One week ago, if you had asked me if I planned on getting an Apple Vision Pro, I would have scoffed. Why try typing on a clumsy digital keyboard when I could work much faster on a real one? Why watch a movie on a flat screen inside a headset when I could just turn on my TV? Wildly expensive, superfluous tech is just not for me.
What immediately stands out is how quickly I was able to navigate menus with barely a moment of tutorial. All I had to do was stare at an app icon, and the headset would highlight it exactly as I had expected. Clicking on it was a simple matter of pinching my fingers. While I wondered how accurate that would be, the Vision Pro barely missed a single gesture, whether my hand was resting on my lap or raised closer to my chest.
My experiences built up in complexity through the half hour. I started by simply scrolling through a photo album. I was immediately struck by how intuitive that experience was. I could grab the bottom right corner of a photo to expand it, pinch with two fingers to zoom in, move my fingers up to scroll, or move the app around by grabbing a white bar at the bottom of the app. I barely had to think about what I was doing; every gesture came naturally.
Using a pricey headset to look at photos is certainly wasteful, but Apple made a much stronger case for the Vision Pro as the demo went on. I first saw that when I opened a panoramic photo that stretched across my field of vision. Panoramas have never made much sense to me on devices like the iPhone, but it feels like they were built for the Vision Pro all along. Those long photos become immersive landscapes in the headset.
Entertainment seems to be a big focus for Apple at launch and I saw some strong examples of that during my demo. Using the Apple TV app, I dropped into a virtual movie theater to watch a scene from The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Here, I got a full movie theater simulation where I could choose how close I was to the screen and whether I was viewing it from a floor or balcony. That may sound hokey, but it really did feel like sitting in a theater. Even more impressive, though, was when I watched a reel of 180-degree videos captured in 8K. One quick shot put me right above a soccer net during a game, allowing me to see the action up close.
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