A dad finds the only really practical use for a new €4,000 Apple product: cleaning

JVTech News A dad finds the only really practical use for a new €4,000 Apple product: cleaning

The best possible use of a VR headset??

As the world of video games struggles to keep its head above water, augmented reality is taking up more and more space with new models that are increasing in number of uses. In addition to being able to entertain you with games, mixed reality comes into play, with the possibility to monitor your environment and interact with it by adding “virtual layers”.

This is the case for the Meta Quest series, but also for Apple’s famous Vision Pro, which seems to go far beyond all of its competitors. Encased in metal, the headset interface offers impressive tracking of the user’s eye and finger movements to interact with visionOS. It makes sense for Apple to enter the market with a high-end product to attract attention and show off its muscles, but inevitably, the price stings a bit: at $3500 in the USA, the Vision Pro is still not sold in France, but with the tax on electronics, when the product arrives in France. It should cost a good €4,000.

With such a price, we hope to be productive, interact with new content technology and live an immersive experience that plunges us into a parallel universe like never before, right? Sure, and here’s one of the best possible uses for a mixed reality headset: cleaning.

It is quite serious, and Daniel Beauchamps, an engineer specializing in virtual and augmented reality, shows us one of his experiments that proves the main interest of a mixed reality headset. So see:

Using his meta quest, Daniel introduces a new innovative activity: “spatial vacuuming”, the term “spatial computing” used by Apple to describe its Vision Pro. The principle is simple: vacuum, but in an enhanced way, meaning being able to visualize the areas you’ve passed through to make sure you haven’t missed the slightest corner.

If you look closely at the video, you can see an image of the Meta Quest controller at the bottom of the screen. This means that the actual controller is probably attached to his wrist off-camera, and therefore makes it possible to follow the movements of the vacuum cleaner. It’s a genius idea, and still very funny.

Vision Pro is scheduled for February 2

Aside from a few jokes on Twitter, the $3,500 Apple headset is indeed set to launch in the USA in a big week. All this fuss is all well and good, but if the Vision Pro doesn’t make it to France… Fortunately, Bloomberg lets us think that France should be one of the first countries to be entitled to Apple’s headset. To be more precise, we will be part of the third wave, first the USA, and second Canada and the United Kingdom. Among these third wave countries, we find France, Germany, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.