Aug 3, 2024
VR/AR Productivity
The reason I wanted to buy the Vision Pro is quite honestly, I just love any new technology. Apple rarely introduces a new product category, something like an iphone, an ipad, an Apple, watch it. So this was their next quote unquote big thing. How it get it. I watched WW DC in 2023 they started their one more thing, went through the whole one more thing and then the live stream ended. And my first two thoughts were I need to show this to everyone that I know and in order to show it to everyone that I know I have to have it, it seems like for half a century been reading science fiction and looking at computer setups and this is just feels like this is what we've been dreaming of a system that really gets you fully immersed and engaged. I've been using smart displays since 2007 to different iterations and I felt like it really blended the perfect ideas of form and function and allowed me to explore productivity like I'd never considered before. There was just so much hype that was around it. And I was in a space where I was really excited to try it out and just be one of those early adopters. I didn't know if I was going to end up keeping it or not, but I was so blown away when I went to the store on opening day to try it out. Close your eyes for a moment. Capture, complete my takeaway on facetime Vision Pro calls is a big, no, I mean, the reality is, I just think the quality is not there. I just think they all look awkward and kind of cringey. I have not been using yet the persona feature. I just feel like it would be too weird, uh too different, you know, just distracting from a call. If I use it with someone else who has a vision Pro, then it's like, oh wow, this is so cool. This is amazing. It has flew under the radar multiple times to the shock of literally everyone in the office. Most people who like know me and have seen my face a couple of times um will just be like, oh wow, like that's an interesting video filter. I think with friends, especially my close friends, they can't take me seriously with it. They, they want me to switch back to just like my ipad or my Mac or iphone. I probably use my Vision Pro a couple of times every few weeks. I do tours in my town, my little village where I allow people to see my village through different points of time by placing historic photos over top of newer buildings so they can swipe through it. When I go to work in the morning, I pull my Vision Pro out. I set it on my head. My job is to kind of manage engineering projects. When parts get released, I tend to pull out the C AD and look at it in 1 to 1 on my desk before we get our hands on it. I use it for entertainment a lot ever since getting the Apple Vision Pro the TV is basically just turned off at all times unless I have a guest over or I want to play video games. I've been spending some time helping document intentional communities, co housing neighborhoods, eco villages. People say, what's that? I shoot panoramas and get people immersed in the environment. This is the kind of tool that I think can really help people get it. And I also love to use it for things like free form. So it's like actually going up to that free form board and actually drawing with my finger on it. It's really good and collaborative and it's also really amazing to be able to do that. And as a content creator, I also really love to edit on it. If you want to get this thing out there, $3500 to start is not the place to be need to get that price down. But part of the Vision Pro experience is using it with other people who also have a Vision pro. And so it really needs to be more approachable for the average consumer as someone who wears glasses, the vision pro was also kind of a challenge for me, I had to get special lenses in there. And that really excited me. These are the Band Metta glasses with the A I embedded in them. And I know just being able to gesture with my hand or talk to them is super interesting. So when I think about the future of vision pro, I want something that functions a lot more like these, I think the one thing that could be improved would be the audio experience when you don't have air pods in the audio pods on the sides of the bands are very good. But it's hard to be physics for base trying to travel across distance to your when you put the Apple Vision pro on it can feel like you're in, in binoculars. Actually, in most cases, you kind of start to forget about that. But if the field of view would expand, I think that would make the experience so much more immersive. I'm not ready to have this on all the time and physically and socially. I even went to uh when the first week I had it to a panel about cyborgs. And these are people that have been writing about this stuff for 50 years. They were not prepared for a cyborg to enter the room. The thing I think I like most about the vision pro right now is the thing that's probably the most hated about it. And that's the exclusivity. Not everybody has one that being said, I understand the exclusivity because of the pricing can be a little bit much on folks using the Vision Pro to me. Feels like I'm stepping into the future in a way that no other product allows me to right now. It really is, uh, uh, fun to put on and just be in another world. When the ipad came out, people aren't really sure how they would use it and fit it into their lives. But there is just so many different use cases for the Apple Vision Pro and it does certain things really well when I first got it, um, it was great. It was magical. Right. There's the honeymoon period of tech where it's just like, oh, this is a cool thing you don't really want, like, think about how much you just spent on it. Um, but then over the last few months it's just slowly gotten better with updates. It's hard to find something I don't like about it. It's everything about. It has been almost perfect to me.