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  • Apple Vision Pro review one year later: time to exit the preview

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    In the upcoming AppleInsider Podcast, I talk to someone that uses it while holding his child. It's one of the only platforms that lets you use it easily with one hand.

    Improving life? The device in its own is a whimsical triumph. I smile when I put it on, it brought tears to my sister in law that got to relive her wedding via spatial video, I can play chess with a friend halfway across the country and feel like they are in the room with me.

    The crazy ones? The ones that break away from the status quo of computing to seek something exciting and new? Sounds like Apple Vision Pro fits perfectly into Apple's old marketing campaign.

    Apple Vision Pro is letting people navigate their electric wheelchair using head gestures and voice. It's allowing users trapped in a tiny cubical to work from a beach. It's telling stories in ways we've never been able to experience without being there in person, and I don't know about you, but I can't go feed baby elephants in Africa right now.

    So no, I utterly disagree with your assessment. 
    Yep.  It’s a magical device that is integral to my daily workflow.  I do house errands with it, travel with it, do my day to day work with the Mac Virtual Display and Moonlight on Windows.   

    It is “insanely great”, as Steve once would say, but our expectations of new products and how they fit into an ecosystem or spoon feed us content or use cases are far higher than they were in the 80’s.   We don’t have that same itch to tinker and explore.  I don’t even think the price is all that high if you consider how much an Apple II or Macintosh cost back in their day after inflation.  We collectively have a lot of “good enough” tech and other distractions that make it harder to digest a new device that asks us to alter our workflows.  

    The AVP breaks away from the status quo and is already having a major impact on the HMD space with Meta Horizon OS adopting its UX metaphors, Android XR and Samsung’s device looking a LOT like an AVP competitor, etc.  We see the recent articles about medical professionals gathering for a 300 person symposium on the AVP in healthcare.  Heck there’s a great recent thread on Reddit about a tradesman streamlining his installs of Ethernet drops with a LIDAR room scanning app and 3D object placement in the AVP.   The sky is the limit on potential, but we’ve been conditioned to be fed, rather than to explore.   That makes for a great opportunity for developers looking for innovation.




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