Anyone Tried Apple Vision Pro?

Yes. I also own a Meta Quest Pro and abandoned it to leave it collecting dust soon after getting it.

The Vision Pro wildly exceeded my expectations.

I would say that it feels very good and feels like a real consumer product, not just a toy. Apple having full vertical integration and great software really helped here.

I put it on upon receiving it and then didn’t take it off until the evening, charging it whilst using it along the way. It didn’t strain my neck or feel heavy. I should note that I switched to the Dual Loop band after the first hour: the Solo Loop put some stress on my face. I should caveat that I didn’t find AirPods Max to be super heavy, which others do.

It gets a lot of subtle things right, it feels intuitive to use, the image quality is incredibly good and I can do everything using the pass through cameras, including reading very small text. Apps are crisp and Mac mirroring is very good.

Using it in parallel with a Mac is great, because it absorbs the screen and also the keyboard and mouse, making it very easy to navigate and use on the couch or at a desk.

The virtual environments are beautiful and immersive and you can adjust immersion level to bleed through objects and the world around you.

The weakest points so far are…

- my contacts mess with the eye tracking (my lens inserts are being delivered late)

- there are some accidental ‘clicks’ with the pinch to click

- this is only partially a Vision Pro thing, but Apple’s Screen Mirroring still causes a very slight amount of blur, I presume due to their video codec

It is very good. The gesture recognition, the eye tracking, video quality etc are great. The immersive video demo is outstanding, the immersive env are great, the spatial videos and photos (captured from the device) look amazing, although at this stage of the device you probably wouldn't have it on all the time at memorable moments to capture video.

It is heavy. Not 'my head hurts' heavy, but 'fatigue sets in after a while of wearing heavy'. Untethered battery life isn't amazing, but I doubt this is something you would take too far from your home / office setup (at least in its current form). There is some slight latency in the pass through camera feed but its not a dealbreaker.

It needs to get lighter, but I think the future will move in this direction. I don't think 'drop the phone' moment is right around the corner (although we're getting there), but I could be reaching for a vision pro, mouse, and keyboard for work in a not too distant future.

It's great. It is the future, it just needs to be lighter. It's actually relatively small, but it's heavy. Once it's as heavy as actual ski googles and has all day battery I'll drop the phone.

If needing to be tethered, Apple Vision Pro should’ve put more of the compute in the battery pack.

Sure there are latency concerns, but Goggles should be “lite”, more “heavy” compute with the battery pack.

Also seems redundant walking around with iPhone and Vision Pro battery pack. Future Vision Pros should be powered by iPhone Pro or MacBook Pro, with limited R1 chipset embedded in Goggles

Yes! Go demo it! It is indeed the future of computing.

Can it run VScode or IntelliJ yet?