just saw this on twitter and it might be happening faster than i thought. this would suffice to resolve the market yes if/when it happens

edit: this doesn't count

Wait, would you actually call this „convert“ to a headset? If the phone is not mounted to the head, then it is not an HMD.

Yes, you are right. I did not word this question the way I intended, but I think it makes more sense to stay with your definition since this is how most participants understood the question.

Converting a phone to a VR hmd is already a thing for Android. What is required to meet your resolution? Would the specs (resolution/framerate/etc) have to match today's vision pro or would you allow an app which splits the screen for each eye and a headband for the phone to count?

There are probably many options on the market already but none of them are made by Apple, probably because the specs would be terrible even compared to current cheap headsets

I don't see how they could make the image quality (and the latency etc) remotely good enough

I mean theoretically you could have a kit that "turns" an iPjone into a Vision Pro, but it would look like a "Vision Pro and a cable to plug in your iPhone"

Like, forget the fact that the displays in the Vision Pro cost almost as much as a complete iPhone

The Vision Pro also has a laptop chip + an specialized AR chip

It has way more cameras and several Lidars, an eye tracking system and motorized lenses

It needs a fan to work, and it blows through the equivalent of 3 iPhone batteries in 2 hours

Sure, this will all get better over time, but before 2030 (barring an intelligence explosion or something) an iPhone-based system, if possible at all, would either be prohibitively expensive or much worse quality than the Vision Pro. And I don't see sacrificing quality any time soon.

I don't want to freeze too much mana for this long but I feel like driving this price into the ground