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Apple doesn't want it to be VR. They want people to buy this expensive VR headset and wear it all day, but you can't wear it in public because of how silly it looks, and you can't carry it around everywhere because it doesn't fit in your pocket and you can't just toss it in a bag without damaging it, and you can't even just wear it around your house unless you're moving from outlet to outlet. The Vision Pro is an impossible cross between Facebook's Quest Pro and Smart Glasses products. The technology to make a successful product out of it doesn't exist yet.
There are ways to use the Vision Pro as a regular VR headset, but then you're paying for things you're not using.
What can you even do with it?
No normal VR games.
Do they want people to use it for work or at home? How do you work with a VR headset, do they expect you to write emails with it?
If not for work then what? Why would you use it at home if you can't game on it? There is always porn but there are also cheaper solutions for that.
in case you were wondering, you can attach a bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. or you can use it to act as a monitor for your macbook, so you could type on that. theres a virtual keyboard too, but if course it would suck to work on (based on second hand reports, i've never used one)
i think "really big screen" for movies or laptop display is about it for useful work features. also, some people like to put windows everywhere and work like that ig.