Here's What Tim Cook Looks Like Wearing Apple Vision Pro

[Tito360]

Is the thing even plugged in or did he just do a really good job of tucking that cable behind his back?

Edit: Thanks to others, I can see it in the first photo now. It does not look as bright white as the ones in ads and review videos and really blends in to the yellow paint on the wall. They really are trying to minimize the look of that cable.

Why does it need a wire ?

 

[cateye]

To criticize it today (among other things without ever having tried it) is very easy but completely short-sighted in my opinion.

On the contrary. All we have today is the product that is in front of us. We don't buy the future, we buy the now. That's what our money goes toward. I didn't buy an M1 Pro MacBook Pro because I thought at some point there might be an M3 that was better in some hard to define respect. I bought it because the M1 Pro did what I needed it to do at a fair price.

The AVP may portend a future rich in accessory devices strapped to our eyes, our ears, our mouth, our butts, wherever. And when that future arrives, we can evaluate those future versions and products on their own merits, same as we're evaluating the AVP as it exists, here and today.

 

[kiensoy]

perfectly shot from the front so you don’t see how huge it looks with the light seal from the side

 

[dwaltwhit]

When many reviewers like this one, say they were sceptical but are “blown away” by the experience, there must be something to it. I believe this is a glimpse into the future of personal computers/media devices. Also loved the fish tank anecdote.

Every new innovation is met with scoffs. Some rightfully so. I hope this one is not one of them.

 

[imtoretto]

I freaking guarantee you all that when Tim Cook was just alone in his office playing with AVP, he did went to a porn site to try to see if it works LOL. Come on ya’ll…… LMAO

 

[dwaltwhit]

On the contrary. All we have today is the product that is in front of us. We don't buy the future, we buy the now. That's what our money goes toward. I didn't buy an M1 Pro MacBook Pro because I thought at some point there might be an M3 that was better in some hard to define respect. I bought it because the M1 Pro did what I needed it to do at a fair price.

The AVP may portend a future rich in accessory devices strapped to our eyes, our ears, our mouth, our butts, wherever. And when that future arrives, we can evaluate those future versions and products on their own merits, same as we're evaluating the AVP as it exists, here and today.

I agree with both you and the person you responded to. I think that often criticism is viewed as a negative. Maybe a more nuanced word would be critique? Or feedback? How can something improve without honest assessment and evaluation. People that write this product off as being dumb or ugly or "dead on arrival" based on the initial form not appealing to them are short sighted, but more honest analyses are how this product is refined.

 

[G5isAlive]

You're inventing your own reality. MacRumors, and sites like it, were about rumors and conjecture. As a result, the front page articles have always been a bit of give and take, debate about the veracity of given rumors, and the form that future products would take, their strengths and weaknesses.

The forums are different. There's debate going on in there too, like anywhere on the internet, but a lot more of it is informational and help-based.

No you are making my point for me when I say now people think their opinions count as facts. and it doesnt matter if you are right or wrong as long as you can be dismissive. Or maybe you are just new to MR. They run a fair number of front page articles that are pure fact. actually just now, as I scroll through the front page there are 17 articles, only two of which might be construed as rumors. The overwhelming majority are reporting on released news, like Macs being obsoleted, or prices on sale, or software released. 88% of today's front pages are FACTS not rumors. And maybe thats the problem, when confronted with facts people feel they need to give their opinion.

But granted, some of the front page articles are rumors open for speculation, but there is helpful speculation, and then there are just stupid opinions. Like what looks cool. Who cares. But whether a picture of a USB C cord suggests there maybe a way to hardwire information in and out of the APV, now that is interesting and leaves room for a technical discussion.

 

[MrENGLISH]

...and again later perhaps to something like contact lenses.

I will be rolling in my grave when that day comes.

 

[cateye]

The overwhelming majority are reporting on released news, like Macs being obsoleted, or prices on sale, or software released. 88% of today's front pages are FACTS not rumors. And maybe thats the problem, when confronted with facts people feel they need to give their opinion.

Perhaps you're new to the internet. What do you think the comments after the articles are for exactly, then? People sharing opinions, reactions, thoughts, and ideas. Some are going to be data-based, some are going to be opinions. Some of those opinions will be criticisms.

If you never read beyond the article, you will get all the information you supposedly crave. And everyone else can continue to have the conversations they've always had. Or hang out in the forums! The forums here on MR are really quite great, I've gotten help or explanations on a bunch of highly technical things. Everyone wins?

 

[cateye]

People that write this product off as being dumb or ugly or "dead on arrival" based on the initial form not appealing to them are short sighted, but more honest analyses are how this product is refined.

There are all manner of levels to criticism, and there's a point where off the cuff reactions become repetitive. But the alternate is not a discussion, it's a debate, along with all the structural baggage that entails. And realistically, the comments exist to create the traffic MacRumors needs to sell ads. The more controversy, the more arguing, the better for MR's bottom line. To pretend otherwise is not realistic.

 

[sdz]

Who is that?

 

[citysnaps]

"When a Wise Man Points at the Moon, The Fool Looks at the Finger." What is not clear to so many commenters is that this is just the very first of a new generation of devices that in the next future will lead us to smart glasses and again later perhaps to something like contact lenses. To criticize it today (among other things without ever having tried it) is very easy but completely short-sighted in my opinion.

Well said. Sadly that's now always the case here on new product introductions. Just a lot of inane juvenile comments about how someone looks or dresses. And next to nothing about the tech and how it can be used, with imaginations and curiosity safely sequestered away in a drawer.

Instead there's just a bunch of noise accompanied with the requisite idolization of and fealty towards SJ to let others know how much better Apple was in the good old days. Even though Jobs' product introductions were greeted with the same negative reactions. Some things never change.

 

[Apathist]

View attachment 2343913Who is that?

Bobby Kennedy, I think.

 

[twolf2919]

Except maybe not put a stupid display and glass on the front, pick lighter materials, replace motors that adjust the lenses to your eye distance once (!) with gears,… And that‘s not even talking about making an external battery, but not putting the computer part in the external enclosement and make it modular. It‘s obviously heavy by design, but it didn‘t have to be.

That's my observtion too - if they're gonna have this stupid dongle + battery, why not put all the rest of the smarts there as well?

My original guess for Apple's next AR product was light glasses with a wireless connection to an iPhone that did all the heavy computational lifting. Everyone already has such a powerful computer in their pocket - it would make perfect sense to use it to drive the AR glasses.

 

[Jamacfer]

On the contrary. All we have today is the product that is in front of us. We don't buy the future, we buy the now. That's what our money goes toward. I didn't buy an M1 Pro MacBook Pro because I thought at some point there might be an M3 that was better in some hard to define respect. I bought it because the M1 Pro did what I needed it to do at a fair price.

The AVP may portend a future rich in accessory devices strapped to our eyes, our ears, our mouth, our butts, wherever. And when that future arrives, we can evaluate those future versions and products on their own merits, same as we're evaluating the AVP as it exists, here and today.

There are those who criticize rationally and those who criticize only to mock. Moreover, one may decide not to buy this device because it is still immature or expensive (understandable) but it would also be useful to glimpse its great potential and not criticize it out of hand. Those who are a few years older will remember the criticism about the first iPhone and then...Among other things, everyone complaining that there is no more innovation that every year they offer us the same products and then when we are faced with something new everyone criticizes. Habit is the worst enemy of so many, but get over it wearables and augmented and virtual reality are here to stay.

 

[Harry Haller]

Poor Steve Jobs, rolling in his grave.

There is no rolling in Nirvana.

 

[G5isAlive]

Perhaps you're new to the internet. What do you think the comments after the articles are for exactly, then? People sharing opinions, reactions, thoughts, and ideas. Some are going to be data-based, some are going to be opinions. Some of those opinions will be criticisms.

If you never read beyond the article, you will get all the information you supposedly crave. And everyone else can continue to have the conversations they've always had. Or hang out in the forums! The forums here on MR are really quite great, I've gotten help or explanations on a bunch of highly technical things. Everyone wins?

Funny. What I am new to is the sense of entitlement people give their opinions on all matters. So you are moving the goal posts on your argument. first you argue front page articles are all rumors, now when presented with the facts that actually only 12% of them today are even close to rumors, you want to change the topic to just the comments.

I have already answered what I prefer in a comment. Something that conveys information useful to both the commentator and the reader. What you think is cool or not just isnt that useful. Not exactly a soup question. If you know the reference.

The truth is there can be useful comments. Most just aren't especially on this topic. So I will read on. Thanks.

 

[cateye]

Funny. What I am new to is the sense of entitlement people give their opinions on all matters. So you are moving the goal posts on your argument. first you argue front page articles are all rumors, now when presented with the facts that actually only 12% of them today are even close to rumors, you want to change the topic to just the comments.

You are the one who, in your original message, threw back to some seminal point in MacRumors' history where there wasn't all this "opinion," as you put it. I was responding that MacRumors has always been about sharing opinions and reactions. If anything, as rumors have become less frequent (and to be honest, less interesting—oh boy, new watch bands! 😐 ) the overall tenor has moved exactly in the direction you apparently want: we are reacting to things that exist in reality rather than only things that exist in potential, so the conversations have naturally become more structural.

Sure, that some of those opinions might be coarse rather than intelligent, is... well, human nature. I'm not exactly sure what you expect from people's behavior on an anonymous online forum. You're not being realistic in imagining that somehow people have never had gut or from-the-hip reactions to things, especially in the front page comments. I brought up the separate, topical MacRumors forums as a counterpoint. They are, in many ways, a natural antidote to the faster moving, looser front page comments.

 

[tridley68]

I don't notice anything different .

 

[Timo_Existencia]

Normal as in someone’s face looking like a face rather than a blacked-out scuba mask with creepy computer eyes peering out.

Do you judge scuba divers in this same manner?

 

[G5isAlive]

You are the one who, in your original message, threw back to some seminal point in MacRumors' history where there wasn't all this "opinion," as you put it. I was responding that MacRumors has always been about sharing opinions and reactions. If anything, as rumors have become less frequent (and to be honest, less interesting—oh boy, new watch bands! 😐 ) the overall tenor has moved exactly in the direction you apparently want: More of a discussion about things that actually exist than raw exchanges about some fantasy product that may or may not exist.

It has nothing to do with a sense of entitlement. This is what MacRumors is for. That you might not like some of those opinions, and that some of them might be coarse rather than intelligent, is... well, human nature. I'm not exactly sure what you expect from people's behavior on an anonymous forum. You're not being realistic or honest in imagining that somehow people have never had gut or from-the-hip reactions to things.

I am sorry, when did you buy MR to be able to say definitively what its for?

But I understand why you are confused on what I am saying. Look past the lowest common denominator and look for what is not obvious but subtle behind the scenes. Look for something of substance.

We agree on one thing, the rumors used to be better. but maybe thats because the industry on a whole is maturing.

anyway, tag, I am out of this. wasted enough of my time and yours. and MR's.

 

[cateye]

anyway, tag, I am out of this. wasted enough of my time and yours. and MR's.

All good. Appreciate the back and forth. Peace.

 

[Johnstrass2]

alrighty then, all those who repeated over and over, "there aren't even any pictures of Tim Cook wearing it" you will need to find a new drum. Was it coincidence the first one is a huge marketing ploy? Tim may not be anyone's hero, but turns out he is almost as slick as Steve in marketing.

This product is now officially dead on arrival.


This reminds me of when the Segway scooter came out. Instead of having somebody who was really cool at the time, like Puff Daddy was, they had Bill Gates driving went around. The nerd factor was screaming so loudly that no self-respecting person except for a mall cop would get on it

So now we have an old nerdy white guy wearing this big clunky thing on his face.…

 

[Johnstrass2]

Breaking: CEO of technology company says he uses latest product (“prawduct”, probably) to consume media from same company in breathless article.

Interestingly, he uses it for media consumption, not AR (he mentions productivity generically, with no specifics), having to watch on the ceiling to mitigate the weight of the device.

This product is now officially dead on arrival.


This reminds me of when the Segway scooter came out. Instead of having somebody who was really cool at the time, like Puff Daddy was, they had Bill Gates driving went around. The nerd factor was screaming so loudly that no self-respecting person except for a mall cop would get on it

So now we have an old nerdy white guy wearing this big clunky thing on his face.…

 

[klasma]

"When a Wise Man Points at the Moon, The Fool Looks at the Finger." What is not clear to so many commenters is that this is just the very first of a new generation of devices that in the next future will lead us to smart glasses and again later perhaps to something like contact lenses. To criticize it today (among other things without ever having tried it) is very easy but completely short-sighted in my opinion.

The thing is, the AVP doesn’t solve any of the technical issues that prevents us from building true-AR smart glasses and contact lenses. Apple also didn’t create this vision of the future, it’s been there since the 90s. So what’s the point? This is an incrementally better version of the Quest, but also worse for gaming and exercising, and very expensive. To repeat, it doesn’t solve any of the fundamental issues that existing VR headsets exhibit.