Apple CEO Tim Cook Uses Vision Pro Every Day

[subjonas]

If someone tried to talk to me though one of those, I would walk right out.

Why do you think it’s so offensive to you? Is it because you want to know you have their attention and can read their expressions? Or just because they look too ridiculous and mocking like they’re wearing a clown nose?
If the former, EyeSight reportedly helps a great deal with that but also reportedly it can be difficult to see, so hopefully that will improve.
If the latter, EyeSight reportedly contributes to the problem, but I’d say only for now because you know, “ridiculous” things eventually look normal if you see them enough (eg. big phones). But hopefully it will improve aesthetically.

 

[falkon-engine]

Wish he used a Mac every day.

And the settings app specifically my goodness the one in Monterey and prior iterations was much better.

 

[UltimaKilo]

Albeit expensive and with a small number of use scenarios at present, it is a first generation device that explores a different way of interacting with a computer. And for a first gen device it is impressive. What they learned from building this, it will help them to improve the product to arrive at what is a device many more people can afford and use.

The first Mac cost close to 7500 US$ in today's money, and I am pretty sure that exactly the same arguments put forth here to talk down the Vision Pro where brought up back then. It is too expensive, it has little use scenarios, etc. And yet, here we are, chatting on a website called macrumors.

Except, it feels like a demo product, not something ready to launch. It’s way too heavy, the FOV is too restrictive and the refresh rate is not good enough for long sessions.

The fact that the tech does not quite yet exist for this to be a mainstream product, and nothing is in the pipeline for the next 2-4 years that will change that.

It’s a product that is far, far from reaching maturity, so I’ll take another glance at it around 2027/2028.

 

[flottenheimer]

Loooooong nose.

 

[mazz0]

What about iOS (iPhone Pro)? Or no OS (Airpod Pro)?

Yeah, I agree those names are silly too, but at least the form factor of those devices is the limiting factor - it's not like they're being held back from achieving their pro potential by the OS like the iPad Pro is.

 

[joelypolly]

Except, it feels like a demo product, not something ready to launch. It’s way too heavy, the FOV is too restrictive and the refresh rate is not good enough for long sessions.

The fact that the tech does not quite yet exist for this to be a mainstream product, and nothing is in the pipeline for the next 2-4 years that will change that.

It’s a product that is far, far from reaching maturity, so I’ll take another glance at it around 2027/2028.

It's a first generation product which comes with the tradeoffs of being a first generation product but I'd argue that it is good enough to get buyers and at least understand what people value. 3,500 might feel like a lot of money but there are people like myself that can take a gamble and Apple needs to justify a level of investment as a business. If they continue to push at the edge of what is possible with display technology, optics, and realtime capable silicon I don't expect it become cheap for a few generations yet since there are limited companies buying in those space compared to smartphone components.

Apple has at least found a few use cases around movie watching, some interactive gaming, AR spaces for engineering, and screen mirroring that customers want today. Next really comes to what they can do to remove and still maintain the same level of expect quality/feature set. I'd expect that in the next 6 years there will be a cheaper model around the 1,500~1,799 mark but probably not much cheaper than that.

 

[UltimaKilo]

It's a first generation product which comes with the tradeoffs of being a first generation product but I'd argue that it is good enough to get buyers and at least understand what people value. 3,500 might feel like a lot of money but there are people like myself that can take a gamble and Apple needs to justify a level of investment as a business. If they continue to push at the edge of what is possible with display technology, optics, and realtime capable silicon I don't expect it become cheap for a few generations yet since there are limited companies buying in those space compared to smartphone components.

Apple has at least found a few use cases around movie watching, some interactive gaming, AR spaces for engineering, and screen mirroring that customers want today. Next really comes to what they can do to remove and still maintain the same level of expect quality/feature set. I'd expect that in the next 6 years there will be a cheaper model around the 1,500~1,799 mark but probably not much cheaper than that.

It’s more about the tech, capabilities and comfort of the product than price, at the moment. When pass-through AR becomes a reality (hopefully a breakthrough can happen before 2030) and the form factor can get to under 200 grams with a nice FOV and the semiconductors powerful and efficient enough to power all this exists, it will be a hit. However, we may be nearly a decade away from that.

 

[krspkbl]

I doubt he does. I want proof. Otherwise, to me this is just the CEO trying to sell his new product. He's not going to come out and say I hardly use it or only use it every other day.

And he can afford to buy the thing... Not many people have or are willing to pay £3,500 for a 1st gen product that is unproven. I'd buy one maybe if it was reasonably priced but at the price it's a solid nope.

 

[Lioness~]

If he don't use it everyday, it's not a good product for him.

I use all my Apple products every day, if I am at home, except my Homepods/minis.
If I am elsewhere, I use naturally what is easy to bring, so maybe not the MacStudio and the ASD.

 

[HeThatShallNotBeNamed]

Makes sense. No doubt Cook takes a look at new apps/movies/etc. as they are developed.

Lies!!!!