The new Vision Pro by Apple is ugly tech that no one should buy as advertised.
It looks awful, and beyond geeky. All the rich people will buy one to watch their entertainment in style, but who cares? Would anyone prefer to work on a virtual computer with a huge thing on their face? Nu-uh. As it’s being advertised right now, it will flare up and be a ritzy novelty in a year.
I want one…need one. You see, people are idiots. They see the glossy entertainment, wiz-bang virtual computer, and want one, mostly to impress their friends. They don’t see what it is good for, or in the right programmers hands, how it could be the first step in making life better for the user, not just more entertained. It’s ability to provide the user with opening up their world and how it is made.
Imagine: Put on the headset, turn it on, and look around your room. Oh, a desk. How would I put that together, or how is it made? My app would let you click on anything that you see that you want to know more about. A tap and stretch motion will pull the components of the object apart. Go ahead, walk around the parts and examine them close up. Tap on that interesting cup and see its origin story. Walk up to a painting to hear an explanation of how the painter made the particular strokes that are in view. Pick up your guitar and see a virtual hand playing the correct way for your song. Play any other instrument and see a visual you playing it correctly as you look down at your instrument.
Now go outside (hopefully where people won’t see you in your idiot gear) and open the hood of your car to fix it. The tapped on part of the engine shows the dis-assembly steps in front of you in 3d as you work. No need to look at a YouTube video with one hand while working. Need more info on a part or need to order one? Tap to bring up more info. Hanging a picture on the wall? See exactly where every stud is in the walls, a map of all the electrical, etc.
This is what the Vision Pro is good for. Augmenting your world to know more about everything in detail, and how to fix it, order it, get info on it.
The Vision Pro is a jack ass lame new device as advertised. The world needs to get smarter advertisers.
Yes, it looks lame. This is where Meta is doing it right. They are starting with the decent looking platform of RayBan sunglasses and limiting its capabilities to just what matters: Augmented Reality (AR). The software is still a bit rudimentary, but they are improving it. When their AR gets to the Vision Pro level (if possible), they will rule this space.
