Q: Should you buy this?
A: If you have $3500 burning a hole in your pocket, sure. Otherwise no. This is not a comment on the hardware (I cannot really judge that compared to anything else) but the apps don’t exist

The battery is 36 Wh and surprisingly heavy. I have no idea why it is this heavy. It seems pretty small? You will probably want to use this at your desk plugged in most of the time

You cannot actually read normal text with passthrough. I am surprised none of the reviewers mentioned this. I went through iCloud setup this time and it was a real pain to get CVVs entered. It is obvious Mac Virtual Display exists out of necessity, not convenience

Latency on passthrough is pretty low. It’s almost like wearing goggles if you don’t make sudden movements; you can easily perform actions like play catch or eat food with Apple Vision Pro on. If you do move things fast they will (predictably) flicker

The whole “look at things to interact with them” is not bad but as some other reviews have mentioned it takes a bit to get used to. IMO it has a high “dwell” time. You kind of need to stare at something and then select it; it’s natural to move on and it taps something else

Ouch, my Mac Virtual Display keyboard is now skipping and repeating keys sometimes 😬

(I promise I am reviewing this objectively, not just because I am making a competitor)

Taking a break for lunch. The device is starting to get warm

Finished with lunch and back to wor–lol, no. Spent a couple hours trying out the other apps and watching a movie

For movies: 9/10 even without any fancy 3D stuff going on. It does get heavy and its battery is unlikely to last through Oppenheimer but for shorter watching it’s quite good. I don’t even have the new AirPods Pro and the sound is directional. It’s like a portable home theater

Tried a Spatial Video courtesy of @aaron. It’s also excellent, if a bit low on the frame rate. I am looking forward to people making content with higher fps. Panoramas are also nice except they are not very tall if you took them on iPhone, so it’s visor-like rather than immersive

@aaron iPad apps: they’re ok. You can *really* tell which ones are native and which ones are not because of how focus highlighting works. Telegram for example is miserable (using custom UI for everything comes back to bite you, who would’ve thought?). Discord is eh. Slack’s great