That’s fair, but relatively little of the Vision Pro demo seemed to involve interacting with other people online, just the FaceTime example. There, the Vision Pro users are represented by an avatar, not even a direct image. I’ll be very curious if it avoids the uncanny valley.
Well, actually, I do. As a runner, I find it off-putting when you can’t communicate with someone near you because they have AirPods in. I sometimes say “Hi!” a little loudly to see if I can make them startle. It’s like in Star Trek when the characters wander around a Borg ship and get ignored completely.
Tonya was telling me that at Cornell, well over half the students are looking at their phones, often with earbuds in, while walking around campus.
Apple was very careful not to show a Vision Pro being used anywhere but in a clean, constrained indoor space. Just wait until you step on a Lego barefoot while using one. Someone mentioned on the MacAdmins Slack that all the actors looked like rich people in dystopian science fiction movies.
As I noted above, the Vision Pro seems largely about replacing screens. Apple said you could put your Mac screen into it and get a 4K display, which sounds good on the face of it, but I’m looking at a pair of 27-inch screens right now (one of which is a 5K display), so one 4K display is a distinct step backward. And putting it on (taking off my glasses first) is going to be a lot harder than pulling my iPhone out of my pocket, so it’s going to have trouble competing with that screen too.
But heck yes, I want to try one. 