The Vision Pro wildly exceeded my expectations.
I would say that it feels very good and feels like a real consumer product, not just a toy. Apple having full vertical integration and great software really helped here.
I put it on upon receiving it and then didn’t take it off until the evening, charging it whilst using it along the way. It didn’t strain my neck or feel heavy. I should note that I switched to the Dual Loop band after the first hour: the Solo Loop put some stress on my face. I should caveat that I didn’t find AirPods Max to be super heavy, which others do.
It gets a lot of subtle things right, it feels intuitive to use, the image quality is incredibly good and I can do everything using the pass through cameras, including reading very small text. Apps are crisp and Mac mirroring is very good.
Using it in parallel with a Mac is great, because it absorbs the screen and also the keyboard and mouse, making it very easy to navigate and use on the couch or at a desk.
The virtual environments are beautiful and immersive and you can adjust immersion level to bleed through objects and the world around you.
The weakest points so far are…
- my contacts mess with the eye tracking (my lens inserts are being delivered late)
- there are some accidental ‘clicks’ with the pinch to click
- this is only partially a Vision Pro thing, but Apple’s Screen Mirroring still causes a very slight amount of blur, I presume due to their video codec