Peter LioSep 28, 2023
Federico Viticci 

The Apple Vision Pro is a watershed moment for personal computing.

I tried it a week ago, and haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Here is my story on three pivotal moments from my Vision Pro demo and why spatial computing is a new frontier.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/apple-vision-pro-a-watershed-moment/

Apple Vision Pro: A Watershed Moment for Personal Computing

I’m going to be direct with this story. My 30-minute demo with Vision Pro last week was the most mind-blowing moment of my 14-year career covering Apple and technology. I left the demo speechless, and it took me a few days to articulate how it felt. How I felt. It’s not just that I was

Jun 13, 2023 at 3:14pmWeb
Show threadSigmund JudgeJun 13, 2023
@viticci I’ve been refreshing all day!
Show threadGeert BevinJun 13, 2023
@viticci thanks for sharing and so eloquently writing about your experience, I can't wait to be able to start developing for the Vision Pro!
Show threadDanny PattersonJun 14, 2023
@gbevin @viticci Model 15 for visionOS pleaaase 😎🤩
Show threadSecuropeanJun 13, 2023
@viticci Super read, thanks. VR headsets I find heavy and tiring to wear over extended periods which limits their utility, and the heat build up is a problem. I wonder why Apple didn't think of shifting even more of the weight (and heat) to the body of the user and leaving an even lighter headset.
Show threadJake MillerJun 13, 2023
@securopean @viticci I think this is an important question. I suspect that this signals that the corded battery is a short term compromise. Once they set up the battery pack, leaving the rest on the face is a deliberate decision. All of the tech will shrink in the upcoming generations, getting lighter and thinner and cooler. But there are probably other reasons too.
Show threadhybrid havocJun 16, 2023
@securopean
@viticci or just not building the thing out of metal and glass
Show threaddermdalyJun 13, 2023
@viticci great article Federico. Thanks for writing it.
Show threadMarty DayJun 13, 2023
@viticci couldn’t hit this fast enough.
Show threadSkylocke0xJun 13, 2023
@viticci Does each eye see different angles of the pass through video? Like stereoscopic? So if someone who can only see on one eye, can he enjoy using Vision Pro?
Show threadChristine Romero Jun 13, 2023
@viticci Great read, Federico! I can't wait to be able to try out Vision Pro some day as well
Show threadNate GorbyJun 13, 2023
@viticci bookmarking this so that I can read in full later on today. Excited to read what you have to say about it.
Show threadAlJun 13, 2023
@viticci @macstories great piece and the mention of one of Mad Men’s best sequences is simply perfect 👍
Show threadDavid SmithJun 13, 2023
@viticci I've joked a few times that after seeing the demo "They should have sent a poet” because I couldn’t find the right words to describe the experience...well it turns out they did send a poet. Thank you for capturing in words the feelings I had but couldn't express.
Show threadFederico Viticci Jun 13, 2023
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Show threadJulián Gustavo GómezJun 13, 2023
@_Davidsmith @viticci or as I never call him, Federico “Poeticci” Viticci
Show threadTodd VaziriJun 13, 2023
@_Davidsmith @viticci it’s a really good piece, Federico
Show threadCraig MorganJun 13, 2023
@_Davidsmith @viticci I thought both your pieces comprehensively expanded our understanding of what is to come and from considered, experienced viewpoints … great work both! Now, when does 1.0 release ...
Show threadInternet Hedgehog 🦔Jun 13, 2023
@viticci I haven't been excited for a new device like this for a long while.
Show threadJohanna Wilder, “Go ’Phins!” 🐬Jun 13, 2023
@viticci Beautifully written. I remember back in my day, great writers were determined by the quality of their music reviews. Times have changed, music is no longer avant-garde, and great writers are perhaps now determined by the quality of their technology reviews.
Show threadFrank Endrullat 🌻Jun 13, 2023

@viticci Excellent write up of your experience! 👍

But is this the future you want? I quote “… looking at the world as the computer…”. This brings down another division between the natural, real world and the artificial one. Picture walking into an office space and the 20 people you see all have the Vision Pro on, that reminds me of the people sitting in that audience in the famous 1984 ad.

Show threadFrank Endrullat 🌻Jun 13, 2023
@viticci Once the visual part of this can be integrated into normal glasses without adding bulk or weight, and coupled with AirPods, then we’re talking about a revolution. Until then, this is just a proof of concept, I think.
Show threadMathias af JochnickJun 15, 2023
@FrankEndrullat @viticci I don’t see a big difference to that and a developer today, in his high chair, looking at 3 screens and noise cancelling, large headphones on.
Show threadFrank Endrullat 🌻Jun 15, 2023
@2happy1sad @viticci True, in that environment. But eventually you’ll see people wearing them not just for work. The risk is that it’ll look like today, just worse, when people meet and everyone just stares at their phone. As a pure work tool it may have its merits, but generally it’ll separate people even more from each other I think.
Show threadMathias af JochnickJun 15, 2023
@FrankEndrullat @viticci i hear you. Years out though. I am *super* excited, but i expect to wear it 0 times outside home and hotels if ypu see what i mean
Show threadFrank Endrullat 🌻Jun 15, 2023
@2happy1sad @viticci And don't get me wrong, the technology is amazing and the implementation the best one yet. Exactly what you would expect from Apple. 🤷‍♂️
Show threadGerry HurleyJun 13, 2023
@viticci thank you Federico, for an amazing report on a very special experience!
Show threadPyperkubJun 13, 2023
@viticci Not really seeing a compare/contrast with Halo Lens 2 tho.
Show threadAndrewPJun 13, 2023
@viticci what a beautiful article. Nice touch to add the highly emotive Max Men clip.
Show threadLuca OrioJun 13, 2023
@viticci Questa recensione è un capolavoro! Thanks for sharing :)
Show threadJudeJun 13, 2023
@viticci @briankrebs yes he loves the Vision pro to pieces, but the experience he writes about sounds very powerful- or, as Dan Draper says, delicate but powerful. #VisionPro
Show threadPHolder  Jun 13, 2023
@viticci The Apple Vision Shill Pro is a new career designation reserved for those special few who believe "Those that can do, those that can't shill" 🤑
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@viticci the Don Draper carousel. really. really. wow, man. Imagine being this excited about the first apple watch. I wish I still had that sense of childlike wonder about the world.
Show threadJesseJun 13, 2023
@codinghorror @viticci heh, I was wondering if someone would do that mashup.
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@codinghorror @viticci right. Or the iPad enthusiasm seems silly now considering how long it took to get useful and is today mostly still an accessory.
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @viticci plus, I wear glasses, so the whole product is like a giant "fuck you" to me personally
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@codinghorror @viticci they’re doing prescription lens aren’t they?
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @viticci eventually at some point at unknown price points. The main thing I learned from this product unveiling is that the best possible investment of $3500 right now is on lasik. In a decade, things may be different.
Show threadchetmanJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @codinghorror @viticci That’s a crazy weird take on the iPad.
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@chetman @codinghorror @viticci Really not an uncommon one considering the years of complaints about the OS being a huge letdown to the hardware. They can’t even get multitasking right.
Show threadchetmanJun 13, 2023

@StevenBarnhart @codinghorror @viticci That power users of the Mac were unhappy the iPad was something different is not news, but that doesn’t render the iPad disappointing to people who saw beyond that bias.

It just reminds us how short-sighted that reaction was.

Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@chetman @codinghorror @viticci it’s not anyone’s primary machine in the office or at home. That’s the phone and the computer. Next?
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @chetman @viticci yeah exactly this. It's not primary for anyone, statistically speaking. It is an accessory, like the Apple Watch.
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@codinghorror @chetman @viticci And not a huge dev story (i.e., not much money there). Could change, but I see right now the parallels to at least the apple watch and the vision pro. Not to mention it involves a new culture of people wearing them outside which I despise.
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @chetman @viticci yeah "spend quality time with your family, oddly isolated inside this weird bulky headset!" Makes total sense! I'll take twelve!
Show threadpebcakJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @chetman @codinghorror @viticci that might be true for you. It was for a long time the main machine for my then preteen son... he made his own audiobooks with it. If he had not moved to 3d modeling and animation it would likely still be his primary machine. It's a generational thing.
Show threadchetmanJun 13, 2023
@pebcak @StevenBarnhart @codinghorror @viticci Also I know a number of seniors who use it as their primary platform.
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@pebcak @chetman @codinghorror @viticci right he moved to actual production work. Most podcasts STILL aren’t on iPad either. It’s only just now getting proper external mic support.
Show threadpebcakJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @chetman @codinghorror @viticci but the only reason he moved is processing power. (It's not production work, he's a carpenter. ;))
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@pebcak @StevenBarnhart @chetman odd because the M2 is quite powerful (assuming iPad Pro). I guess if you need obscene amounts of compute..
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 14, 2023
@codinghorror @pebcak @chetman the iPads memory management has sucked until recently with memory swapping. If you wanted to see me enraged just watch me use the browser and some apps and go to copy and paste between them and see that the iPad reset the app.
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 14, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @pebcak @chetman note that the 1TB iPad Pro models have 16gb RAM, anything with 512gb or less have 8gb RAM.
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 14, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @pebcak @chetman also are you really seeing a lot of tab swapping with 8gb RAM? Because that's a fair bit of RAM even on the "low end"
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 14, 2023
@codinghorror @pebcak @chetman randomly but no not as much. Sadly lots lately on my iPhone 12. It never wants to handle anything these days. I was speaking more so the situation until recently.
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 14, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @pebcak @chetman well, iphone 12 is 4gb ram, iphone 13 and 14 are 6gb ram. Maybe 15 will jump to 8gb? Google says the iPhone 15 Pros will have 8gb, indeed. Apple has always been frustratingly stingy with RAM and storage, but over time they're getting there. Where they should have been a few years ago..
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 14, 2023
@codinghorror @pebcak @chetman yeah just crazy to think because it was so fast for so long and feels like it just cratered recently. Constantly running lot on 64 GB too and barely am a picture taker. The damn apps are too big these days.
Show threadchetmanJun 13, 2023
@StevenBarnhart @codinghorror @viticci This is just plain wrong. Think beyond your bubble.
Show threadJeff AtwoodJun 13, 2023
@chetman @StevenBarnhart @viticci I think it's a mixture, but let's check the sales stats "In the latest quarter, iPad sales accounted for nearly about eight percent of Apple's total global revenue" so 8 percent. It's the lowest revenue generating item they ship.
Show threadSteven BarnhartJun 13, 2023
@codinghorror @chetman @viticci I listen to lots of Apple Podcasts. The biggest apple enthusiast. None of them are made on the iPad and only one (masochist) at this point are using the iPad for the majority of their computing.