I wore the Apple Vision Pro. It’s the best headset demo ever

After the Apple demo on stage I had similar thoughts.

All in all the demos are less ambitious than demos we saw 5 years ago with Magic. It even seems less ambitious than HoloLens promotional videos.

But what it does, seems to be done at a quality level substantially above anything seen before (not just anything in the consumer market)

But I also felt that is what made the promises believable and the device desirable.

I left apples online presentation wanting to try experience it, maybe even own it, which is unlike any other headset so far.

I said this in a previous thread and I'll repeat it here again.

Magic Leap[1] did it years ahead of them, and in my opinion better.

I mean - they're doing pass-through AR which is silly. There's all this work being done to emulate people and faces when they could just build lenses.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watch everyone get so hyped over this, because there's literally better devices already out on the mark. This is effectively a $3500 Oculus device. Like what the heck? I know it's just because Apple made it, but still. This is pretty weird to watch the reaction.

[1]https://www.magicleap.com

The main issue with VR is that there is still a headset that you have to wear, which even at a pound weight will make most peoples neck sore after a while (considering people who will get this probably don't have the best habits for posture anyways). There is a reason why most VR headsets get used only once.

Will be interesting to see if the experience in this can offset it. My bet is on no. I wish the focus would shift to AR. Having a pair of sunglasses that can display programmable text based on picture from embedded glasses is 10 times more useful than this thing.

“I’ve tried all of the experiences and stabs at making fetch happen when it comes to XR.”

This is the most apt analogy I’ve come across for the attempted XR products over the years.

Is kind of strange how attached Silicon Valley is to XR. They keep trying and trying, even when time and again the response is “stop trying to make it happen, it’s not going to happen”