Apple’s Vision Pro headset is a $3500 product designed to isolate you from your environment and strap a screen to your face so you’re constantly making money for tech companies.
When it launches next year, every rich early adopter who puts one on their face should be ridiculed. It’s not a vision for the future of computing we should accept.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves
@parismarx "These kids and their walkmans! Unacceptable! Look at them, walking in public not even listening to what's around them!"
Panic and ridicule about new tech happens all the time.
Check back in a decade. You'll have been proven one of those Walkman deniers.
@mattwilcox
Well, I think there is a point to the ridicule. Vision Pro is obviously not the device Apple wanted to make. Apple’s vision (no pun intended) is to make personal, intimate devices most people would like to carry with them, or even wear — everywhere. To make computing personal.
Vision Pro is not that device. Everything from its name, price and clunky design, to how it is marketed screams “professional customer”. Not consumer. And it’s the consumer they want to target — in the end.
Vision Pro is a way for Apple to iterate on the tech and in 10 years perhaps being able to launch the light-weight glasses they want to produce and that everyone would want to wear — everywhere, all the time.
@bitbear Well of course it's not the "final vision", just like the first of any tech isn't. It's literally the first passable attempt. It can't be anything more.
The thing is, the ridicule isn't about the device itself - but a complete myopia about the vision's appeal and applicability. The fact is, when enough people get enough out of a thing, "norms" change to accomodate that.
Which is why no one cares about people wearing earphones in public anymore. Or looking at phones.
@bitbear Was the first iPhone what the visions was? No, miles and miles off. It's *still* not there. But very rapidly, it went from "rich rude fools with more money than sense" to "me, my friends, and their small kids all have them and it's totally normal".
The utility of a smart phone was *always* that value. And, the same for spacial computing.
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