My buddy got one for free. The continual feedback is “this is cool but not worth anything close to $3500”. Unless Apple is willing to significantly reduce their normal margin profile this just isn’t ever going to see mass adoption.
When VR gets more comfortable to wear, it will represent a more dramatic shift than moving from terminals to graphical user interfaces.
For now, the Vision Pro very accurately tracks your eyes, but waits for an explicit finger gesture to act. Future interfaces with deep learning will take the form of very sophisticated visual autocomplete, guided by observations of our reactions that would destroy us at poker.
The Vision Pro is the camel's nose under the tent.
We’re backsliding from 100% reliable buttons to slightly finicky touch inputs to inscrutable AI-backed gesture detectors. This goes against decades of HI research.