Apple Vision Pro has been taking the spotlight ever since its announcement, and even more so since its release a few weeks ago. With many hands-on experiences shared, there are now more developments and discoveries in mind-blowing technology. And they point to the possibility of version two.
When the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro was made last year, there was not much developers could do to create apps specifically for it because the hardware itself had not been released yet. Now that developers can lay their hands on it, there has been a rapid increase in the number of apps in the Vision App Store.
The Apple Vision Pro is capable of running many compatible iOS and iPad apps, but it just makes more sense that the spatial apps built for the headset would leverage the specific features of the headset.
Many streaming platforms have made their apps for Vision Pro, including Disney+, Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi, Amazon Prime Video, IMAX, Fubo, Red Bull TV, MUBI, Crunchyroll, and even the popular video content platform Tiktok. For some reason, however, Netflix is holding out with its own app for the headset. For productivity enthusiasts, Slack, Notion, Zoom, Microsoft, and WebEx have also built apps for Vision Pro.
There are a few things that users are already missing in the Apple Vision Pro. Users that have given their reviews have made claims that, as much as it's mind-blowing and a next-gen experience to have the headset on and use it, there are a few things that would be really nice to have considered by Apple to improve on.
Shared Experiences
Be it a virtual cinema where you are watching a movie, a spatial computing space, or anything in the AR/VR headset, you are just going to be in there all by yourself. It may not mean much to most people, but truth be told, it's a whole different thing to experience what you see with another person using another Vision Pro headset.
Just like it would be nice to watch films with someone in a cinema, it would be really cool to be able to be in a virtual cinema with someone as well. If two people have Vision Pro headsets, watching the same film and experiencing the same thing in a virtual environment would be a fantastic addition.
There are two types of shared experiences. You could have two people in the same room with pass-through on (a feature that allows the user to see their environment with the headset on), and then they would see the same object in augmented reality. As they both interact with the object, they both see the transformations in the same room.
The other type of shared experience is having two people with Vision Pro headsets in different places on the planet be in the same virtual environment, seeing the same things, and interacting in the same space.
Location Memory
The Vision Pro does very well with handling the locations of where you put your apps. For example, if you pin a tab or app to a wall in your room, it will remember exactly where it is even if you leave the room and return. That is something really impressive.
When one leaves their home environment, say to work, their setup at home (in Vision Pro) would essentially get disrupted if they opened the same apps (that they pinned at home) at work. And then, users would return home and need to reopen the apps and pin them all over again in their setup. That's not exactly convenient, and it seems like a pretty easy fix that Apple can do.
Colour Representation
The Apple Vision Pro has really impressive numbers for the specifications of its hardware and performance. The pixel density per display of the headset is 3,386. That is 3,386 pixels per inch, and it is responsible for the incredibly sharp resolution it offers. And it shows 92% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut.
The DCI-P3, defined by Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), is a standard in digital cinema that represents the range of colors that can be reproduced in a digital image. It is a measure of how accurately it can display colors. And it has a score of 92%.
What is interesting is that DCI-P3 only has a range of colours that the human eye can see. That means that, no matter how high the number 92 appears, it does not cover the entire range that the human eye can see. And this is really important, as the headset basically replaces the human eyes of its users. The higher the DCI-P3 number can get, the better.
When Vision Pro Version 2?
The Apple Vision Pro was just released, and so it would be rather strange to hear of a second version so soon. The Apple Vision Pro doesn't seem like it will be like most Apple devices that have new versions released every year.
It will take a very long time before we have a new version; that way, there are significant improvements worth paying another huge sum of money for. $3,499 isn't a small price to pay.
What do you think about the Apple Vision Pro? Is it something you can pay such a huge amount of money for?
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