{"id":19192,"date":"2023-06-07T00:19:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/apple-wants-its-vision-pro-to-mark-a-computing-revolution-early-testers-say-its-still-just-a-fancy-headset\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T00:19:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:19:30","slug":"apple-wants-its-vision-pro-to-mark-a-computing-revolution-early-testers-say-its-still-just-a-fancy-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=19192","title":{"rendered":"Apple wants its Vision Pro to mark a computing revolution. Early testers say it\u2019s still just a fancy headset."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps in the not-so-distant future, we\u2019ll all wrap up our days of immersive work meetings and 3-D movies and turn our Vision Pro headsets toward web browsing, musing at how early reviewers failed to appreciate how groundbreaking Apple Inc.\u2019s new headset would become. <\/p>\n

Or, perhaps, we\u2019ll be sitting around with our iPhones, wondering how those reviewers thought Apple
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\n could get any traction at all for a pair of high-tech goggles costing $3,499.<\/p>\n

See more: Apple\u2019s Vision Pro is \u2018frightening\u2019 in the best way\u2014but many questions remain<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the weeks leading up to Apple\u2019s Vision Pro reveal, many analysts took the opportunity to point out how many of the company\u2019s current blockbuster products, like the Apple Watch and even the iPhone, met doubts upon their initial debuts. Of course, some more minor products, like the HomePod speaker, arrived pricey and late to the game, and they never caught on.<\/p>\n

Apple enthusiasts will have to wait until early next year to get their hands on the Vision Pro and see the technology for themselves. But some members of the press got to test the device briefly after Monday\u2019s launch, and they left generally impressed with Apple\u2019s capabilities though still questioning how the device would really come to be used.<\/p>\n

Nilay Patel of The Verge called his experience testing Vision Pro \u201cthe best handset demo ever.\u201d He praised the \u201cabsolutely bonkers\u201d resolution, with a 4K display for each eye and the ease of Apple\u2019s hand-tracking capabilities, which allow people to execute commands. <\/p>\n

\u201cApple has clearly solved a bunch of big hardware interaction problems with VR headsets, mostly by out-engineering and out-spending everyone else that\u2019s tried,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut it has emphatically not really answered the question of what these things are really\u00a0for<\/em>\u00a0yet: the main interface is very much a grid of icons, and most of the demos were basically projections of giant screens with very familiar apps on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read: Is Apple\u2019s Vision Pro VR headset worth $3,499? Read this before shelling out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Vision Pro struck Patel as a fancy virtual-reality headset, not a wholly new type of computing, as is Apple\u2019s portrayal. <\/p>\n

The device \u201cfeels, and behaves like a VR headset,\u201d he noted. \u201cIf you\u2019ve used a Meta Quest, just imagine the best possible Meta Quest running something very much like iPadOS, and you\u2019ll get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Engadget\u2019s Devindra Hardawar agreed that Vision Pro is \u201cstill just a VR headset, with many of the issues endemic to the entire category.\u201d <\/p>\n

While he was impressed with 3-D viewing capabilities, he commented on some social aspects of the device. For one, he liked a 3-D clip of a child blowing out birthday candles but noted that the parent would have had to have been wearing the goggles to shoot the footage, thus missing out on fully experiencing the moment in real-life. <\/p>\n

Additionally, the experience felt isolating to him, and the $3,499 cost of a Vision Pro could prevent people from enjoying immersive perks with others. <\/p>\n

\u201cMore than one Apple representative suggested that problem could eventually be solved by buying multiple headsets,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI laughed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew Panzarino of TechCrunch commented that the Vision Pro marked a \u201cgenuine leapfrog in capability and execution of XR \u2014 or mixed reality.\u201d He thought the device showed Apple\u2019s advantages in hardware and brought improvements related to issues with latency\u2014or lag time\u2014relative to devices currently on the market.<\/p>\n

Users control the Vision Pro with their hands, eyes and voice, a key feature that separates the device from the pack, according to Panzarino. \u201cMany other hand-tracking interfaces force you to keep your hands up in front of you, which is tiring,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Panzarino said he was \u201chesitant to make any broad claims about whether Apple Vision Pro is going to fulfill Apple\u2019s claims about the onset of spatial computing,\u201d given that the device isn\u2019t ready yet and he didn\u2019t get to use it for too long. \u201cIt is, however, really, really well done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opinion:\u00a0Vision Pro could be Apple\u2019s biggest hit since iPhone, but that won\u2019t be known for years<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal commented that the Vision Pro is \u201cnot for everyone\u201d and, in fact, is \u201cnot even for most people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her view, \u201cthere are really just two compelling use cases for this thing right now.\u201d One is workplace productivity, with Stern highlighting her experience working on a presentation collaboratively with the Vision Pro and the idea that we could replace multiple monitors with apps scattered across the headset\u2019s display. <\/p>\n

Plus, she had been \u201cskeptical\u201d of hype around 3-D viewing \u201cafter decades of 3-D TV promises,\u201d but said she was \u201csurprised by how into the 3-D clip of \u2018Avatar: The Way of Water\u2019 I got.\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, she still felt a bit nauseous and sensed the weight of the device on her nose, areas Apple expects to improve before the actual launch.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss: Will the new Apple headset provide a lifeline for Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s metaverse \u2014 or kill it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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