Totally. Even with the whole “metaverse” and idea that Quest transports you into a virtual world and you can live your life in that world…how is that meant to be appealing? And the fact that it is coming from Zuck makes people know that they want you in THEIR virtual world.

But Apple focused their pitch on using AVP the same way you’d use your iphone, ipad, or mac - as a screen that allows you to interface with digital content. Only for the AVP, that screen is AR.

Heard it in a reddit comment (yeah still using both) that this makes it easier to negotiate other upcoming defencemen contracts. So there’s a plus at least?

I really thought they were going to wait a year or two.

“Making people want to afford it before making it affordable” will likely go down as the smartest move Apple is making with the AVP.

They won’t take anything away. Or at least, they won’t compromise on the key things that make it good.

Right now they call it “pro” and keep the price high for early adopters and tech enthusiasts who will pay it.

Then they release the regular version… alongside “Pro 2”.

Pro 2 gets some fancy new features, while the regular version (and cheaper version) hits much of the same performance as the Pro 1 but for a more reasonable price.

So everyone is happy: early adopters got to have Pro 1 while everyone else had nothing, people who waited get a cheaper model that is just as good as this version, and enthusiasts who have $ to spend get to upgrade to a Pro 2 that is even better.

This.

I think it adds fun spice to games when you have a deck that you’ve played a lot.

But otherwise, and especially if your enjoyment in MTG comes primarily from brewing, and then seeing your decks perform, planechase robs you of that by making your decks operate in weird conditions.

I think that is largely why they are introducing it at this price.

If they didn’t hit a certain level of screen quality/ resolution, it wouldn’t be useable as a head-mounted PC.

So my guess would be that a cheaper model gets introduced with similar specs and features to the AVP as we have now…. But launch it alongside an Apple vision pro 2 that has even better specs.

Pulling for FLA but think it will be VGK for the cup. We’ll see….