2024-01-18 09:00:00
Vision Pro, Apple Vision Pro | Photo: Justin Sullivan, getty images Apple’s mixed reality glasses, or as the company wants them to be called – the “peripheral computing” glasses, Expected to arrive in stores at the beginning of February. Unlike iPhones and the rest of the company’s products, if you ask to purchase the glasses, you will not receive them in a bag with an exchange note and a plate blessing. The customers, who will pay no less than $3,500 for the product, will have to go through glasses fitting sessions and briefings “longer than an episode of Seinfeld or Friends,” according to a report by journalist Mark Grumman in Bloomberg.
As you remember, Apple first unveiled the Vision Pro glasses during its global developer conference last June. The glasses include a 4K monitor for each eye, and they allow you to switch between augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) using a dial located on the side. They are powered by a dual chipset, which includes Apple’s internal M2 chip and the new R1 chip, which is designed to process data from the glasses’ built-in sensors, cameras and microphones.
APPLE VISION PRO! Feel free to ask any questions! Can’t believe it’s almost here — preorders are happening this Friday at 5am.
So far I got to test out scrolling through photos, watching spatial video/photos/panoramas, and watching content in their immersive environments.
One… pic.twitter.com/R1of8GZWV1
— iJustine (@ijustine) January 17, 2024
Unfortunately, we probably won’t see the glasses in Israel anytime soon, but in the United States the flagship stores are already being prepared with special booths for fitting the glasses and briefing the enthusiastic buyers. This is also the reason why we will not be able to try them ourselves in the near future, and will have to make do with the impressions of foreign reporters. Here are some of them.
Victoria Song, a senior reporter at The Verge magazine, said that the 30 minutes she spent with the device felt “more natural than she expected.” According to Song, the face scan is similar to the familiar Face ID process, and mounting the glasses on the head is not much different from other augmented reality helmets. After the assembly process and face scanning, comes the eye calibration phase, which includes looking at specific points on the screen and pinching your fingers accordingly. Then the system, VisionOS, brings up an application screen, similar to opening an Apple computer. The screen itself has a number of buttons similar to Apple’s watch display, such as a crown on the top right that centers the user on the home page. On the other side you can find a button to take spatial photos or videos.
During the demonstration, the journalists tried to surf the Safari browser and write search words, and according to Song, the process was cumbersome and the typing was only done at a speed where the eyes can look at a letter on the keyboard and press it with the fingers – meaning, slowly. Therefore, according to her, it is better to activate Siri and give her voice instructions.
During the trial, Song tried some of the glasses’ options, such as watching a Disney series trailer, playing a game and watching special videos. According to her impressions, the Vision Pro feels like Meta’s Quest glasses, but of better quality and with a better processor. Song wondered about the use of “persona”, the simulation that Apple makes of our face to display it on the outside, and this is so that the environment knows what we are doing while we are in virtual reality.
Apple Vision Pro 2024 pic.twitter.com/qX9BJM7eDN
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) January 16, 2024
Song summed up the experience: “It’s all well and good, but it’s still strange to put the system together and not know how you look from the outside, not to be aware of your visibility. It will take time to get used to the social conditioning of the system. I spent half an hour like a child looking at an extraterrestrial planet, although that I didn’t leave my couch. By the end of the demo, I could already feel the weight of the glasses bringing me back to the real world. I frowned and concentrated so hard, I felt the beginnings of a slight headache. That tension dissipated as soon as I took the glasses off, but when I returned to Manhattan, I continued to play the The demo in my head. I know what I saw now, I’m just still trying to see where it fits in the real world.”
Charlene Lowe of Engadget explained why the initial fit of the glasses is important: “The unit I tried came with a stretchy strap that ends at the back of the head. It was wide, square, and soft, and at first I thought it would be comfortable. Fifteen minutes into the trial, I started to feel the heaviness of the device, and five Another few minutes later, I was in pain. To be fair, I should have mentioned my discomfort to the Apple people earlier because replacement straps were available for me to replace, but I wanted to avoid wasting time. When I finally told the company staff about the issues, they replaced the strap with one that has It has two loops, with one going over my head.”
Dana Wellman from the same site also said: “The adjustment took long enough for me to worry about the moment I’m doing it wrong, or that somehow I have the wrong head in the world. First, I struggled to get the letters to look sharp. It was like sitting in an optometrist’s office and trying on a lens that was Blurry to me. Tightening the straps helped me get the sharpest possible text, but it pinched my nose. The solution was to change the sealing pad to the lighter of the two options.”
The two Engadget journalists said that the goal of the Vision Pro, to make you feel inside the same reality, was successful. One of them shed a tear when she saw a video of a child playing with his parents, just like watching from the side, and immediately realized that in the future those spatial videos that we can take on the iPhone, will become a tangible memory that we can experience. The other, on the other hand, cringed uncomfortably when she had to watch the dinosaur approach her in a menacing manner. Both agreed that the Disney Plus experience is one of a kind, when you can “sit” inside the set of a favorite series and watch the series yourself, a kind of drive-in, but on the roof of Marvel’s Avengers building.
Charlene summed up the experience: “The eye and hand tracking systems are impressively accurate, and I quickly learned how to navigate the interface, so much so that I followed the instructions they gave me. However, I’m not convinced that I would want to spend hours and hours with the glasses, even if the experience is impressive. The $3,500 price of the device is also out of my budget, but of all the VR, AR, and MR glasses I’ve tried in my career, Apple’s Vision Pro is by far the best, and easily the most expensive.
Dana, on the other hand, wrote: “The Vision Pros were generally easier to use than I expected, and while they have potential as an all-purpose device that you can use for web browsing, email reading, and even some commercial applications, their best use, for now, is clearly watching movies.” (home or commercial). If you ask me how it felt to use the glasses, especially in photography and video applications, my answer is that I felt happiness. It’s fun to use them, and it’s up to you if that fun is worth $3,500 to you.”
So in the meantime, the journalists who tried the glasses complimented the product and its capabilities, except for the use of the floating keyboard, but all complained that it was not the most comfortable on the head and wondered about the wide consumer use of virtual reality users. Maybe Apple is ahead of its time with a very expensive product, but in the end virtual or augmented reality glasses are a product that will reach almost every home, just like a smartphone, but it may take a good few years. Meanwhile, the network enjoys laughing at the look that the glasses create and their weight.
Okay this won’t stand the test of time pic.twitter.com/GpUKTzTfMc
— Shay Segal (@shaysegal) January 17, 2024
Upcoming Apple Vision Pro accessory. pic.twitter.com/Qokzj7RJNF
— Andrew Manganelli (@AndyManganelli) January 16, 2024
getting ready for my apple vision pro pic.twitter.com/UsAIb4PyBT
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) January 16, 2024
What’s up with the bent ears that looks extremely uncomfortable pic.twitter.com/zbccIP8LV3
— Ostyn Hyss (@ostynhyss) January 16, 2024
Did you find a language mistake?
#minutes #started #feel #pain