CNET Update would be amazing!

  33. RK Anime.D. טראפלגר

    April 29, 2023 at 3:24 am

    Hi I like this woman she cute 😍 amazing personality 💖

  34. Mike Coshan

    April 29, 2023 at 5:07 am

    If it had 3d interactions with the gorgeous & humorous Bridget then that would definitely give me the tingles😊 & definitely worth 3k lol, seriously though it would have to be extraordinarily advanced with a full FOV and pin sharp high resolution graphics with 120fps minimum. But battery tech is still severely lagging so hopefully we have a breakthrough in battery tech soon

  35. TERRY. W

    April 29, 2023 at 6:45 am

    Bridget could sell me anything..

  36. Gypsy Blood

    April 29, 2023 at 7:38 am

    How about online shopping. Instead of using fossil fuels to go everywhere and anywhere just to do shopping- VR! Imagine how the companies would enjoy far less returns simply because “it isn’t/wasn’t what I wanted” or “It doesn’t fit”! (Without driving up the costs of everything!!!!!)!!!!!

  37. Garry Callaghan

    April 29, 2023 at 9:36 am

    I believe that VR technology is probably the closest thing to a ‘Time Machine’ as I’m ever likely to get. Therefore, I bought both 1&2 Oculus Quests hoping they would deliver but was disappointed. I want that ‘killer’ VR moment when I can put on an Apple headset with combined 8k resolution and CONVINCINGLY travel back through time to a bygone era- say Jack the Ripper’s London and feel what it was like to be a resident when those historical murders were taking place in foggy, lamp lit cobblestoned Whitechapel. I’m 60 years and want mature experiences, not gaming- I’ve bought a handful, but they quickly failed to engage me. I effectively want a VR ‘Time Machine’ similar to the Starship Enterprise’s ‘HOLODECK’! – but on my head with minute detail via full resolution as though I was REALLY there. Or visit Ancient Rome’s citizenry and a Colosseum spectacle etc. Developers please come up with an App. for this!!

  38. Deauntre Shaffer

    April 29, 2023 at 12:06 pm

    They have to let Steam VR games in, just going to ignore PC VR gamers, isn’t that what VR originally started for? No steam I’ll wait for the quest 3 or HTC’s

  39. fading Taurus

    April 29, 2023 at 1:22 pm

    Give it for free people will start thinking 🤔

  40. SweetCherryGrower

    April 29, 2023 at 3:11 pm

    Instant like

  41. Brian Bastian

    April 29, 2023 at 3:18 pm

    Apple has already said they don’t care about VR, it’s all about AR. Not sure why all this coverage keeps referring to a VR headset. Maybe I’ll eat my words, but I think people will be very surprised (per usual) by the product and services Apple actually ships with this. And they’ll follow the same approach as with the Apple Watch when it comes to product-market fit. The biggest initial value areas will be gaming (Apple Arcade), productivity and sports/tv. But we shall see.

  42. Mike

    April 29, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    This is the beginning of the end for America 🙂👍🏽

  43. Lance T

    April 29, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    The one thing that I want to see in an Apple VR headset is that they don’t mess it up. I want it to make people interested in VR instead of making them write it off like they did with 3D TVs.

  44. Shahar Rozenbloom

    April 29, 2023 at 5:13 pm

    תהיה אפליקציית Teams לאפל גלאס עם אלפי משתמשים טים וגם אפליקציה לחינוך של אפל לפייסטיים עם אלפי אנשים כמו באפל פארק. שנקראת פייסטיים סקול.

  45. Coding Portfolio

    April 29, 2023 at 6:36 pm

    This is a weird launch they are doing. most of their previous hit product line successes were remakes:
    – iPod: took pre-existing and successful portable music industry and made their own mp3 player
    – macbook: took pre-existing and successful computer industry and made their own portable version
    – iPhone: took pre-existing and successful macbook and ipod (internet browsing and music) and mobile cell phone concept and put it into one singular product
    – apple watch: just took the widely used concept of a watch and combined it with their iphone which was already successful (although this wasn’t an immediately success it is now)
    – airpods: headphones already existed…. they just made their own pair that was also wireless

    but this VR is going into an industry that’s already seemingly semi-failing in what may be a fad or it may be the future. excited to see what happens… big flop? or big success?

  46. Baron Sekiya

    April 29, 2023 at 9:53 pm

    Better hope for face tracking so Bridget can retain her strong eye game even in VR.

  47. Lilly

    April 30, 2023 at 4:02 am

    im personally exited for the artistic implementations. something like an ar procreate that would be amazing!

  48. Mutch Louis

    April 30, 2023 at 8:54 am

    The p*rn industry i gonna see a meteoric rise since 4k HD streaming.

  49. Gaming in Still Life

    April 30, 2023 at 11:06 am

    Gaming

  50. richardbixler

    April 30, 2023 at 11:21 am

    If there’s on company that can get me to wear a head set without feeling like a complete dork, it’s Apple

  51. DDW65

    April 30, 2023 at 11:58 am

    I am curious about headset but 3000$ wow.

  52. Spence Andretti

    April 30, 2023 at 2:08 pm

    Num 1 way would be price $250 and boom let’s get it

  53. Auro

    April 30, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    The Quest ideas and apps are pretty cringy, the movie theaters scenario one of them… now the meditation? That can certainly work. Odysound as an example is without a screen and has cool and relaxing 3D sounds

  54. Sammyconigs

    April 30, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    No matter what it can do, how can anyone justify paying $3,000 for this thing!

  55. Ricardo L

    April 30, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    😂

  56. unkown 34X

    April 30, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    I won’t be changing my quest 2 anytime soon…. Apple always… F**** up. Meaning, it will only work qith apple, and it will be super expensive…..

  57. unkown 34X

    April 30, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Love Bridget tho 🙂 hate apple

  58. Chris S

    April 30, 2023 at 8:55 pm

    If anyone can do it, it’s Apple.

  59. Juan

    May 1, 2023 at 1:37 am

    Love seeing more Bridget!!

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