If you are already familiar with Virtual Reality (VR) technology, where humans interact with an artificial immersive 3D environment, you already know that it is the future of tech.
For years now, Apple has been marred with complaints that iPhones and the Mac are being launched with fewer and fewer new features. The latest phone by Apple, the iPhone 15, was launched with a few novel features, notably the aluminum lining, new side button functions, and a Type-C charger.
The Vision Pro is Apple’s latest futuristic, thoughtful product.
Until this month, VR headsets were already making a fuss, particularly in the gaming world, especially the Meta Quest 1, Meta Quest 2, and Meta Quest Pro. Apple recently joined the space with the first ever Apple VR headset, the Vision Pro, and took the VR experience to a different level.
Futuristic immersive user-experience
From thousands of reviews by users online, the common view is that Vision Pro is amazingly immersive and revolutionizes both mobile computing and entertainment.
You put it on your head in a way that blocks out your vision entirely, and then it shows you a 3D video feed of the world around you passed through from the cameras on the front, as though you can see right through the device. But it can also put you in virtual reality, at various levels of immersion: you can spend some time working entirely on the Moon or in your kitchen with a bunch of windows floating around.
The cover glass on the front hides a huge array of cameras and sensors. There’s a pair of high-resolution front cameras for the video passthrough, cameras that face down and to the sides to track your hands, a lidar scanner and True Depth cameras for spatial tracking, and infrared floodlights so everything can work in low light.
Underneath all that, there is an M2 processor Apple’s new R1 spatial coprocessor, and a pair of fans to move the heat from the device.
If you have glasses, you can click on custom Zeiss lens inserts. You can send in your prescription beforehand, and your order will come with a detachable lens
The Vision Pro’s speakers are housed in the arms on the side, and they are said to be good and loud and do a convincing job of rendering spatial audio.
Apple doesn’t want anyone to think of the Vision Pro as a VR headset so it has coined a new selling term “Spatial Computing”.
According to one of the top tech viewers on the internet, Marques Brownlee, known as MKBHD, the top, never-seen-before features on the Vision Pro are: immersion, placement in space, eye-tracking and hand control, pass-through, ecosystem, and spatial audio.
Many reviewers have complained that the price of the device is high and disproportionate to the value. The Vision Pro on the market now comes at $3,900.
There are also complaints that the device is too heavy, with more weight concentrated on the front, making it uncomfortable to wear.
