What's wrong with the Apple Vision Pro

Business Insider

We demo the new $3,500 Apple Vision Pro. Here's why these tech goggles could be the future of computing — but may not be worth the price.

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00:00 So we've been playing around with the Apple Vision Pro and learning a few things about it.

00:05 And what we've learned is...

00:07 Basically, it's a great way to mix your virtual reality with your real reality, pretty much.

00:13 You can have all of your apps like I have right now, a browser tab open,

00:18 about two inches away from your face while you're on the New York City street.

00:22 And with the turn of this dial at the top, the crown dial, everyone kind of disappears.

00:27 And I'm now on a sand dune with Twitter pulled up in my background.

00:30 I wish I was there.

00:33 It looks warmer here where I am.

00:35 And now we're back.

00:37 Hi, Katie.

00:38 Oh, hello.

00:39 Are you like worried you're going to like trip on the curb up here?

00:41 Should I be like, "Watch out, there's a curb."

00:43 So I can't really see my feet right now.

00:44 Oh my gosh, there's a car.

00:48 Did you see that car?

00:49 No, I did not.

00:50 Yeah.

00:52 There's a car turning like right there.

00:54 I know, I have to like fully turn like...

00:57 I know, I'm like, I have to...

01:00 You're not seeing everything, right?

01:01 It's a bit limited, yeah.

01:02 Okay.

01:02 It's a bit limited.

01:03 See, now I'm using it and I have a browser open of people passing through Twitter right now.

01:08 We got the green light now, we can walk.

01:10 We can walk.

01:13 Great.

01:14 I'm Katie Nutopolis.

01:23 I'm a correspondent here at Business Insider.

01:25 I'm with Jordan Hart, a trending technology reporter.

01:29 And we're here to talk about the Apple Vision Pro.

01:32 Yeah, let's do it.

01:36 Oh, your thing went blue.

01:37 You're looking at like an Apple's display of my eyes.

01:40 They're tracking my eye movements.

01:42 They're tracking my hand gestures.

01:43 Your eyes are like the cursor here.

01:45 So like what I look at is what's kind of highlighted for me to select.

01:48 And with the click of my fingers like this, I can select it.

01:52 This thing is jammed pack with 12 cameras, 6 microphones.

01:55 So it is not missing a beat here.

01:57 Some of my favorite features.

01:58 I'm a movie watcher.

02:00 I'm a show binger.

02:01 It's a tough one for me because I'm a social movie watcher as well.

02:04 You know, I want to comment to my friends about it and like we're all watching the same thing.

02:07 So that part was a little bit isolating and I would also say working in it, you know,

02:12 it's a little bit sci-fi to think about working through the Vision Pro all day long.

02:16 Yeah, but it's pretty convenient to have all of my windows and whatnot that I need

02:21 or want to be looking at all day pulled up right here next to me.

02:25 You know, it really refined my work from home experience.

02:29 Like what were things that were fun or useful for it other than watching movies and doing work?

02:36 Yeah, so I did cooking it at home.

02:39 So that was really cool to have like my timers kind of floating off to one side,

02:42 my playlist pulled up and then like my text messages pulled up.

02:46 While I was still able to see my hands and see what I was doing.

02:50 It was a little bit difficult to kind of like focus outside of the headset on like those fine motor skill tasks,

02:56 like cutting something. I want to look at my hands and look at what I'm doing.

02:59 It was kind of hard to like focus on the real world and like kind of get out of the virtual a little bit.

03:06 And you don't have to like touch your iPhone or an iPad with like a dirty, raw chicken hand.

03:11 That's a really good point.

03:13 I'm definitely the person who's like always like rinsing my hands after I touch like everything in the kitchen.

03:17 I mean, Apple really thought of like the spatial computing of it all.

03:20 So why is Apple selling this and like what is spatial computing?

03:26 Here is like a chance to blend in the things you love about your iPhone,

03:32 your iPad, your Mac into this headset and it kind of combines those things and combines it with the world around you.

03:40 And that's kind of what spatial computing is as well.

03:42 But it's also, you know, helping me look at you and showing me. Hello.

03:48 Right now, like you're right next to my Apple window.

03:53 I kind of wish that we both had them and we could be seen the same screen together.

03:59 That would be really cool. So that we could be in like dual VR.

04:01 The ultimate like dream, right, is to be able to like see the world through somebody else's eyes.

04:06 Like someone puts it on and you can just be like watching their thing from your goggles sitting in your house

04:11 and like someone else is out there in the world doing something interesting.

04:14 That's actually really pathetic when I'm saying that.

04:17 No, I get it. I understand.

04:18 Like I just want to sit at home and someone else does something interesting. That's sad.

04:23 What's your phone number?

04:25 There we go.

04:29 It looks so weird.

04:36 Yeah, no, I can imagine.

04:38 It's like I'm turned into a ghost.

04:40 I'm a little bit, you know, a little bit aged on here.

04:44 That's the first thing I noticed.

04:47 You do it like weirdly. You look 20 years older.

04:52 The positive thing is like I can see you just fine.

04:55 You look normal. This is like regular face time.

04:57 You're floating in my sea of windows, but you're you and I'm, you know, a ghostly,

05:04 hopefully slightly okay looking version of myself.

05:10 What do you think that the Vision Pro is missing right now?

05:13 For me, it's all about the apps. I need YouTube. I need Netflix.

05:17 I would predict that they're waiting to see about the hype

05:20 and about the drive of people to get this Vision Pro before they really invest in their apps,

05:26 but it's kind of a tough situation because those are things that I need the Vision Pro to have

05:31 if I'm going to reach for the Vision Pro instead of other pieces of technology that already exist.

05:37 All right, I'm gonna hang up on you.

05:41 Go for it. I'd like let me float off into the, do you see my floating hands?

05:45 Wait, are you seeing my hands? Oh, there they are.

05:49 There they are. Oh my God.

05:52 They look so bad. I'm like, I'm like worse than a sim right now.

05:59 I'm like an emoji. So the battery life, how is it?

06:04 So this battery pack here, it connects right here into the Vision Pro.

06:09 If you have it off, the Vision Pro is off. You'll put it on and just see nothing, see black.

06:13 And then when you connect the battery pack, that's when it comes to life.

06:18 You definitely have to have it on. And it's about like two hours or so, two and a half hours of active use.

06:23 You can use it while it's plugged in. So the battery pack here has a charger port.

06:27 You plug in the charger to the wall and you can, it'll be probably close to the wall a little bit,

06:31 but you can sit and still use it. Is the weight really heavy?

06:35 It's about the same as that iPad Pro, the 12 inch one.

06:39 This is an iPad, you know, on my face, you know, and it's a bit cumbersome after a while.

06:45 I've had a bit of like headaches when I first was wearing it.

06:48 It's like an eye workout, you know, you're really got to focus, you know,

06:50 I can't really like mindlessly scroll like I would on my laptop with a trackpad.

06:56 You don't think you could do like your full eight hour workday in this thing? Probably not.

07:01 Or like it would be uncomfortable. I might need a nap at lunchtime probably to like rest my eyes, recharge.

07:06 They definitely should work on making it lighter if they want people to be using this for hours on end.

07:11 Do you think that wearing that is like isolating?

07:14 When I'm in the headset, it is a little bit isolating.

07:17 People can't see what I'm seeing and share the experience with me.

07:20 It's kind of like I have to do it on my own. You know, it's distracting in conversation.

07:24 It's definitely not as social of a device as I would want for my daily life.

07:33 I've been hearing that there's actually been quite a few people who were really excited by the headset.

07:39 I actually know a guy who's super passionate about all Apple products,

07:44 so excited to get this and then tried it out for a while and decided actually I'm going to return it.

07:51 I could see the average consumer returning it only because like for me,

07:55 I was wowed by it in the first 48 hours. But for me, I was kind of like after a week, I've done it all on it.

08:01 The possibilities aren't endless in the Asian Pro, I would say.

08:05 So I do think big tech companies are coming out with these kind of AR, VR, spatial computing things right now.

08:12 I think it pays to be on the new frontier.

08:15 I think these big tech companies, you know, are looking for ways to kind of plant their flag on the moon here

08:20 and really have a real expertise in the area.

08:25 If it catches on and people love it and you're like the godfather of the VR headset, then you know, you've won.

08:33 What do you think this is meant to replace?

08:35 I think that's the cool thing about it is it's like not meant to replace anything,

08:38 but it's also meant to replace everything at the same time because it has the familiarity of an iPhone or an iPad,

08:45 but it's a completely different way of experiencing those same apps that you know and love.

08:50 So you've had it now for a week and you've been testing it and using it.

08:54 What's your verdict?

08:56 I think Apple is onto something here.

08:59 Do I think it's ready for that $3,500 price tag for people to run out and go grab it right now?

09:05 Probably not.

09:06 What's that thing about like a dollar for every use you get out of it or something people do for budgeting?

09:10 This, I don't know if I'm going to use this 3,500 times.

09:13 Yeah, I feel like for that price point I needed to wash my dishes, be my computer, do my laundry.

09:20 Do my taxes.

09:21 Drive me around.

09:23 But this is something people were probably saying about you know computers and whatnot at one point.

09:27 You know, knowing Apple, they're going to keep working on it.

09:30 They're going to keep refining it and you know, who knows one day maybe we'll all be existing in the Vision Pro world.

09:36 Okay.

09:38 Jordan, I do have a question.

09:40 Yes.

09:40 Can I try it?

09:41 Of course you can, yes.

09:43 Okay.

09:47 I love how you're like physically reacting to it.

09:51 Whoa, okay.

09:54 Okay.

09:55 Oh, help.

09:56 Oh no.

09:57 Oh no.

09:59 It's hard for me.

10:00 I'm like, what are you seeing right now?

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