Every single component of the Apple Vision pro spatial computer required an unprecedented level of innovation in design, engineering, and manufacturing.
Vision Pro signifies a huge leap, even by Apple’s own standards. A first of its kind, this wearable spatial computer blends the digital with the physical in a way that is frankly unbelievable. Working within the existing framework of its familiar apps and established user interface, Apple turns your surroundings into a three-dimensional navigational display, while making it intuitive to respond to and natural to control. The new VisionOS makes digital content look present in the physical world. Every detail of the UX design has been specially created to close the gap between the two realms; app icons mimic Apple’s glass material in the virtual realm, while the display screen subtly casts shadows over furniture or other aspects of the space when the natural light changes. Simply put, it heralds a whole new platform for experiencing technology.
With no set deadline or pressure to be brought to the market, Apple Vision Pro has been in the works for decades. On a recent visit to Apple Park, Alan Dye, Apple’s Vice President of Human Interface Design, and Richard Howarth, Vice President of Industrial Design, sat down together to explain how hardware and software came together in an unprecedented way to make an idea a reality.
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The complaining that the AVP is too bulky is really asinine when you realize how MUCH this thing has been slimmed down from its original form. The Vanity Fair article linked today talks about how this was originally a gigantic, Frankenstein-like machine that you didn’t even really wear, more like you put your head into it. It’s astounding that they’ve turned it into a mobile computing device now available to consumers.
While ~$5k (1TB, AppleCare, case, tax) isn’t chump change, it’s a radically good deal for the most sophisticated product Apple has ever made which cost billions of dollars to develop over the better part of a decade. The XDR Pro Display STARTS at $4999 for crying out loud, and it’s not even a computer!
Agree that the price is an overblown issue. If you want it, you want it. There is a “killer app” for this tech, and once we all figure out what that is, people will snatch this up.
Want proof? Back in the early 1980s, as a freelance writer, I paid about $2,000 for an CP/M computer system and dot-matrix printer. It was a work expense, and I needed it. Based on an online inflation calculator, the equivalent cost today would be roughly $6,300. By contrast, $3,500 seems cheap. And the next version will be even cheaper (or smaller, or both).
While paring down is admirable, perhaps Apple should have challenged their engineers from the start with the size and weight limits to fit everything in. I hear the size of the original walkman was a result of Sony’s president taking a block of wood and telling the engineers to build a cassette player no larger than that block.
Apple just continues unabated to keep announcing stuff unabated that does not appeal to anyone that live outside of Reddit/their parent’s basement/whomever else pays their bills and buys them stuff. What in the actual eff has happened to this company? iMac? iPhone? iPad? Pfft. Jonny Ive was not infallible, but modern Apple is incomprehensible, as in gibberish, not, ‘you just don’t get it’. Granted, that is a modern Silicon Valley trend. Is everyone there literally on drugs? I could not give a toss about this product or anything that follows in its wake. I’d think shareholders would be a little more alert, I guess, because apparently, Cook is all in. Thank for the new emoji, Tim.
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What are you, 80? Literally the dumbest thing I’ve read today. Fortunately, technology progresses even when people like you don’t. For all your complaints about Apple‘s current ‚vision‘, I bet you own at least one of the products you just ragged on. 🤣
The development of AVP reminds me of the progression of the brain-recording tech in the 1983 movie “Brainstorm,” directed by Douglas Trumbull, one of my all-time favorite films. What starts out as a room filled with equipment gets progressively slimmer and smaller until it’s little more than a headband (it’s actually looks a bit like the visor Geordi Laforge wears in Star Trek:TNG, except worn on the back on the head instead of over the eyes.