Hey Siri, open Apple Music. Play the Godzilla Minus One album. Music on, I open my MacBook and connect to the Vision Pro and float into work as the movie I was watching flips into the background.
I used to think of the Apple Vision Pro as a device of the future; now, it’s just a thing that’s part of my life. Demystified after using it for a month, a new device normalized in my home.
After years of experience with AR and VR, I can see where an advanced device like the Vision Pro can evolve, what it can be. But those aren’t all there yet when I’m using the Vison Pro right now as an everyday device. I’m using it in ways that feel very clear, delineated and limited. Even more interestingly, its uses don’t really overlap much with the Meta Quest 3.
For all my dreams of a mixed reality future where magic 3D things dance around in my home and create impossible experiences, the Vision Pro is more about being a fantastic wearable display right now, a way to relive movies, and my own photo library and a work-oriented, Apple-connected iOS computer. That’s what I thought when I reviewed it, and it remains true now. The Vision Pro is a tool, not necessarily always a magic machine. Still, I use it nearly every day, and there are still moments where the device amazes me with its bleeding-edge features. But I use the Quest 3 nearly every day too…for things I love just as much but can’t be done with Apple’s headset.
The normal feel of the headset and its apps and user interface — at times, nearly boring — could be by design. I think Apple’s also trying at times to normalize the experience of a mixed reality face-worn headset, not make it futuristic. Then again, I’ve also been living in headsets for a long, long time, and I’m still trying to figure out some of the Vision Pro’s mysteries.
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