TLDR: The Apple Vision Pro offers groundbreaking tech with eye-tracking and realistic VR, but has limitations in weight, battery life, and app selection.
This article is a summary of a You Tube video “Using Apple Vision Pro: What It’s Actually Like!” by Marques Brownlee
Key Takeaways:
- Innovative Technology: The Apple Vision Pro features groundbreaking technologies including infrared eye tracking, a new operating system, and virtual reconstructions of the user.
- High-Quality Build: It is constructed with metal and glass, providing a premium feel but adding to its weight.
- Advanced Internal Components: The device is powered by an M2 chip and an R1 chip, and includes depth sensors, infrared illuminators, lidar scanners, and cameras.
- Eye-Tracking Capabilities: It has internal sensors for real-time eye tracking, used for eye control and displaying the user’s eyes on the outside of the headset.
- Battery Life and Charging: The battery is 3,366 mAh, smaller than expected, offering 2-4 hours of use. It includes a non-removable cable and a proprietary connector.
- Vision OS and User Interface: Vision OS resembles iPad OS but in 3D. It allows app selection and navigation using hand gestures and eye movements.
- Realistic Passthrough and VR Experience: The device provides a high-resolution passthrough and immersive VR experience, with the ability to toggle between the real world and full VR.
- App Ecosystem: There are apps specifically built for the Vision Pro and regular apps adapted from other Apple devices. Notable absentees include Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify.
- Persona Feature: Unique feature where the headset displays digital eyes on its exterior to represent the user’s eyes, aiming to make interactions more natural.
- Mixed Feedback: While offering impressive technology and features, it has drawbacks like weight, comfort, app selection, battery life, and high price.
