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While I have put in my usual best effort to remain cloistered,

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the Apple Vision Pro has been absolutely unavoidable

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in the news if you're even remotely connected to tech. So I already know all kinds of stuff about this thing,

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like someone apparently got Steam Link working on it

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so you can play your games with a gigantic screen.

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The good news is everything I've seen has made me more excited about this device.

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If you were hoping for the PC guy just hates on the thing,

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you'll probably have to wait for the full review over on LTT. For now, I just want to see these displays.

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And good Lord, have they ever done a good job

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of making this thing feel like a few thousand dollars?

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Wow!

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Look, we develop a lot of merch around here, okay? And this is a really cool material.

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Ifixit has done a teardown already, which I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

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So I already know that removing the strap,

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wow, really is that easy, which is important for, I don't know,

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cleaning the device and also for swapping out to one of the other straps.

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That came off a bit more easily than I was expecting. To their credit, it's really easy to get a line,

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really fast to put back in place. I do like the magnetic mount, man.

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The materials, they feel really good. It's got almost like a gel filled kind of feel

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for the face cushion. This is my first time putting on a spatial computer.

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Oh, one sec. Okay, I really wanted that to go a lot more gracefully.

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Ooh, it pumps against the bridge of the nose

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a little bit there, which could be a concern for certain experience, but if you're using it

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to expand your Mac with a virtual desktop,

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then that's less likely to be an issue. And I've gotta say, even though I have seen some users

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talking about wearing it without the light seal,

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just to get it in closer to their face and closer to their eyes to help with the weight distribution

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and the field of view, I don't really feel at least initially

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like that's necessary. Maybe part of it is that a lot of the press

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and a lot of the users who are covering this are not VR enthusiasts necessarily,

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but even though it's heavy, what they've done a really good job of is keeping the weight in quite close to the face,

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which is something I talked about in my big screen beyond review. Okay, what else we got in terms of accessories?

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Does it include a charger? I love that some reviewers complained about messing up their hair.

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Not an issue for me, baby. Ah, your size, but more cushiony.

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Oh, that's something I wanna try. I'll have to see how it affects FOV before I make a decision, but that is more comfortable.

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Ah, the other band. So my understanding is this one's a touch heavier,

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but is a little bit easier to kind of get it on there. Let's try the dual loop band real quick.

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Not gonna lie, guys. There's no denying that this costs a lot of money,

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but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is overpriced.

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We've known Apple has been working on a mixed reality headset for many years.

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Somebody's gotta pay for all that research and development. And like them or not, this has got a MacBook in it.

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It's got an M2 processor with an eight core CPU and 10 core GPU along with their new R1 spatial processor,

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which is supposed to handle near zero latency pass through. I think they're claiming about 12 milliseconds.

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So that's less than one frame per second at 60 Hertz.

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So it's about one frame at 90 Hertz, I think. Incredible.

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That doesn't necessarily mean it's worth spending the money on.

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See, there's three different answers potentially for this thing.

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Is it expensive? Yes. Is it overpriced? No.

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Is it worth it? That remains to be seen. I definitely like the face hug fit of the default band.

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If I can see how if you were wearing it for a very extended period of time,

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this could be good-ish. Personally, I prefer the angle

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to go a little bit more to the back though, like a little bit more wrapping around the back of the head.

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I think this is the first time in as long as I can remember,

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but I've actually done a proper unboxing

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and really looked at everything that's in the box because I care.

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See, people think I'm some kind of Apple hater, but guys, you can like a product without necessarily agreeing

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with everything that a company does. I love my AirPods Pros.

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Look, there it is. A charging brick. So they can do it.

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I mean, all the laptops come with charging bricks. So I guess the precedent is there for it.

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Unboxing the battery. The first thought that I have is thank goodness

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this isn't also strapped to your face. This side uses that hidden lightning connector.

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We will never be free of it. Some removal tool, we'll pop that out. And then you've got a USB-C input that handles charging

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for the compute and displays that are all in here. Apple boasts that these displays

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have a total of 23 million pixels, allowing you to use this not only as a virtual private theater,

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but even to expand your desktop and use it for productivity.

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That is the use case I'm most interested in. We were just working on a review of a foldable laptop

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and I loved the idea of being able to quickly do something

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or unfold my screen, put it on its little kickstand

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and really get to work. Well, that's basically this. I'm gonna switch over to the other band.

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Let's fire this thing up. There is no way that at the price this thing shouldn't come with a carrying case

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that includes lens protectors. That is an essential accessory,

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especially when you consider that Apple obviously knows that because they do include a protector for the front.

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Like they don't mind if you damage it in a way that affects the user experience,

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but heaven forbid you damage it in a way that affects how good it looks to other people

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while you're wearing it. Just Apple priorities, man. Everything about this comp anyway.

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Doesn't matter. The point is, let's fire it up. Please tell me it makes the Mac boot up sound.

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Please tell me it makes the Mac boot up sound. It does nothing if you don't plug in the battery.

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One moment, please. Hey, little Apple logo. Man, the iFixit teardown of this thing is something else.

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All the different layers that they had to put into this front glass to achieve that look.

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Not gonna lie, would have preferred the old boom.

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There's a massive array of infrared LEDs and IR cameras inside to help with eye tracking.

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So that's gonna be one of the big pros and cons of this device.

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Pro, you don't need controllers. Con, you don't have controllers.

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At least for the time being. All right, press and hold to align.

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Whoa, it automatically adjusts the IPD for you.

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This pass through is f***ing incredible.

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I really wanna adjust this angle right here.

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And I cannot. It doesn't, it's sitting really hard against here.

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There it is. Boom. Here we go, screen cap.

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You guys get to see what I'm seeing now? Saw quite a few complaints about the field of view.

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You know what? Obviously it's not as good as the top headsets on the market,

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but to their credit, Apple doesn't have nearly as much

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internal pancake lens glare as I saw on the big screen beyond.

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And if that's the price they had to pay, I'm okay with it.

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Oh man, we've got cargo pants coming. LTTstore.com, boom.

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Apple Vision Pro Pocket, got him. Oh wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, please.

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Oh my God, this pocket's perfect for it.

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We're ahead of the curve, baby.

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Coming soon. Hey, here we go. Let's get creepy.

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Oh my God, I'm you.

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Stop, stop. Ha ha ha ha.

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This is great. Hi, I'm Jake Povant.

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I have a deep voice. Subscribe to short too.

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I can't even bake it. Refine your hands though, okay? Sure.

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Capture complete. Oh boy, I have a feeling.

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Got a feeling that's not gonna look too good. So you're gonna notice, oh, that is terrible.

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Do I look like that? I mean, they really captured my totally crooked eyes.

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So that's an accomplishment.

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Check this out, Bill. Well, I'll see you in the FaceTime. Oh yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay, FaceTime.

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That is really something. You know, it does look like KQ.

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Oh, well that's a disappointment.

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Oh yeah, oh, I didn't know that you can see my hands. So if I was like this, then yeah,

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thanks for your compliments. Knowing Apple, I'm surprised they don't censor it.

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You know how they like censor stuff if you dictate to Siri and it has swear words in it?

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Hello, call controls at some point?

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Looking at the dot does not bring up the controls.

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I have to look at the call. Can I actually resize it myself?

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Doesn't really look like it.

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Why? This reminds me of how when you're viewing a picture

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in Apple's Photos app, you can only zoom in so far

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and then it'll just be like, no. Why? Who cares?

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Just let me make it bigger. I want a giant movie theater-sized Jake Belivance.

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Here we go, here we go. This, I'm pretty excited.

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Wow, does that ever look good? Holy crap balls.

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Oh, micro OLED, baby. Got those deep blacks.

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That resolution though.

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Wow. Now we saw some cool stuff at CES this year

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around future micro OLED tech in terms of brightness and pixel density

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that is gonna make this even better. But today, right now, that is pretty usable.

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You can only have one window? Why? Oh, you know what?

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It's probably a link speed issue. Cause that's pretty high res.

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So this one I get, cause you're wirelessly linked.

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I can see why they don't want you putting up like four different monitors.

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It would just choke the connection out. But there are some arbitrary limitations.

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I like the fact that Bluetooth keyboards work. Bluetooth magic trackpad works,

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but Bluetooth mice apparently don't work, at least officially.

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Okay, I wanna watch it. Can I watch an HDR video?

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Now, just a gosh darn second here. I want my audio to come through this.

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It's not showing up. Is there any way to interact with this with gestures?

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Doesn't really look like it. Seems like I just have to use the trackpad, which if all you really want is a gigantic virtual display,

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I mean, mission accomplished, I guess, right? Okay, let's say I wanted to browse my photos now though.

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So I could move this, I don't know, over here.

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So now, can I just,

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oh yeah, there it is. And it acts like a little iPad accessibility dot mouse thing.

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Oh, okay, spatial video. Ooh, spatial video of a car.

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Ooh.

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Ah. It makes sense that something so far away

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would have less depth to it.

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In this case, I don't think the spatialness of it is really adding a lot, but this Vista.

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Ooh, this picture though, this panoramic picture, that is cool.

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That's less like, I remember taking this picture. That's more like, I remember when I was there.

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Very cool. I would like to watch an HDR video.

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Oh wait, this is not available in Canada yet? It's not available anywhere, so you can see it.

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Ah, figures. Give me that HDR.

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Can I use this?

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Oh no, I unpaired it. Hold on, let's see if I can...

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Hello? No? I don't know, I thought maybe if I tap it, NFC.

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I'm kidding, relax.

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It's really a shame that the MacBook display doesn't stay lit.

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Oh, I want to change my environment. I want to be in VR so I can really see

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the deep blacks of this OLED. Can you just put it in just VR mode?

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What? If I just block the cameras.

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Then it's just the inside of my hand. Oh yeah, there we go.

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Okay, I'm 100% on the moon now. Good gravy is this display ever good.

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Still work to do for text if you're used to, you know, a retina display or something like that.

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Not the best I've seen for an automatic background removal. But it's still solid.

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Here we go, HDR.

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Why is it defaulting to 720? Fine, 720 HDR there.

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That we end up making almost entirely by accident. Meet the Alexa 35 on Ari's website.

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They break that most big production for sure.

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That's pretty good. The eye tracking is pretty amazing.

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Something to note, guys, is the Vision Pro uses foveated rendering,

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meaning it renders at a higher resolution where you are looking.

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So in our screen capture, if you're looking where I'm not looking,

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it might be a little blurrier. Your mileage may vary.

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There's just a couple more first impression things. The speakers did not wow me.

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I would use my AirPods Pros. And in the time that I've been sitting here using it,

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we managed to use up about a quarter of the battery.

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That's not bad. If all I want to do is just experience it for a little bit,

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but it's not going to be great if you're trying to get through a workday with it. Ooh, it's warm.

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Wait, did you see my eyes in the past, you think? It's pretty honest.

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Oh, okay. Apparently there's a lot of reflections. Hello, Linus.

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I'm here in the void. Oh, wow.

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I can see your eyes. It's weirdly 3D. Okay. It's like looking at a 3DS screen.

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Cool. You know what else you can do a little bit? Subscribe to ShortCircuit.

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And make sure you're subscribed to LTT for the full review. I'll be spending realistically a while on this.

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Is it going to be worth switching to a MacBook? Guess I'm going to find out.