Apple Demo
Tried on Apple’s new Vision Pro VR headset — here’s what it was like to use this impressive product .
You don’t need to be a real techie to like Apple’s Vision Pro.
Your eyes and hands are doing almost all the work.
I was among few people Friday at the Apple’s store in Metro Washington DC, Pentagon City, Northern Virginia, outside Washington DC. store for the launch of the company’s futuristic head-mounted headset.
Once inside the crowded showroom, I registered for a Vision Pro demonstration — open only to people 13 years and up — which required filling out a detailed questionnaire about my eyesight, given that glasses cannot be worn with the headset.
People who wear glasses must have their prescription measured with a special device manufactured by a third-party and then use optical inserts in the headset to adjust the visuals. I wear contact lens. Simplistic process for the demo.
Here’s what Apple fans — and tech giant’s own workers — have to say about groundbreaking Vision Pro and some of my experience.
When I finally put the visionOS headset on, I had to undergo facial recognition and hand recognition and connect a series of dots by eying them and tapping my thumb and index finger together three times before I was let into the system.
From here on out, most everything was done with my eyes and fingers.
When wanting to go to the menu, all that is necessary was look at the icon, tap index and thumb together and open it, the same goes for photo folders.
With a pinched my fingers together, users are able to move the image in-front around or re-size it.
Each movements was captured by the device’s dozen cameras and five sensors.
Most of the time, keeping my head straight and only move eyes or the headset would reset, which takes up to a couple minutes.
The Vision Pro is equipped with a dozen cameras, five sensors and six microphones.
The light-weight: at 20 ounces, the headset is relatively hefty, and the longer used it, sitting stock-still with the gadget strapped on face, the more I felt a little bulky.
During one of the few times I was able move around was in the panoramic view mode, which allows more freedom.
As part of the demo, a performance by Alicia Keys was shown in the panoramic view, which looked remarkably realistic and close up. Able to watch her sing on one-side and then turn head and see her back-up performers.
The sound was just as impressive as the razor-sharp visuals, giving the sensation that I was actually attending a concert in-person.
Other immersive clips shown during the demo included men playing soccer, a surfer riding a wave and birthday candles being blown out on a cake. Butterfly landing on finger amazing immersive experiences.
At one point, I jumped back in my chair when it seemed like a rhinoceros was charging straight at me!
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