![]() They aim to ship them with varying sizes and shapes to fit different faces. Apple says it is still working on which light seal (the cloth shroud) options to ship with it when it releases officially, but the default one was comfortable for me. The optics are better, the headband is comfortable and quickly adjustable and there is a top strap for weight relief. The hardware is good - very good - with 24 million pixels across the two panels, orders of magnitude more than any headsets most consumers have come into contact with. I don’t know whether it will be the “next computing mode,” but you can see the conviction behind each of the choices made here. Every bit of this thing shows Apple-level ambition. Namely, 5,000 patents filed over the past few years and an enormous base of talent and capital to work with. I’ve also been moved by first-person experiences by Sundance filmmakers highlighting the human (or animal) condition.īut none of them had the advantages that Apple brings to the table with Apple Vision Pro. There are some genuine social, narrative or gaming successes like Gorilla Tag, VRChat or Cosmonius. I’ve been awed and re-awed as developers of the hardware and software of those devices and their marquee apps have continued to chew away at the “conundrum of the killer app” - trying to find something that would get real purchase with the broader public. I’ve tried all of the experiences and stabs at making fetch happen when it comes to XR. I will need a lot more time with the device than a guided demo.īut, I’ve used essentially every major VR headset and AR device since 2013’s Oculus DK1 right up through the latest generations of Quest and Vive headsets. To be super clear, I’m not saying it delivers on all promises, is a genuinely new paradigm in computing or any other high-powered claim that Apple hopes to deliver on once it ships. ![]() 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. ![]()
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