Hands on With Apple’s Vision Pro: The Opposite of Disappearing
Hands on With Apple’s Vision Pro: The Opposite of Disappearing The mixed-reality headset is the company’s most surprising product in years. Is that a good thing? APPLE’S LONG-AWAITED MIXED-REALITY headset, the Vision Pro, is here. Or not yet here, but announced. In a crescendoed moment of its software conference keynote this morning, Apple executives revealed a pair of smart goggles that portend a post-iPhone world. There’s Apple again, taking a wait-and-see approach. There’s Apple, taking aim at Meta. There’s Apple taking over … your face. I had a hands-on (heads-on?) demo of the Vision Pro headset earlier today, in a building constructed on Apple’s campus specifically to house meetings about this new product. Apple executives declined to go on the record during the demo and subsequent briefing, but it was clear that Apple views Vision Pro as a spatial computing platform, not a singular device. Its standout feature—the ability to adjust the immersion level of your virtual environm...