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You're right and I think it would make sense to have a feature that allows you to do a 3d recording.

If I could watch my daughter's first step in full 3d, I would be happy to pay the $3k and more.

I know you can do it right now with insta360 or whatever but I think there is a bit of a learning curve and it just isn't it that seamless.

Being able to record directly from the headset and play it back exactly how you saw it would make things much simpler and WYSIWYG and may be the reason for mass adoption

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If I could watch my daughter's first step in full 3d, I would be happy to pay the $3k and more.

Don't you want to experience the authentic event rather than peering through a camera so that you can relive it later in 3D?

I'm always flabbergasted that people watch concerts through a camera, rather than just enjoying the experience. The facsimile is often poor compared to the experience itself. Also, reliving the same experience over and over can devalue it. Our memory is very good at making rose-tinted representations of past experiences.

I do understand the grandparent's travel example much better, especially for people who can't easily travel due to disabilities, etc.

> I'm always flabbergasted that people watch concerts through a camera, rather than just enjoying the experience.

And can easily substitute concerts for all types of things here. Travel experiences, museums, art, the mona lisa room where I am pretty sure I was the only one looking-at/facing the actual painting...etc. For many, getting IG likes or emoji comments is more gratifying than the actual experience. I don't get it either.

You can already record in 3D both from the headset, from iPhone 15 Pro and higher and with Canon’s new upcoming lense:

https://www.usa.canon.com/newsroom/2024/20240610-lens

It’s uncanny to record something with the Vision Pro and then play it back while you’re sitting in the same location…feels like a glitch in the matrix.

It’s not upcoming. I just bought it last night.

You can do that. There are only two buttons on the device and one of them is “record this experience as a memory in the iCloud photos app exactly as how I experienced it”.

Since the cameras are small the ISO is at cell phone level, not great indoors.

So I just spent $5800 on the Canon R5 C + Stereo VR Lens kit, to record my baby boy’s moments in 8K for future VisonPro (2,3,4…) devices.

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