Apple Vision Pro

At times, using Apple Vision Pro feels like using an early prototype version of what everyone will have in the future. But it is in equal measure frustrating, limiting, and outside of watching 2D or 3D videos there isn’t much you can do with it you can’t do faster with the Apple devices you already own. Even early adopters can wait for some big software updates and a more mature app library, but most should wait for the next version or the one after that.

At times, using Apple Vision Pro feels like using an early prototype version of what everyone will have in the future. But it is in equal measure frustrating, limiting, and outside of watching 2D or 3D videos there isn’t much you can do with it you can’t do faster with the Apple devices you already own. Even early adopters can wait for some big software updates and a more mature app library, but most should wait for the next version or the one after that.

The Apple Vision Pro headset is a marvel of AR/VR technology with an intuitive interface, a groundbreaking control system, and one huge caveat: You probably can't afford it.

The Vision Pro is an ambitious first step into the world of spatial computing, with the best displays and AR integration we’ve ever seen. But it’s also clearly a beta product aimed at developers.

The Vision Pro is an astounding product. It’s the sort of first-generation device only Apple can really make, from the incredible display and passthrough engineering, to the use of the whole ecosystem to make it so seamlessly useful, to even getting everyone to pretty much ignore the whole external battery situation.

The Apple Vision Pro is a truly amazing product that delivers futuristic eye- and hand-tracking interface along with breathtaking 3D video and truly impressive AR apps. It’s also a magical way to extend your Mac. But there’s some early performance bugs that need to be worked out, the battery can get in the way, and Digital Persona is a bit creepy and needs work.

I'll still use my laptop, phone and iPad as my main computers for now, but I imagine a future version of Vision Pro as something that could swallow them all up someday. Not today. But I do feel, right now, that I want to dive back in.