Apple’s first new device in nearly a decade is an expensive work-in-progress.
Apple’s new Vision Pro XR headset was introduced at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino today, after ten years of development, instantly making their new “spatial computing” headset the hottest topic in tech. The $3,499 Apple Vision Pro does VR and AR. Users can dial how much of each they want. We’ll know a lot more tomorrow as reviewers who tried it this aftertoon weigh in, but here’s my hot take on what we saw today.
The list of features is impressive. The gesture control is exquisitely thought out. I was surprised and delighted by this, and the effect Apple calls Eyesight, which allows the user’s eyes to be seen by people outside of the headset. The 6K display is something only seen on high end military-industrial design headsets. It’s better than human-eye vision. At first you better be sitting down, because it can make you fall over. This, too, is something we’ve not seen in a consumer device before.
The 3D camera capture and playback is compelling. The new Snap Specs, which have no street date, also do this and it works great. The connection to the Apple ecosystem, and the collaboration features, all seem very promising.
