CNN Business’ Samantha Murphy Kelly experienced Apple’s Vision Pro hands on demo this week and feels she’s “seen the future.”
Samantha Murphy Kelly for CNN Business:
It’s rare to find a new technology that feels groundbreaking. But last night, while sitting on a couch in a private demo room at Apple’s campus wearing its newly announced Vision Pro mixed reality headset, it felt like I’d seen the future…
In the demo, which lasted 30 minutes, a virtual butterfly landed on my finger; a dinosaur with detailed scales tried to bite me; and I stood inches away from Alicia Keys’ piano as she serenaded me in a recording studio. When a small bear cub swam by me on a quiet lake during another immersive video, it felt so real that it reminded me of an experience with a loved one who recently passed away. I couldn’t wipe the tears inside my headset.
But it’s clearly a work in progress. The apps and experiences remain limited; users must stay tethered to a battery pack the size of an iPhone with just two hours of battery life…
MacDailyNews Note: This is incorrect. When connected to power, the Vision Pro will run all day just like a desktop computer. It will run for approximately 2 hours per battery pack.
The headset itself felt light enough in the beginning, but even with Apple’s considerable design chops, I never shook the idea that there was a computer on my face. Fortunately, unlike other computing products, the headset did remain cool on my face throughout the experience, thanks largely to a quiet fan and airflow running through the system…
Almost every new Apple product, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch, promises to use screens of varying sizes to change how we live, work and interact with the world. The Vision Pro has the potential to do all of that in an even more striking way.
MacDailyNews Take: Reminds us of the first Mac OS X t-shirts we got back in the way:
Please help support MacDailyNews. Click or tap here to support our independent tech blog. Thank you!
Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by using this link to shop at Amazon.
I’m always fascinated by how people implement “new technology” into their daily lives. One time a guy passed me on an electric “Onewheel,” with a cigarette in one hand, a donut in another hand, and somehow he was holding an iPhone on a Facetime call. If he had wiped out, I’m not sure what would be worse–the road burns, the cigarette burns, or the jelly donut stains . . . . But I wonder how a guy like that would implement Apple Vision Pro into his daily routine.
Those were exciting times when Apple and Steve announced OS X. It sure isn’t the same with that sissy woketard running the show.
Only four downvotes so far. C’mon, you Pride Pansies can do better than that.
ok mr. peabrain. dickwads like you people worry about other’s private lives, intelligent people evaluate what good work others do. grow the f up.
The problem with your kind is that you don’t keep your private lives private, and you want OUR lives to be the same as yours. So don’t lecture me on being intelligent Nancy.
the problem with you is you’re the hypocrite. you claim to suppress constitutional freedoms but you just can’t suppress your xenophobia. you ban books, gerrymander voting districts, and tell women what healthcare they’re allowed to access. Fuck You.
I’ve had this in my head all week.
https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/the-future/213038820?i=213038821&itsct=music_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&app=music