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Apple 'Magic Battery' Will Power Vision Pro Headset

Seems unlikely.

I imagine 3rd party companies will be releasing much bigger and longer lasting battery packs
 
Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
Typical Tim Cook name. This is one of the rare occasions where I can honestly say... Steve Jobs would never have allowed this!
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People on here seem to know a lot about what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't do...give it up; this isn't his company anymore and it's time to move on, and he has been dead for a decade. A lot of rose colored glasses, too. Steve allowed plenty of failures though: iTunes Ping, the Lisa, the puck mouse, G4 cube, ROKR iTunes phone, Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.

As for this battery, it's a silly name, but will it matter for the small amount of people that will ever even use one of these? I don't know a single person that has any interest in this headset and it sounds like it will be hard to get for the people who do want one.
 
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Col4bin said:
Calling this train wreck of a battery “magic” is cringey at best. Not worth the TM in my opinion.
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Why is it a “train wreck”. How should they change it? By putting it on the headset? Why would it be better to carry that extra bulk and weight on your head? By increasing the battery life? So, they need to make the battery physically bigger? Or by reducing the displays and/or making the entire system slower?

Apple obviously feels that there is a certain level of performance this device needs to achieve. And to power that performance takes certain amount of energy. And that gives us the parameters for the battery. I bet they would love for the device to consume less power, but technology is not there. So we have this battery and two hours of battery life.
 
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jo-1 said:
nobody is entitled to buy it - I don't understand the relevance of commenting something you're not intending to buy.

I would gladly pay $ 5 k in case I could get a AVP today.

I will be first in line when it's available in Germany - at that technological level it's a steal for the money.

Hard for me to understand the negativeness - I payed for my MBP double the price and it's probably not even half the fun to use 🤣
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I simply want a pair a very high resolution display eyeglasses, so I can watch movies on the airplane without having to stare at my screen.

Why in the world a company would go for something with so much mixed reality before they have a simpler device to enjoy my existing iPad or phone is beyond me.
 
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Seriously guys, here are three features:

- Size/weight
- Performance
- Battery life

Now, you can only pick two. Apple chose performance and size/weight, so we got just two hours of battery life. They could have chosen performance and battery-life, but that would have made the battery physically even bigger. Or they could have chosen battery life and size/weight, and that would give it sluggish device with poor screens.

Anyone complaining that there is something wrong with the battery and/or battery life are basically saying that Apple should pick all three at the same time. That’s not going to happen. Or maybe you are saying that the device should have crappier performance and screens? Or that the battery should be even bigger?
 
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While a tethered battery ruffles the feathers of the usual critics it makes perfect sense to me. How else do you power that kind of technology? You can’t install an iPad sized battery. Even if you could it would be make the product too heavy to wear.
 
Evangelion said:
Seriously guys, here are three features:

- Size/weight
- Performance
- Battery life

Now, you can only pick two. Apple chose performance and size/weight, so we got just two hours of battery life. They could have chosen performance and battery-life, but that would have made the battery physically even bigger. Or they could have chosen battery life and size/weight, and that would give it sluggish device with poor screens.

Anyone complaining that there is something wrong with the battery and/or battery life are basically saying that Apple should pick all three at the same time. That’s not going to happen. Or maybe you are saying that the device should have crappier performance and screens? Or that the battery should be even bigger?
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Exactly. And battery technology has stalled out. There has been no improvement in power output vs size. Batteries use chemical reactions to produce power and the laws of physics apply, something many in these forums simply can’t grok.
 
That’s some next level cringe.

Magic Battery only makes sense if it’s able to charge both AVP and most or all current Apple devices via cable or wireless (MagSafe) with no extra cables required(every necessary is included).

One big Apple designed battery pack that charges every type of Apple device would be really cool.

But if it’s exclusively for Vision Pro then please don’t give it a brand name and just call it something like “Vision Pro Battery Pack”… because that’s what it is and nothing more.
 
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EllZ89 said:
curious how you will actually switch out the packs. will the headset act as a capacitor that can be powered for say, a minute, without the battery connected, or some sort of time deemed long enough to disconnect the dead battery and connect a full one without the need for it to force a quick sleep mode, or turn it off beforehand?
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If the battery is critically low a 'smart' headset would suspend itself to offline hibernation . But yes, more generally turn it off. If the world where laptops with swappable batteries still exist ( and even in Apple's more ancient history) , the need to turn off the laptop to swap in a new battery isn't something that invokes deep mystery.


This headset is probably heavy enough that taking a break after about 2 hours probably would help.

The 'power' menu could be augmented from ' sleep , restart , shutdown ' to ' sleep , swap battery , restart , shutdown '. Or the even more simpler menu of 'power off" only.

There is likely a small battery for what ever keeps track of the internal clock and extremely low level system/power management ( like reacting to the power key press. But enough to power the M2 and R1 while swap... probably not. Apple doesn't even power protect their SSD metadata either. If there was a even higher need to a cap power loss protection it would be for that; not the whole system. )




EllZ89 said:
this is territory that apple hasnt been in for a number of years with a battery that can, and will be user removable by design and so easily.
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That SSD power loss corruption protection is something that Apple has never done right in the first place. They'd need to cover some new ground.
 
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