After a roughly 30 minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test I came away convinced that Apple has delivered nothing less than a genuine leapfrog in capability and execution of XR — or mixed reality with its new Apple Vision Pro.  To be super clear, I’m not saying […]

Early impressions sound like Apple may have actually pulled this off. Here’s what The Verge had to say:

Was all this made better by the wildly superior Vision Pro hardware? Without question. But was it made more compelling? I don’t know, and I’m not sure I can know with just a short time wearing the headset. I do know that wearing this thing felt oddly lonely. How do you watch a movie with other people in a Vision Pro? What if you want to collaborate with people in the room with you and people on FaceTime? What does it mean that Apple wants you to wear a headset at your child’s birthday party? There are just more questions than answers here, and some of those questions get at the very nature of what it means for our lives to be literally mediated by screens.

I definitely agree with that. I’d like to try this but I don’t know if I’d ever want one.

  • @gzrrt@feddit.de
    11•1 year ago

    The tech and engineering that went into this looks really impressive. That said, as a ‘vision’ of the future it’s 100% repugnant IMO.

    At least, what I want is tech that will improve over the status quo while also getting rid of as much screen time as possible, and/or replace many existing screens (e.g. for smartphones) with less intrusive alternatives like e-ink (once we can get refresh rates higher). Can’t say I’m at all interested in handing control of my consciousness over to a megacorp.