Both an immersive digital media viewer and a device to transport you to other places, the Apple Vision Pro is an impressive debut that most people will likely skip.
, Apple’s Vision Pro headset is finally making its way to Australia. And while the astronomical price and reticence over headsets in general may make this a niche product at, this is in many ways a ground-breaking device that may preview the future of personal entertainment, distributed work and long-distance socialising.
Options are there for gaming, work and hangouts too but, for any use beyond just having a huge virtual screen, some first-gen weirdness and caveats do tend to appear.Your first impression of the Vision Pro experience will actually occur before you get it in your hands because there’s a whole rigmarole involved in achieving a custom fit.
With no included controllers to speak of, you operate the headset mainly by looking with your eyes and “clicking” by tapping your thumb and forefinger together. Vision Pro has sensors to detect this gesture essentially anywhere in front of your body, and out of the box I’d say it worked about 80 per cent of the time.
The potential is there for fully immersive, interactive animated stories as well, though there currently aren’t many. A brief dinosaur experience is included on the headset, and Disney also has a technologically complex but narratively light VR tale inThe headset seems ideal for watching sports, with apps from the NBA, PGA and MLB allowing you to set up multiple screens to watch simultaneous games, as well as dig into data and visualisations.
This isn’t a problem with Mac, however, which can output to a Vision Pro window, meaning you can have one big central screen with all your usual work surrounded by other windows of Vision native apps. I operated like this for half a day and it worked fine, but I’m unsure it added enough to my specific workflow to be worth the gradually building weight and eye strain. Still, when you have the headset on for a work task that needs it, it’s nice to also have easy access to your Mac.
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