If he was a teenager in 1999 he’s a millennial, but guy obviously has an axe to grind with Apple.

It was a weird article to read, I’m so confused how he thought this sort of technology he’s been waiting for since his teenage years would work.

The point is not the motion sickness but the eventual solipsism, isolation and panopticon of a world where everyone will "not even see you", maybe even block you visually and auditorially, and everything you see or do i scanned by "the machine".

I still want one but i see a very lonely future if this becomes widespread, especially coupled with AI agents.

Yeah, I've never had motion sickness issues with AR/VR. As much as I have almost never been impressed by these gimmicky, glorified tech-demo devices, it's a bit annoying how the "but muh motion sickness" seems to overshadow what, frankly, are more legit criticisms.

Granted, I've yet to try the Vision Pro, so don't take what I've just said as an implication that it can be lumped into the glorified tech-demo category. In fact, next time I walk by an Apple store, I plan on trying it.

Also, there wasn't anything necessarily wrong with the Newton. It had the right idea, but was too early for its own good, to the point where the benefits didn't outweigh the bugs. Apple tried again with iPhone and iPad, and succeeded, so I don't think you can really look at the unique snapshot in time that was the Newton and draw that many parallels to the Vision Pro, which is obviously lightyears more powerful and capable than the Newton even at its worst.

What the author says towards the end is pure professional complaining:

> It isn't for interacting with the world. It isn't even for walking around your own apartment. At best, at its core, it's yet another way for us to zone out and watch ever higher and higher definition TV and movies. I've never in my adult life vegged out as much as I did during my time with the Vision Pro.

As if existing devices don't essentially fill that niche already? There really isn't anything special about the Vision Pro besides its ability to represent digital space in a different way. If you're vegging out with it, that's really a problem with you and not the tech. People veg out reading books – literal pieces of paper. If the tech seems to be controlling you, then your frame of mind is out of whack. Society normalizes the consumption mindset because it's easy and profitable. You can choose to integrate technology into your life in a way that is healthy. You really don't need any of this tech to be happy in your everyday life.

Yes, people don't have classical free will... yet at some point, that fact becomes a cop-out against encouraging others to do what's actually best for them, whether they realize it or not.