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How Apple’s 8K VR headset could lead to what comes next

Reports say an eye-tracking, lidar-equipped, dual-8K display VR headset could be wildly expensive but could also be the road to AR glasses. Here’s what’s been reported, and how it connects to technology we’ve already seen.

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Reports say an eye-tracking, lidar-equipped, dual-8K display VR headset could be wildly expensive but could also be the road to AR glasses. Here’s what’s been reported, and how it connects to technology we’ve already seen.

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  1. Adam Jung

    February 6, 2021 at 4:41 pm

    A pair of ski goggles with a strap-on 🤣😂🤣

  2. Arghadip

    February 6, 2021 at 5:00 pm

    You’re talking about 8K in 1080p? Why?

  3. RonTheNonToxic StraightWhiteMale

    February 6, 2021 at 5:09 pm

    Apple is Trash PERIOD!

  4. JM

    February 6, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    The ideas from 80’s are finally coming to life !… Or not yet?

  5. free

    February 6, 2021 at 5:36 pm

    I’m just looking on his glasses and damn, this man has a poor eyesight.

    • Eric H

      February 7, 2021 at 12:32 am

      At least it makes him look thinner even if it’s just part of his head.

  6. Dico Plus

    February 6, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    What? 14:57

  7. mr sirpad

    February 6, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    It probably will not come with the strap and battery

    • Karl Pryce

      February 6, 2021 at 11:49 pm

      They will cost a grand extra.

  8. JSindustry

    February 6, 2021 at 6:46 pm

    3000 dollars? Nope

  9. NackDSP

    February 6, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    Remember when the Iphone first hit the market? OK, you were ten years old. “They” said the price was too high and no one would pay for that huge touch screen. I sat through many meetings with cell phone marketing guys that said exactly that in 2007. Well today’s VR headsets look like the Commodore 64 of VR to me. Apple will certainly fix that with 8k displays. When driving race cars in the simulator it doesn’t do you much good when the corner in the distance that you are approaching at 180 mph is only being drawn with 16 pixels.

  10. Apple Entertainment Inc.

    February 6, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    “This a healthy year for APPLE” 🍎

  11. Max Beech

    February 6, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    I think they actually look really cool…way better looking than current competitors

  12. Ethan Helhowski

    February 6, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    I need to know more that is not just rumor or speculation

  13. KungFuChess

    February 6, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    I remember being told as a kid sitting in front of the television will make you go blind.. now people are strapping monitors to their eyeballs.

  14. Daniel H

    February 6, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    Did our eyes evolve to see 8k? No? And do they come with prescription glasses for the damage it will cause to your eyes?

  15. Potato Face

    February 6, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    Standalone?! Heck no it won’t be… Standalone. How will it be powered?? Only $3K with what hardware? This is fake AF

  16. Callum Loves Gaming

    February 6, 2021 at 8:26 pm

    does seem a way too expensive windows mixed reality costs 160 in b condition at cex you could buy 24 windows hp mixed reality with both joy cons for the price of one of these you could build a budget gaming rig for 100ish using a dell optiplex and a gt 1030 acer monitor for 60 pound corsair hs30 for 30 pound refurbised and a mee too z56 a mechanical keyboard 25 pound logitech g203 for 18 pound vic tsing small mouse pad 4 pound 237 pound setup you could get 10 budget gaming setups for the price of one of these headsets depending on what vr and optiplex you pick could do light vr gaming at low resolutions with some tweaking in some games i mean just look at lowspecgamer mans done vr on less and his many videos

  17. hood Streams

    February 6, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    DOGE TO THE MOON SPARE A DOLLAR🚀

  18. Gr33nGame420

    February 6, 2021 at 9:16 pm

    Apple fan boyz are breathing very heavy now

  19. Anderson Chan

    February 6, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    I really like this host. Very informative

  20. Victor Tiamson

    February 6, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    3k for an Apple? nahhhh

  21. Mike Beck

    February 6, 2021 at 10:43 pm

    Gross apple really shouldn’t

  22. Karl Pryce

    February 6, 2021 at 11:34 pm

    If there idea is to charge 3 grand for a headset, then they have lost the bloody plot. Good luck to all you all the rich that can afford it. They have always been done over by cheaper brands, this will be no different.

  23. John Juxi

    February 7, 2021 at 12:33 am

    SPECULATION JUST SPECULATION WHO IS GETTING MORE CASH IN THEIR PACKETS WITH THIS RIDICULOUS GOSSIP THANKS TO THIS IDIOTS I WANDERING HOW MANY NOTCHES THIS IDIOTIC DEVICE COULD HAVE?

  24. ndclark

    February 7, 2021 at 1:25 am

    Thanks for keeping us updated.

  25. Zain Mumtaz

    February 8, 2021 at 1:47 am

    If the future is a $3000 VR headset, then my all mean stay with the current generation. If these companies think that they will sell a product more than a person’s monthly income then pls don’t. A phone that hasn’t been changed for 3 years and now doesn’t includes a charger is fine

  26. Chris Donald

    February 8, 2021 at 3:47 am

    8:04 looks like a horror movie

  27. J Styles - J 風格

    February 8, 2021 at 3:58 am

    And the charger is not included…..

  28. Soul Walker

    February 8, 2021 at 5:35 am

    🤦‍♂️

  29. Keyz Keaton

    February 8, 2021 at 7:30 am

    Another overpriced underwhelmed product from Apple that they will have their coat spend their last four

    • gu3z1

      February 8, 2021 at 9:10 am

      I don’t think it will be underwhelming, but it will be useless for sure. There’s no computer, much less an apple computer, that can run any VR game at 8k resolution. I don’t see a point, especially when 4k VR is so crystal clear. Focus on widening FOV or something, not specs that nobody needs.

    • Keyz Keaton

      February 8, 2021 at 1:46 pm

      @gu3z1 the human eye can’t even detect 8K 🤷🏾‍♂️ so it becomes pointless it just starts become numbers that they’re rattling off

  30. Max Jacoby

    February 8, 2021 at 8:33 am

    Microsoft 5 years ago releasing super-innovative Hololens. People: meh…
    Apple releasing 10 years-old tech. People: standing ovation…

    • Kena Kiruri

      February 8, 2021 at 11:06 am

      True, but the hololens was never meant for individual buyers

  31. veenit

    February 8, 2021 at 8:41 am

    Yea we need more tech to isolate ourselves become socially awkward our life already exists only online.

    • Dance Moms Tea

      February 8, 2021 at 9:19 am

      ok boomer

  32. Kamil K

    February 8, 2021 at 9:15 am

    Apple: let’s do cars, vr and soon possibly rockets as per fashion

    • Kena Kiruri

      February 8, 2021 at 11:05 am

      1:19 let’s do s*x toys

  33. drag Lesnar

    February 8, 2021 at 10:34 am

    8k for 8k

  34. Philip Harrison

    February 8, 2021 at 11:50 am

    I love my PSVR but I think it works well because of the headband which helps balance the weight and means your neck doesnt struggle over the hour or two of wearing. My brother has the quest and you notice the front loaded weight straight away and then during gaming it becomes a burden. yes you will get used to it but that is already a tall order to ask for many people who arent prepared for VR. It needs to be as versitle as possible to introduce it to the masses.

  35. Gary Morrison

    February 8, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    I don’t think there’s much value in 8K resolution for a headset: Human vision is simply not that resolute!

    8K does make sense for extremely large displays used for what might be called “surround vision”: essentially the same idea as I-Max. A screen where you are free to move your head and pan your vision around the display. At any one instant in time, you’re looking at somewhere around an HD screen’s resolution piece of the larger screen.

    If the goggles move with your head, and it repaints the image in react to your head movements, then you don’t need much more than 4K. We will still move our eyes around within that 4Kish image, so you can certainly argue for higher than HD resolution, but higher than that, our eyes seem very unlikely to be able to see much difference above 4K.

  36. C'est Moi

    February 8, 2021 at 12:58 pm

    Sorry to be transparent and point out the obvious that sooOOOOooo many appear %o miss. 1) apple always price ‘new’ technology high as they can limit their risk by producing few number and also than release a more mainstream product 1 year later the the paying ginne pigs have done their job. 2) they always release a rumored high price so everyone will report ‘oh that’s not so bad’ when they actually announce a slightly lower price that without the softener would have been regarded as ridiculously expensive 😂🤣 so obvious to any behavioral scientist 👨‍🔬

  37. camachocarranzajoseluis

    February 8, 2021 at 2:06 pm

    Apple wants everything why apple it’s making products if some people are not gonna buy it because they like android

  38. Opus

    February 8, 2021 at 5:30 pm

    I don’t think VR will go mainstream until lightweight glasses that don’t make you feel claustrophobic become reality. So yeah basically Tony Stark level stuff. When they hit that level, they will be expensive $3-$5k. But at that point it’ll be like a cellphone in that everyone’s gotta have it.

  39. CrewNYC

    February 8, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    Distracted by Soundwave.

  40. Steve None

    February 8, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    No one comments on the longevity of the batter. Seeing that it is pushing 8K resolution. I don’t think those monitors will draw a small amount of power.

  41. Nikhil Bhoyrekar

    February 8, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    I hope they will not sell strap seperately at 399$ or Say Charger sold seperately 😂😂

  42. wolf spirit

    February 8, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    Great why can’t there be ones that inquire you not putting it in and instead you can just hook up a cab to the bottom of your phone

  43. AJ Cullen

    February 8, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    I’ve jumped into the apple ecosystem but I would in no way shape or form spend 3k on a VR headset when i can get a Quest 2 much much cheaper and the quality is awesome…

  44. Jason

    February 8, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    You need a particular type of PC? That’s so vague. He means a $2000 to $3000 gaming PC or laptop. The problem about gaming PCs and Especially laptops is that they get old very fast. I mean if you had a 400 to 500 dollar GPU (the graphics chip) from 2019, the 400 to 500 GPu of 2020 is nearly twice as fast. It’s a losing battle every year. Even a scalped PS5 will be less than a gaming PC, and PS5 will be relevant for 7 years. Try playing a 2020 AAA title on a 7 year old Gaming PC and it’s not gonna be good. Don’t buy PS5 or Xbox Series at scalped price. You will get one by the end of 2021 or mid 2022 at retail.

  45. Alan jones

    February 8, 2021 at 11:22 pm

    Oh apple you make me laugh.. Just wait a month and get the v. R apple 2 🙄😂😂😂

  46. man with pen around neck

    February 9, 2021 at 12:05 am

    None of the Apple products I meant for every day people

  47. Håkan Bråkan Kråkan

    February 9, 2021 at 12:09 am

    To match the resolution for just the 2° center of your sight you need about 8K per eye. (The rest of the approximately 180° view only need about 1K, if even that.) However—unless you can manage to create an 8K display that mechanically moves with your eyes (or perhaps uses movable mirrors or some other solution.)—you’d need displays for each eye that has a resolution similar to what a 360K display can present to cover the approximately 90° total field of vision the 2% center of the eye can focus on (by moving the eye). Even if only a small part (the place your eyes focus on) of that display need to present high-res images at any given time.

  48. man with pen around neck

    February 9, 2021 at 12:14 am

    Google as always just gives up

  49. Donal Romano

    February 9, 2021 at 12:43 am

    Don’t justify Apples BS high prices! Make them compete!

  50. Turt Ls

    February 9, 2021 at 2:34 am

    Apple can get POG here.

  51. Jaydee Bb

    February 9, 2021 at 2:48 am

    When Apple gets into vr we are f you know why right look what thay did to phones drive up price thanks to mindless Apple use over paying so other companies will follow because why

  52. Literally

    February 9, 2021 at 3:19 am

    Who else remember the Virtual Boy of Nintendo?

    • unknowna1

      February 9, 2021 at 9:07 pm

      Probably the same people who remember what a ViewMaster 3D was

    • Literally

      February 9, 2021 at 9:12 pm

      @unknowna1 Yesss!

  53. s1xtc3nt

    February 9, 2021 at 4:12 am

    Apple needs to do for VR what tesla did for electric vehicles. Start high price small volume and move to lower price larger volume.

  54. Jared Braun

    February 9, 2021 at 4:56 am

    I really dont understand why we cant use the ultra powerful phone we already have in our pockets for the processor. I know why apple doesnt, they never fail to jump at the opportunity to vacuum up any cash left in our wallets but everyone else doesnt make sense to me.

  55. Julian Achille

    February 9, 2021 at 5:03 am

    The title of the video actually made me laugh

  56. DJ Speedy Beats

    February 9, 2021 at 8:38 am

    You gotta be an idiot or very rich to buy this. I would rather put 3k into some good stocks and when I retire have a good amount back

  57. retrowave

    February 9, 2021 at 9:06 am

    It’s an overpriced Oculus quest

  58. Chris Redfield From Planet Relotius

    February 9, 2021 at 9:30 am

    Man, your Glasses are killing me. After half of the Vid I feel dizzy 😵

  59. dsalpha18

    February 9, 2021 at 10:56 am

    3 grand for VR? It better come with 4 wheels and a fridge.

  60. Jamilmariam x

    February 9, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    Are you everyone’s Client

  61. Napalm SMG

    February 9, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    how does this guy know so much about vr but he takes his quest outside???? They legit put warnings everywhere to not do it

  62. Emeralds

    February 9, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    Put that $3000 in an index fund and look at it 3 years after when this device has dust on it and never used and you’ll be surprised at the results

  63. shreesdbn

    February 10, 2021 at 1:28 am

    Such a useless video! please rename it price comparisons , model comparisons . What comes next ? really ? waste of time .

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