Apple Vision Pro

[...] Definitely the next version needs to be smaller and less expensive and more comfortable, but the version 1 of almost any product has a lot of room to improve. [...]

[...] As a health care provider I use it for my electric charting. [...] Also this new all vision update is gonna be nuts with quality of life

[...] I use it every day and ended up getting rid of my iPad bc it was just collecting dust after a couple of months. I agree with about everything in your excellent video, including not really recommending it at this price for most people. It is CRAZY expensive but it is an awesome peek at the future. [...] The 3D photos are insanely cool and fun to go thru old photos of my son and family and pop them out in 3D! [...]

A few things: - The Zynq MPSoc is the Ultrascale Zynq (released 4 years later), not the plain Zynq. A “good” (7020) plain Zynq board with decent I/O ports costs about £100, the very cheapest Ultrascale boards are twice that with far less expansion ports - to get similar I/O you’ll be up in the 3-4x price bracket at least. [...] I wrote the OS for the Apple Vision Pro, quite some time before LLM’s existed, when it was a prototype on my desk, consisting of a Zynq being the boot-up device and architecture controller for a bunch of the fastest and largest FPGAs on the planet interconnected with optical fibre. [...]

[...] It still wows me every time I use it. It is still astonishing tech even a year later. [...] Audio is amazing too. [...] Comfortable enough; I can use it for about 3-4 hours at a time. [...]

I love my vision pro and in fact, have had to work hard to not use it every single day! [...] I also think apple should consider some controllers to make the vision pro more game friendly. [...] We've been waiting far too long for this and I would agree that without it, it makes working on the vision pro counter intuitive. For entertainment, however, there is nothing better on the market than Apple Vision Pro.

I'm a software developer and an early adopter of the tech. I've had this for six months now. [...] Also use it for external display for my mac and love the experience as the mouse/trackpad can be used inside the AVP seeemlessly. [...]

I use the Apple Vision Pro as my main display, programming for 8+ hours per day. Zero issues as long as you're willing to use larger screens! The PPD on this looks very similar, possibly a bit better due to its lower FOV.

[...] Even Apple's Vision Pro is only half-Retina, the same jaggedy text a my 1998 G3 PowerBook. [...] And taking off Vision Pro and looking at your iPhone or MBP screen makes you want to smash Vision Pro against the wall. The displays absolutely suck -- and Frame's are even worse. [...]

For what it's worth, I use the Apple Vision Pro as my primary display for an average of 8+ hours a day without any issues. I have years of experience with previous headsets, but my wife has no issues with the AVP's weight either, despite having no prior experience.

[...] Concerning productivity: I love how it projects the content of my very portable macbook air on an ultrawide screen, while i still see its keyboard in good enough quality and wallpaper the hotel room with even more vision/ipad apps. Again, it substitutes your many screens at home. [...]

I use mine every other day when I want to detach from my phone and focus on media. [...] I have never believed the Vision Pro to ever be consumer. My thoughts were that they threw all the tech they could to kick start it and they will remove and lower the price for the masses. For example, we don't need our eyes showing on the front, that screen could simply be an LED that alerts people that you can see them.

For me getting the Annapro has made all the difference to comfort. [...] The wide Mac virtual display also makes using the Vision Pro special for productivity and worthwhile for certain work referencing multiple documents. For video watching the Vision Pro is second to none. I watch far more films since owning the Vision Pro and look forward to the immersive experience - it is like have your own movie theatre. I think the Vision Pro enhances your life if you can afford and justify. [...] All in all, like the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro is something nice to have, but not essential to work or life. [...]

I'm very surprised that you didn't find Spatial Video and Photos appealing given that you have a two-year old son. This has been the greatest value for me. [...] The new 2D to 3D photo conversion feature in visionOS 2 is really good! The quality of the conversions are generally excellent and higher definition than what you can capture on the Vision Pro itself. It is a really special experience to view old photos of yourself and your family and your travels in 3D. The display makes all the difference (no, you can't get the same experience on the Quest 3). I'm hoping that Apple extends the 2D to 3D conversion to panoramic photos, which even in 2D are a great, immersive experience that is not talked about much.

[...] I use mine to have a show I want to watch, which might not be age-appropriate for the kid, right in the same room, without freaking the kid out. I use mine with the Apple TV to let the twins see a game or other content that they couldn’t otherwise see. [...] I use it to cook their or our meals despite going from room to room to check on the kids or cook or do laundry or… I use it to record some of my moments with them, usually chasing them around and getting first-person perspective on walking around holding this hands, playing games (carefully), or capturing some moment of their activity that they might stop if they saw me pick my phone or camera up. [...]

[...] It’s just going to get better with future software updates. I was most worried about them coming out with a v2 within 2 years but it sounds like they’ll be coming out with a cheaper version instead with LCD displays. [...] I haven’t used my Quest 3 (or 2) since I got the AVP.

Very one says this is an expensive device but compared to PCVR headsets with the same displays it’s great value. [...] Other Pc headsets with similar displays are going to be closer to 10k. [...] Tech journalists need to change the story about price and compare it to comparable devices. I probably have over £3000 of monitors on the desk and the Vision Pro is incredibly close to removing the need for them(then it’s break even cost wise) but on the road and working remote it’s incredible and worth very penny. [...]

I own both devices. Zuck is not wrong-the quest 3 is a better product at a fraction of the price. The Vision Pro is mind-bogglingly limited. [...] AVP is fine for a floating screen but multitasking isn’t supported and even though it does have lower latency than quest it only has about one or two use cases and under 5 usable applications. [...]

Poor sales have reportedly forced Apple to cut production of the Vision Pro headset that it had hoped would herald a new era in “spatial computing”. The tech company also reduced marketing for Vision Pro by more than 95% last year, according to the market intelligence group Sensor Tower in figures first reported by the Financial Times. Apple continues to sell iPhones, iPads and laptops in the millions each quarter, but analysts say sales of Vision Pro headsets, which cost at least £3,199 ($3,499) each, have been sluggish. [...]

[...] Many glasses are really tough to get properly placed; may I request you not give up on the pads w/metal adjusters that you have in the product photos? [...] Second, how tough is this signal processing? [...] I'm reminded of the Apple Vision Pro radar to see if your fingers are clicking. [...] Fourth, I think a cool voice change demo would be rad -- not sure what latency is like, but if you could get it end to end under like 250ms you could probably have someone exaggerate the mouth movements and pipe out audio of them talking like someone else. [...]

[...] If VR/ar devices like the Apple Vision Pro were to go mainstream, I can’t imagine myself learning how to use it effectively as a daily driver device to get work done. [...] I can see why someone who never used email until their fifties would never get fully comfortable with it.

[...] Couldn't imagine doing anything besides using it as large private display for 2D games. [...] I feel like it's most direct competition would be as a cheaper Apple Vision. [...] So, compare them to either XREALs plugged into a laptop/phone, or Apple Vision Pro I guess.

[...] With all due respect, my concerns are not nonsensical but borne of my daily use with Apple Vision Pro and my awareness of the limitations of dwell control. [...] I’m a huge AX fan and work directly in the domain space, but something about that video in particular coupled with my near-daily use of Apple Vision Pro doesn’t feel right.

I will give it a spin on my Apple Vision Pro. Have been trying ttyd, which could really be great as is it browser based and hence I can have as many windows as I want, but a safari bug on iOS/ipados/visionos is a showstopper: specifically, safari sends keycode 13 events (enter key) when pressing ctrl-c on a hardware keyboard. [...]

[...] Like it has M2 so anything that runs on the Mac with M one should be ported over, I would love to take around a portable keyboard and mouse and just play games like World of Warcraft or League of Legends on here. [...] Think of all the gamers out there with Windows PCs that are even way more expensive. [...] There is also a lot of features that should be on this device like iPhone remote control , the ability to look at your iPhone or your Apple Watch and unlock your headset, and more- like why can’t I take control of my iPad like I do my Mac? [...]

I love using my Vision Pro but I don’t understand why you have to have a Mac 🖥️ to use the big display. [...]

[...] the major AVP dislike for me is the pop up keyboard. I use virtual display a lot too and so physical keyboard is available but when I am not the pop up keyboard is still terrible. [...] is pricey...was going to get a used car but got the AVP instead:). [...]

Its cool, I got to try it out when it launched, but I just thought it was too expensive even for the experience. [...] For this to go mainstream though, the price range needs to be $1699 with everything included. [...] Also, Mac Display Mode needs to be dropped in favor of a built in Mac Mode that you launch like an app, no need to own or be tethered to a physical Mac. [...]

[...] Google Home basically nails it but has a lot of edge case shortcomings in that last 20%. [...] I would love an iPad that magnetically attached over the top of this thing and immediately gave me the same multi-user OS interaction of HomeView and the bigger screen of the iPad. [...] Seems like a few magnets and a screen-sharing function away. But also, why in the God's hell does this thing not have wireless charging and a battery? [...] A) has kitchen B) has kitchen island C) has kitchen island with power D) has kitchen island with concealed power amenable to random chargers. [...] Looking forward to version 3, shortly after Apple Vision Pro version 2.

Review: After a year of use, it remains clear that the Apple Vision Pro benefits from the power of M5, even if not much else changed. Apple's work is far from over.

[...] Use Annapro A2, comfort 0 issues. [...]

I’ve had mine six months, and love it! It’s such a new device that you really can’t form an opinion about it until you’ve tried it for at least a month.

[...] Last year, my wife and I tried Apple Vision Pro. [...]

The best eye tracking I had was the first 6 weeks I owned it last February 🤷🏻‍♂️ flawless back then

I had mine since launch and I still can’t get it to be comfortable for very long. [...] It’s probably realistically worth about $2000. The resale value shows you what it’s truly worth

[...] In his thesis, Davison describes using it to "structurally recreate, simulate and step inside" famous Goodsell illustrations -- the cytoskeleton demo is a striking example of a painting becoming a world you can enter and set in motion: I first called LifeBrush "Emacs for Cytoplasm" in a Boids thread and asked Davison whether the molecular motion was slowed down. He replied that medium-sized proteins move around 5 m/s, and that LifeBrush deliberately slows and smooths Brownian motion for illustration. [...] Davison’s work has since grown into CellWalk, a guided, interactive tour through a bacterial cell, from the whole cell down to its atoms, for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. [...]

[...] Screen size is never something that bothered me. And I know people who watched more stuff on their laptop screen with terrible color accuracy. [...] It's just not worth it. Makes me wonder how often people use it for "watching content on a gigantic screen at home", or it's just mostly theoretical in VR headset marketing material. VR desktop: that's supposedly the "killer application" of Apple Vision Pro back in 2005 (and only usable on high resolution headsets like those). [...]

[...] I really like my apple vision pro. It's definitely too heavy but for a V1 product it has a lot of promise. [...]

I used to have an Apple Vision Pro; it was a genuinely great piece of tech. IMO if Apple went somewhere like wearable glasses with it, it'd be a hit.

Apple Vision Pro… I feel like this is a device with massive productivity potential (having a ton of massive screens anywhere I want), but none of them happened. The price tag was of course insane, but I also feel like the use cases, apps, integrations etc just didn’t materialize.

My Apple Vision Pro has all that, and it’s perfect for posture when using a MacBook.

How many American Gothic AI fake photos do you think he'll make. Sounds like a novelty experience to me. I also loved my first day in Apple's Vision Pro. [...]

Just got the M5 Vision Pro for the ultimate portable laptop screen. Well worth the $$ … bonus is spacial pics/videos and 3D movies are next level. Thank You Apple , this changed the game for me never having to deal with eyes burning out of my head from staring at a laptop screen ever again !! Ps: I did purchase a 3rd party headstrap add on so I could wear it all day comfortably.

I don't understand why mac virtual display is so hyped. I have tried very hard to use my Vision Pro as external display but to my disappointment the comfort and quality is nothing close to an external monitor. The display isn't sharp enough for me.

The Vision Pro is amazing, the future of computing for sure. With VOS2 I use it every day. It is an entertainment and productivity marvel, way ahead of Meta.

I feel like I am the only one who does not have comfort issues with the solo loop it’s honestly so nice to me and not that heavy after 2 months

You can use a track pad for small things. I run Davinci Resolve for iPad with it.

Great vid. Agree with all these points. Still loving my AVP. I feel lucky to have one. Such a joy to use.

Steve would’ve marketed the 💩 out of this. Somewhat OT: I think people have paid close to this amount of money for bigger screen TV’s. And things the best “tv” I’ve ever owned.

[...] I’ve got the Annapro V2 and I use it without the light seal.