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Samsung and Google's Vision Pro competitor won't launch until late 2024, a report says (mixed-news.com)

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The headset partnership between Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm was announced earlier this year. Samsung will be responsible for manufacturing, Google will contribute the operating system and software development, and Qualcomm will supply the chipset. The (unspoken) goal of the alliance is to bring a product to market that can compete with or even outmatch Apple's Vision Pro.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m sure the hardware will be great, but I doubt they will be able to compete with Apple’s ecosystem integration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just having an alternative -even partial- to Apple's ecosystem is enough for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Assuming it'll run android apps that's arguably a loss for apple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m mostly thinking about the Vision Pro demo where they were able to interact with a MacBook seamlessly. That’s a level of integration that I don’t think we will see out of this partnership. Hope to be proven wrong of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

my Quest 3 can run Android apps, I sideloaded F-Droid, Jerboa, and ScummVM into it lol

it honestly works better than expected, no complaints except you can't adjust the aspect ratio of the apps, they just stay in like a portrait mode (except ScummVM which correctly forces itself to always be landscape)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pico does too, and it puts everything in landscape/tablet mode. I don't understand why anyone would assume a VR headset (made by Samsung no less) wouldn't support Android apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can actually, you have to hit the "change view" button on the dock, and then you can scale the app up to be huge and any aspect ratio you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I meant in tablet mode, much nicer when walking around or using it barehanded

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, okay yeah.

I wouldn't mind better android app support, I've tried reading comics on it and I hate having to use the controllers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They also won't he able to get a foothold if it's not good for gaming

The PS2 was the best selling DVD player of all time for a reason

They're angling for productivity, but you can do productivity with other established brands, and it's hard to compete with the integration of Apple Stuff. So if I can do productivity on a gaming headset, why would I buy a productivity headset that doesn't do gaming?