I am NOT an Apple fanboy. Ask me about Apple networking. Go ahead. (It sucks). My house has a single mode fiber optic network with a mellanox 40gbe switch at its core. I’ve been building PCs for 22 years.

I’m a photographer and videographer. I dabble in music creation and audio editing. I love video games. I’ve been using VR since the oculus development kit when we needed outside in tracking cameras and the exact brand of usb extension cable mattered. I worked in game development. I did VR development.

I’ve had a bunch of sets over the years THE most insane experience was a game called elite dangerous which is a space flight and exploration game on PC running through the Valve Index. The game itself isn’t great but it was one of those holy fuck I’m in space in the future oh my god kinda things. The hours I spent in that game just being in space flying a starship I will never forget.

I own a quest pro. I gave a go at using it for more than just very limited experiences like porn or Netflix. I tried to use it as a screen for my pc, for exercise, for gaming. If you don’t own one it has a lot of usability problems. Getting up and leaving the room can cause it to subtly forget your positioning so the room isn’t quite aligned anymore. Passthough isn’t great. It misaligns color closeup. Think of your hand in black and white and a flesh colored ghost. Now offset that ghost by a half inch to the right or left. It’s still better than the quest 2. Laying down it’s uncomfortable though. Also the controllers are worse than the quest 2.

My refrain through the years has been I love VR but it’s not ready yet.

I bought the vision pro yesterday and that refrain changed. I may have built my last computer. For those of you old enough to remember the best way I can describe this is that it feels like the difference between a good pocket pc like the Toshiba e805 and the original iPhone. That is to say they are superficially similar but the reality is that they aren’t close.

Tracking is seamless even in pitch black. I can read my phone through the external camera. Yeah I can text using the vision pro itself but what I mean is that I can sit down and read my actual phone with the headset on. It’s like looking through slightly foggy ski goggles without the tint. Tracking is unbelievably good. It doesn’t seem to forget where things are. I can pull up a window and leave the house at night with the headset on and come back later and that window will still be there. It’s comfortable in a way the quest 2 and especially the pro weren’t.

It’s usable for real work. My friend is testing his as an aid to writing as we speak because he can keep his research up on screens alllllllll around him as he types which should make his work easier and allow him to take his whole workspace with him when he travels.

For myself I’m not sure I’m ready to give up my art monitor for editing but it’s good enough that I’m going to see how close it is using pass through from a MacBook. I need to replace my old razer laptop next week to test it.

I’m convinced it needed to cost this much. They had to prove the concept could work for real and not just as a technology demonstrator. I don’t know if they could have done it for less.

This generation is expensive, this generation is short on software, and this generation just showed everyone else how it is done. I truly think this is the future of nearly all computing for end users. I don’t say that lightly. I’m going to miss building computers. it’s been such a big part of my life. I remember backpacking through the desolation wilderness with the boy scouts when I was 13 with a stack of magazines planning my first build alone because nobody I knew had the skills to help me and I did it myself I created a skill entirely mine that no teacher or parent gave me. It is mine. it’s that foundational to me. but I will gladly never do it again if I can have the future Apple just showed us.

I look forward to slr making it onto the vision pro. I’m willing to wait.

    ikey86

    That sounds terrible, how could apple mess up this so badly? Esepcially at this price point. Kind of shocked that it’s not superior to Quest 3, for that price it should be significant

      Garyindiana2 hi, yes, we are planning to make the app available on AVP, but it takes some time to get everything in place, so we will get the news out, when we have an update

        spacecase But honestly what's the use case? Can't game on it, no porn on it. Regular 2D movies surely will look better on my $2000 80" TV. My monitor's 4k panel will definitely look sharper. So what's the use case really? I'm confused there. People seem to LOVE LOVE LOVE the AVP but what nobody can tell me: what are you going to do with it? I honestly get the idea this is only about fashion/status.

            harigeharry

            PUSHED big software update for META to SEE the spatial videos without having to tweak or do anything special to make em viewable

            i think i saw an example shot on the phone with quest3...looks pretty good for what is supposed to be a small window clip...we just need to make it a tad more zoomable.

              I saw you can use your finger how you would on your phone or iPad when u have windows close up, I saw someone say it's hard to select function on videos like youtube cause the icons are to small to pinch, zoom it in and use it like a phone ☝️ finger it instead of pinching it.

              News is apple working on vision air, 1500$

              Some Quotes from hottie in video

              "Can we see whole Bodies and feel like we're sitting in a room together, can we trick our brains into thinking we're there in person with others"

              Clearly she has not seen the slr AR videos or AI AR videos

              Plug
              https://www.sexlikereal.com/tags/passthrough-ai-vr

              https://www.sexlikereal.com/tags/full-body-passthrough-vr?sort=most_recent

              Lol, some of these reviewers make me lol, they say "in the future will be able to see real people in front of us" they all giddy about it, and I'm just there thinking bro I literally have sexy beautiful hotties sitting on my lap, strippers in my living room right now, the future is here already. 👍🤯

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              harigeharry

              I’m using my iPhone to take a 3d map of the house I just bought and the Vision Pro to walk through the floorplan. Watching immersive videos is incredible. I’m typing this on my Mac right now, I can use the Vision to create a massive display for my laptop and use the keyboard/trackpad to seamlessly interact with both the Mac and the Vision apps.

              I think it largely fits into the same pattern as other Apple devices - sure they have some features no one else has, but that’s not their biggest selling point or why people love them. It’s that almost all of the features they have are rock solid and work better than anything else. I’d rather have it do 20 things really really well than half ass 100 things.

              I think people saying asking about the use cases must not be old enough to remember when iPad was released (or just don’t pay attention to tech). In it’s first year, iPad didn’t have 1/10 of the functionality the Vision has right now (< 1 month since release). The Vision is already incredibly capable IMO when you consider it’s a brand new OS with an entirely different interaction paradigm. And they nailed it, it’s rock solid. In 2-3 years it’s going to be another flourishing ecosystem. In 5-10 years it’s going to surpass the iPad by far. It likely won’t ever beat the iPhone but I wouldn’t be surprised if it grows to 50+ million devices a year once the price gets down to ~$1000.

              Facetime is pretty incredible on this thing too, and you can share your view to demo it for others. It’s super fun.

              SLR works with vision currently, but the videos are super washed out looking. The displays on Vision Pro have great colors so it’s really obvious and distracting. Hopefully they upgrade their camera equipment because both the color range and resolution need big improvements if they’re going to take advantage of what this headset is capable of.

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                doublevr

                These feel more immersive than the non AVP filmed videos. Even when watching these on the Quest 3 there is a noticable increased sense of realism. Apple are really onto something. Please keep me coming.

                  I think I remember reading about how the AVP only shows what you are looking at in maximum quality and everything else in the 'spatial field' in lower resolution?

                  Is that true or did I hear things wrong - If so, is it the case with everything the AVP displays or only certain games/apps?