Anil DashAfter a closer look at the Apple Vision Pro reviews & talking to people who’ve used it, my prediction of the most likely path is that its evolution resembles the Apple Watch, which went from big, vague promises to a simple health & notifications device. So, a future Vision Air (or whatever) will ditch external eye displays & complexity and mostly be a very large smart display. You can tell any Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple TV (maybe HomePod!) to extend to this display. That’s the big, basic deal.
(And FaceTime in XR should just use memojis instead of weird creepy avatars.)
i_.o._iThe thing to keep in mind is, just as a display alone, the Vision Pro is squarely in the mid-priced range of Apple’s display products.
Jeff Atwood@anildash nailed that one for sure
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱@anildash That was a very good take.
More now, even, than the 5 year mark.
Melanie@anildash my iPad is my favorite device of…all of them. Every gadget, computer, console, everything. My iPad is legit my favorite personal device.
Luke Kanies
jmac@anildash well done, well done
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@anildash This aged almost as well as my investment in MySpace. Kudos!
Felix Bernoully@anildash Nice one, indeed. On a side note, I just realized I still have an A4 humming along in my 2nd gen Apple TV.
Ernie Smith@anildash Impressive predictive skills
Jordan@anildash Cinema Display mini
@anildash There is a lot of room for innovation on even just this particular front, if Apple wants to invest in it.
There is a lot one could do with an infinitely-sized display.
Jeff C. 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])
…and that's if they go the conservative route with Mac integration. It'd take some extra work (a la Stage Manager), but if they get ambitious they might even be able to break Mac _apps_ out of the virtual display paradigm entirely, rendering them in a #visionOS-optimized context. (Those of you who remember how early Mac OS X ran Classic apps might understand what I'm suggesting…) Point is... there's much potential here, and #VisionPro having a single virtual display might just be the start.