Today I received an incredible surprise care package containing a 1TB Apple Vision Pro (M2), official case, weighted ResMed dual strap, and developer strap, all for which I am incredibly thankful. š¤Æ
Finally, after 2 years, I will be able to dive in to visionOS properly*
(And no, it wasn't from Apple)
*in as much as is possible in a non-supported country, which Apple has made /as painful as possible/, but I will complain about that in due time
My custom satellite TV app works great on visionOS š
I can pick up a 70" virtual tv screen and wander round the house with it, or bring it to the moon or a desert island
One aspect of the Vision Pro experience that really fucking sucks is the Apple TV app.
Not because it's bad.
Because its contents are completely unavailable if Vision Pro isn't supported in your country.
That means no Apple shows, no Paramount+, no nothing. Deep links go nowhere.
You can sometimes play these TV shows and movies using the Apple TV website (but not always), but that's it.
The Apple TV experience is 75% of the value of a Vision Pro, and it's just not available to me in Ireland
I can understand the App Store not being available (though I disagree with that, too), but to lock away my access to the services I'm already paying per month for is a bit of a gut punch ā especially when it's some of the only content Vision Pro *has* right now.
(I knew this going in, for the record, but now I've experienced it I want to share how I feel about it)
Iāve had the headset on for maybe 8 hours today, comfortably. It is so much heavier than the Quest 3, but there is effectively nothing in the OS that can make you motion sickā¦
ā¦except for āImmersive Viewā of spatial video. An optional mode in Photos, hidden behind a button ā a button I would recommend never ever pressing, because only a couple seconds of that can make you very sick š¤® Use it for stabilized fixed-perspective content only
This much was obvious before, but Vision Pro has a massive input problem: text entry and editing *sucks*.
I still think the platform would benefit greatly from a combined keyboard/trackpad accessory, purpose-built, and that's the kind of thing Apple could and should build
Every Apple Developer should be able to log into the developer site and order Vision Pro hardware, light seals in any size, and the developer strap. In every country.
It boggles the mind that they haven't taken this step already
FB20871373 ā Every developer should be able to order Vision Pro from the developer site, in any country
I had a lot of complaints about the original version of visionOS, but they have addressed pretty much all of my most-critical feedback in the OS releases since. If they actually had a good-enough relationship with developers to fill this thing with software, it would be an incredible computing device.
With an empty App Store, though, itās still merely an expensive toy. There are so many ways they could have fixed that in the time since launch, Apple just need to get over themselvesā¦
The problem goes way deeper. There are very few developers who understand the paradigm shift of using VP. Spatial computing requires different metaphors, different ways of thinking. I am sure very few engineers at Apple can grasp this new tech.
Not at all. When Einstein and Maxwell published their theories, initially very few people understood their importance. When Eliza (and later - the Mac) were released, few understood that this is a usability paradigm shift. And remember how many āgurusā reacted at the first iPhone? New breakthrough technologies are almost never adopted rapidly (or understood immediately).
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