6 Months with the Vision Pro: Was it Worth It? (Real Owner Reviews!) – Video

The reason I wanted to buy the Vision Pro is honestly because I just love any new technology. Apple rarely introduces a new product category, something like an iPhone, an iPad, an Apple, you name it. So this was their next, let’s put it this way, big thing. How they get it. I was watching WW DC in 2023, they started with their one more thing, went through the whole one more thing and then the livestream ended. And my first two thoughts were I have to show this to everyone I know and to show this to everyone I know, I have to have it, it feels like I’ve been reading science fiction and looking at computer setups for half a century and this just feels like this is what we’ve been dreaming of, a system that really immerses you and engages you. I’ve been using smart displays since 2007 in various iterations and I felt like it really married the perfect ideas of form and function and allowed me to explore productivity in a way I had never really considered before. There was just so much hype around it. And I was in a space where I was really excited to try it out and just be one of those early adopters. I didn’t know if I was going to keep it or not, but I was so blown away when I went into the store on opening day to try it out. Close your eyes for a second. Capture, complete my takeaway on facetime Vision Pro calls is a big, no, I mean, the reality is I just don’t think the quality is there. I just think they all look awkward and kind of cringey. I haven’t used the persona feature yet. I just feel like it would be too weird, uh, too different, you know, just distracting from the conversation. If I do use it with someone else who has a Vision Pro, I’m like, oh wow, this is so cool. This is awesome. It’s flown under the radar multiple times to the dismay of literally everyone in the office. Most people who know me and have seen my face a few times are just like, oh wow, that’s an interesting video filter. I think my friends, especially my best friends, can’t take me seriously with it. They want me to go back to my iPad, Mac, iPhone. I probably use my Vision Pro a couple times every couple weeks. I give tours of my city, my little town, where I show people my town through different moments in time by overlaying historical photos on top of newer buildings so they can swipe through them. When I go to work in the morning, I take my Vision Pro. I put it on my head. My job is to kind of manage engineering projects. When parts are released, I usually take the CAD and look at it 1:1 on my desk before we get our hands on it. I use it a lot for entertainment, since I have the Apple Vision Pro, the TV is basically always off unless I have a guest or I want to play video games. I’ve spent some time helping document intentional communities, co-housing neighborhoods, ecovillages. People say, what is that? I do panoramas and immerse people in the environment. This is the kind of tool that I think can really help people get it. And I also love using it for things like freeform. It’s like you go to that freeform board and you draw on it with your finger. It’s really good and collaborative and it’s also really cool to be able to do that. And as a content creator, I also really enjoy editing on it. If you want to get this thing out there, $3,500 to start with is not the place to be to get that price down. But part of the Vision Pro experience is using it with other people who also have a Vision Pro. And so it really needs to be more accessible to the average consumer as someone who wears glasses, the Vision Pro was also kind of a challenge for me, I had to get special lenses in it. And that was really exciting to me. These are the Band Metta glasses with the AI ​​built into them. And I know just the fact that I can gesture with my hand or talk to it is super interesting. So when I think about the future of vision pro, I want something that functions much more like this. I think the only thing that could be improved is the audio experience if you don’t have airpods. The audio pods on the sides of the bands are very good. But it’s hard to use physics to cover distances when you put the apple vision pro on, it can feel like you’re in a pair of binoculars. In fact, you start to forget that a little bit in most cases. But if the field of view were to expand, I think that would make the experience so much more immersive. I’m not ready to have this on all the time, physically and socially. I even went to uh when I had it the first week, to a panel about cyborgs. And these are people who have been writing about this stuff for 50 years. They were not prepared for a cyborg to walk into the room. I think the thing I love most about the vision pro right now is probably the thing I hate most about it. And that’s the exclusivity. Not everyone has one, but I understand that the exclusivity because of the price point might be a little bit too much for people who use the Vision Pro. It feels like I’m stepping into the future in a way that no other product allows me to right now. It’s really, uh, uh, fun to put on and just be in a different world. When the iPad came out, people didn’t really know how they were going to use it and how it would fit into their lives. But there’s just so many different use cases for the Apple Vision Pro and it does certain things really well, when I first got it, um, it was amazing. It was magical. Right. There’s that honeymoon period of technology where it’s just like, oh, this is a cool thing, you don’t really want to think about how much you just spent on it. Um, but over the last few months it’s just slowly gotten better with updates. It’s hard to find anything that I don’t like about it. It’s everything. To me, it’s almost perfect.