First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS

In the same way that the introduction of multitouch with the iPhone removed a layer of conceptual abstraction — instead of touching a mouse or trackpad to move an on-screen pointer to an object on screen, you simply touch the object on screen — VisionOS removes a layer of abstraction spatially.

Daring Fireball

@daringfireball In reading your review (great one, btw), I was reminded of the first few months of having an actual HDTV. I was in the early days of 1080p broadcasts. It was a 47” (I know!) TV. There were some movies that had filmed actors JUST SO far from the camera such that their heads/faces were exactly life-sized.

This produced moments where they seemed to snap into 3D. Trick of the mind, of course, but it was something I couldn’t turn off or on. It just happened, unbidden. I got the sense maybe some moments of your experience were something like that.