I know I know the vision pro is out and I have tried it in fact the first time is
in this video look it's taken a while and so this video won't have my thoughts
but in the intervening time what I did was interviewed a few people who
shelled out over $3,500 for the headset like who are these people and why did you
buy a vision pro why did you buy an ample vision pro or at least in your case
four
obviously to play Genshin oh I guess that makes sense because Matt Beck strand
who also goes by the name so Luna online does in fact run a Genshin impact
themed YouTube channel and while he did obviously get it to run on the vision
pro it wasn't the sole reason he shelled out for one the biggest reason is I'm
just passionate about technology and VR and AR in general any other people like
me believe in the ability to interface with the computer in a way that's not
possible without a device like this on a software level Apple is taking an AR VR
device in a direction that other manufacturers just haven't I wanted to
try it just for that reason alone the second reason is I have a friend he's
spent I don't know like five years or something a large chunk of his life at this point working on the vision pro since it's a release now we've been
talking about it with him a lot and it's just kind of you know fun for me on a
personal like level to talk about a thing that he worked on Matt wasn't the
only Apple vision pro purchaser I posed this question to because I also called
Ian Zalbo a computer science student at Brown University and 3d graphics artist
responsible for the vision pro render you saw on every rumor blog post over the
past few years and finally I also spoke to John Dagdalen founder of the mixed
reality app fluid who also generously helped us pre-order LMG's own vision
pro so I've been in using VR and XR devices for I guess like four years now
I got my feet wet with the quest one and it just opened my mind to what it
could be and I was inspired to create a an app where you can put web browsers
around you and web apps and anything really and then be able to work on it
in a flexible workspace and so we've been we've been making an app called
fluid to do this and then when the vision pro is announced it had a lot of the
same ideas that we've been working on for a few months and I had to see it for
myself and I think just being in this world of XR is really the reason I've
been reflecting on it the past few days I don't know was it an impulsive an
impulsive it wasn't okay it wasn't impulsive because I really did think
about it because obviously it's an absurd amount of money I just wanted to
give it a try and I think today I'm past my return window so I'm stuck with it
so did you pre-order it or did you I did pre-order it I figured if I hate it I
can return it but now you can't but now I can't so I guess you don't hate it I
don't hate it no what does that mean I don't know I just I think it's just so
it's so fun to use I don't think I'm doing anything exactly new but it's what
I normally do in a new interesting way what was the buying experience like for
you so I bought it online oh actually good god actually just reminded me it
was not as smooth as I remember it initially was smooth okay but then my
payment wouldn't go through then I needed to place a new order but they
forced me to order a new prescription inserts in order to get the correct
size light feel I did the pickup and it was actually a very strange experience I
think there was four other people in the store and I came at I think it was 10
a.m. I thought it was gonna be like another iPhone 15 day with the lines
all the way down the mall but there was nobody and then I set it up in the store
and proceeded to use it for the next three hours in the store oh really you
stayed in the store yep I stayed in the store for a long time and I posted about
it and like people came to like meet me in the store that's how long I was there
I mean I FaceTime like 40 people showed them my persona and you know it was a
really really fun day I haven't I haven't felt that in probably since I got
like the iPhone 10 you had ever a few days or a week now what do you think
about it to simplify it down I would say my current experience with it is it's
mostly really enjoyable as a 2d entertainment device and 3d entertainment
but there's not that much 3d entertainment available so mostly it's just like I
watched a lot of anime or whatever so I can go on Crunchyroll and I can put my
anime in a 50 inch screen instead of being like you know I'm gonna watch it on
my tiny iPhone screen right that's better is it $4,000 better that's what
it costs me after tax is it $4,000 better maybe some people I think it's
really good it's the best VR headset that you can buy right now the the the
resolution of the like virtual content is just unbelievably good I don't think
we need to go farther for it to hit massive adoption in terms of resolution
I do have issues with comfort on the Vision Pro I find it very just very
heavy on my face like a lot of people I think have echoed similar things but
overall I mean I love I love what they've done I don't know I was instantly
surprised at like the eye tracking honestly it's it's just absurd but I
didn't like really realize you really just navigate with your eyes and I used
it for probably like five hours the first day and I honestly felt like myself
change I know let me explain this I I went to exit my friend's room and I
looked at his doorknob and I pinched I swear to God it was it was a scary
moment for me I'm curious how different you look I've heard people say it's
pretty good my mom described it like me as a football player so I don't know
what to think about that wow that's kind of cool you've interacted with some
personas what would you say is the difference between like you've seen the
person in real life versus the persona like how off is it it really depends on
the scan yeah we actually there's a tweet on my account where I took someone's
persona and overlaid it on their face and put it next to it so you can compare
it what do you think it looked pretty good yeah I think his persona looked
better than the real the real thing so your mom was right about the football
it makes my neck like weirdly why doesn't I do want you to put it on oh yeah
I never saw the eyesight it works like surprisingly well like I saw myself in
the mirror the eyesight turned and I was like oh that's weird it is weird but I
think the idea this is really good I think really I've been FaceTiming a
lot of friends like friends I haven't talked to in a while just to show them
and then I've also one of my favorite things was my friend Ray he's at
Inverse and he was like do you want to FaceTime? we FaceTimed when we played you
know Game Room so we played like we played Battleship and I never never talked
to him in person but it felt so weirdly real like I had his little face right
there and you know I would like pick up the Battleship movement I would see a
little missile go across the screen to his it was it was really fun I've tried
some persona calls but I gotta say like for doing a call inside the headset
where you're both wearing it it's it's meaningfully different it's been part
of this bigger discussion of like work from home versus back to office and
stuff there you might not need to make that trade off in the future and did you
find that convincing in the Vision Pro so far it's not quite there yet you
can't just point to a thing on the screen have somebody like look at it and
see you know things like that are really important I think and also I think it's
still too hard to get whatever software you want on these devices these the app
stores are a little bit too restricted in my opinion like on my MacBook I can
just I can literally write a program and run it on it but that's not the case
for for this technology yet I would love to see it get to that place because I
think that's just good for for all of us yeah I agree with you it that's
definitely one thing I'm most worried about actually with those in Pro I also
intend to have my grandparents try it they're not tacky people I think they're
gonna get it pretty quickly but I think they're gonna get it and they're gonna
see the value in it they immediately probably unbelievable how big it's like
a huge TV screen that's crazy when I have them try I plan to not tell them how
much it costs and then ask them how much is worth after they try it I would say
it's probably a two thousand two to three thousand dollar item 999 dollars
and 99 cents I really wish it was that low either they haven't internalized a
lifetime's worth of inflation or Apple really is charging too much for the
Vision Pro whatever the case those who has shelled out all this money on the
Vision Pro are at least getting it onto the heads of the rest of us they're
sharing their passion for technology which for being honest is what drove them
to buy it in the first place so this is gonna be my first time wearing this oh
my goodness here we go there we go there we go whoa hello
wow it seems like you're quite an Apple enthusiast and I'm kind of curious
about that what's sort of the background the story my parents were always very
interested in Apple so I think I was always just kind of immersed in that
and I saw the iPod Nano 6 I saw a commercial for that when I was like six
or seven years old and thought that was the coolest thing ever and so I saved
up all my allowance money and then I I got it and then proceeded to wear it as
an Apple watch for the next like five years I hate to call myself an Apple
enthusiast but that is that is what I am it would be hard to find something that
I don't have from them to give Apple credit my tech enthusiasm started with
Apple really the very first tech device that started like majority of liking
tech was buying an iPod like a fourth-gen iPod Nano I love the thing I
still have it so I say I say to my meager allowance to buy that iPod and
that caused me to be a hardcore Apple fanboy like entirely throughout middle
school funnily enough the thing that caused me just like level out was
Minecraft so I like working out like edge technologies especially when
they're underappreciated and I feel like I can kind of elevate them and get them
going and so once AI really kicked off and everyone was talking about LLMs and
it was like everywhere it kind of my site started getting set on like what I
think is the next really important technology for for all of us and I think
XR really is that I remember anticipating the vision pros announcement puzzled at
the question of what's this for so much so that I went out and interviewed a few
different people to figure out what we could expect it was an interesting
conversation that you can and should watch and it didn't turn out to be that
far off of what the vision pro was pitched as thanks for shelling out the
money for this Mac Address I'm curious who of you actually spent the money for
a vision pro and why and if you want to watch another video you should check the one out that we released just before the vision pro got announced or asked what
could this thing even be for