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Here's What Tim Cook Looks Like Wearing Apple Vision Pro
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5 million in when? They can currently only make an estimated 500k per year....
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The Mac was an incremental improvement over the Apple II. The iPhone was an incremental improvement over smartphones.
My point isn't that the AVP will be the next iPhone or Mac. The point is that sometimes the right technology plus the right software changes things forever and takes technology from being ok to essential. The AVP isn't incrementally better...the combination of audio, video, sensors, and software are dramatically better. The software is the most important part and its WAY WAY WAY better than any other headsets. So will it take off with sales at about the level of the mac pro? We will see but apple laid a foundation by getting the software right just like with iPhone and Mac.
It’s ultimately the market who decides if Apple was correct at identifying future trends or not. It wasn’t difficult to imagine twenty years ago that maybe someday we could combine our flip phones and Palm devices (remember those?) into one advanced device that did everything a powerful portable mini computer with a camera and phone built in could possibly do (and then some). A device we would continue to buy again and again over the next few decades. Apple showed the way initially and companies like Samsung/Google began to lead the way with new features that Apple eventually copied. The AVP feels more like a bulky transition product to me. A placeholder for something better to come, something that will look very different from what we have today.
if someone’s social life can be destroyed just by them making a purchase of a technology product, maybe it’s time to get a new social life.
Likewise, if anyone cares about the appearance of“coolness” after they’ve graduated high school, they’re doing life wrong.
Oh, and not to be the obvious one, but the same thing was said about the iPhone, iPad,watch, especially the AirPods.
“ why would you want to have a block on your wrist?”
“ why would you want to have broken q-tips coming out of your ears? That’ll never be accepted in public.”
There were only 200K units to sell due to a Sony display constraint. And they were sold out over a weekend.
The goal was to quickly get those out to developers and early adopters.
Wow. This has strong "Hello Fellow Kids" vibes.
And I thought the Airpods launch dance party gif was peak Tim Cook cringe.
And I thought the Airpods launch dance party gif was peak Tim Cook cringe.
No one has made jokes about the pinching gesture yet?
Wasn't that hand gesture White Supremacist a couple of years ago?
Isn't it also a meme to make one look at ones...you know....?
Wasn't that hand gesture White Supremacist a couple of years ago?
Isn't it also a meme to make one look at ones...you know....?
You cannot compare the Apple Vision Pro to the Vive! Apple Thinks Different. If anyone is going to make it NOT ISOLATING it would be Apple. Apple can make it so those around you with a headset can automatically appear in your Spatial World, that is why I think the Memoji like Persona's exist!
Tim has:
Also, even though he's said he uses an iPad for most of his work, he still has a fairly recent Mac (kind of admitting the iPad can't fully replace it)
- Apple Watch Ultra (with starlight or possibly olive alpine loop)
- iPhone 15 pro max (natural titanium)
- AirPods Pro 2nd gen (they look like the USB-C model)
- Yellow HomePod mini
- Nike killshot 2 leather sneakers
- MacBook Pro 14" (silver, M1/M2/M3 Pro/Max)
- Studio display (you can tell by the hole in the stand)
- Silver iPad with Apple Pencil magnetically attached and Magic Keyboard case. If you look at it in the perspective of the space it looks like the 12.9" Pro. And let's be real, Apple would never show a prototype/preproduction iPad publicly. And if they did, Tim Cook wouldn't be using it (he'd be using something that actually works without glitches).
- And of course, Vision Pro (with solo knit band).
Also, even though he's said he uses an iPad for most of his work, he still has a fairly recent Mac (kind of admitting the iPad can't fully replace it)
I find it charming that he left the pictures/paintings on the ground leaned against the wall
It’s a battle between him and Zuck for most awkward people in tech.
He looks like that kid who never remove his goggles indoors and just wants to wear his new skiing gear even though his parents aren’t taking him to the slopes for another 3 months.
Tim Cook has been finally pictured wearing the Apple Vision Pro headset. The photographs accompany a Vanity Fair article about the device, which leads on the digital cover of the magazine.
This is the first time the Apple CEO has been seen wearing the device since its unveiling at WWDC 2023 in June. Given that Cook is usually keen to model and be seen using Apple devices, particularly during keynote events and speeches, it's interesting that the company appears to have been a little more reticent to take the same approach with Vision Pro, until now.
The article includes interview quotes from Tim Cook, Greg Joswiak, James Cameron, Jon Favreau, and others on their experience with Apple Vision Pro, how the headset was developed, and more. Here are some select quotes from the piece, which was written by Nick Bilton:
You can read the full review on the Vanity Fair website.
Apple Vision Pro starts at $3,499 and launches in the U.S. this Friday, February 2. Apple has said the Vision Pro will launch in additional countries later this year.
Article Link: Here's What Tim Cook Looks Like Wearing Apple Vision Pro
I agree with you, if you want a product that is perfect and has all the problems solved, the AVP is not for you.
But I disagree that it's not solving problems that others are not even attempting to. And that is gesture control without sensors on your fingers or some other physical control. It is going way past what others are even thinking of doing with eye control. These ARE fundamental problems that will have to be solved even for devices that solve the rest (which I assume are weight and transparency? oh, and are cool (rolls eyes) too).
It's also setting the bar for what should be acceptable graphics performance. 1080 p is not as good as 4k. Latency is another problem it tackles. Does it have these solved enough to eliminate the common complaint of users feeling ill with other devices? We don't know yet, but we know its attempting to.
I think it's silly to say the AVP is not advancing the science of what these things should be. But I do agree, for some, that won't be enough. Choice is a great thing.
I think so too. It's a niche device. At worst it'll probably end up like the AppleTV
I really don‘t see an actual problem that this device is supposed to solve. Maybe a problem needs to be created in order for it to solve it.
Are you ISOLATED when sitting at your computer and listening to music on your AirPods/headphones? Of course not. Most people's situational (dare I say "spatial") awareness is not as fragile as you seem to think it is.
It could really help adoption if he wears one to all of his public appearances. You know just instead of his glasses, like a cyborg.
I agree with this Threads post. Apple is positioning VP to be the future of computing whereas VR headsets are more purpose built and you know what they’re for and what they do well. VP is kind of like let’s stick a bunch of cool tech in a product and see if developers/consumers stumble on a use case. Maybe it will be like AW and a few years from now the use case will be clear. But right now it seems more dystopian than the future of anything.
