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(upbeat music) - All right, so you've seen the unboxing.00:00:03
Now it's time for the breakdown.00:00:05
What is using the Apple
Vision Pro actually like?00:00:13
This is easily one of Apple's
craziest, most radical,00:00:18
possibly dystopian products of all time.00:00:20
And I have a lot of thoughts here,00:00:23
like I've been using it
for about a week now.00:00:25
There are some parts of this thing00:00:26
that are absolutely incredible,00:00:28
and some other parts that feel weird,00:00:30
or borderline unfinished.00:00:33
There are all kinds of new technologies,00:00:34
from a new operating system
to infrared eye tracking00:00:38
to virtually reconstructed
versions of you.00:00:41
I feel like there are so
many actually new things00:00:45
that you have to understand
in order to get a sense00:00:47
of what this headset
actually is and what it does.00:00:49
So I'm gonna break this
down into two parts.00:00:52
This video is all about
using the Vision Pro.00:00:56
It's everything I've
learned from the past week00:00:57
of wearing and getting used to
this thing every single day.00:01:01
But I'm also working
on a more wide ranging,00:01:04
possibly more existential, review video.00:01:07
But let's just start with the more00:01:09
hardware fundamentals, right?00:01:11
Like what is this thing
that I'm holding literally?00:01:14
Apple Vision Pro at its core,00:01:17
well, it is a VR headset.00:01:19
Now, Apple would never say that,00:01:20
and they probably won't like
that I'm saying that word.00:01:23
You know, I made an entire video00:01:24
about why they refuse to use those words,00:01:26
and they're calling it
spatial computing instead.00:01:29
We'll get there.00:01:30
But the truth is it's a
really, really, really high end00:01:33
virtual reality headset.00:01:35
It's something we've seen before, right?00:01:37
It's got displays and lenses and speakers00:01:40
and fans and buttons.00:01:42
And this is a form factor.00:01:44
This is a thing that we have seen before,00:01:46
but before I even turn this thing on,00:01:48
there are clearly several things00:01:49
that are a little
different about this one.00:01:51
So first of all, it's made of metal.00:01:53
Lots of metal and glass
here, which are high quality,00:01:57
but heavy materials, relatively speaking.00:02:00
So there's this precisely
machined aluminum frame00:02:03
around the outside.00:02:04
And yes, those are intakes
for fans at the bottom.00:02:07
And then vents for those fans at the top.00:02:09
On the right side,
there's your digital crown00:02:11
that can be pressed in or turned.00:02:13
And then on the other side is
just a single larger button.00:02:16
So kind of basically the same
two buttons as an Apple Watch.00:02:18
And then when you get
a little further back00:02:20
on this band here, these little pods00:02:22
with downward facing
grills, these are speakers00:02:25
which are pointed straight at your ears,00:02:27
and work surprisingly well.00:02:28
Though of course, it also
means that people around you00:02:32
can hear a little bit
of what you're hearing.00:02:34
There's a little bit of bleed,00:02:35
and I have a lot to say
about spatial audio,00:02:37
so stay tuned for that.00:02:39
But the main event is at the front.00:02:41
There is an enormous piece of glass,00:02:43
which, yes, is very easy
to fingerprint and smudge.00:02:47
And then behind that thing,
there's this outward-facing00:02:49
OLED display and a bunch of
sensors all the way around,00:02:52
outside facing sensors that go forward,00:02:54
sideways, and straight down.00:02:57
And there's depth sensors,
infrared illuminators,00:02:59
lidar scanners, and just
regular old RGB cameras,00:03:03
all being processed by an M2 chip00:03:05
and an R1 chip inside this thing.00:03:07
And then maybe the craziest part,00:03:09
inside the headset, there
are a bunch more sensors00:03:12
facing your eyes, tracking
your eyes in real time,00:03:15
for all the eye control and
everything that comes with that.00:03:18
And also then to display a
representation of your eyes00:03:22
on the outside of the headset.00:03:24
Kinda, we'll get there.00:03:26
But overall, when you put it all together,00:03:28
you get a very well made, very high end,00:03:32
but also pretty heavy
computer to wear on your face.00:03:36
So officially, this headset
with this solo knit band00:03:39
when I weighed it, showed up as 638 grams,00:03:43
which some of you on Twitter
have already pointed out00:03:45
is actually slightly less than
the plastic Meta Quest Pro.00:03:49
But that Quest Pro also
has a lot of battery00:03:52
on the back of your head as
a sort of a counterbalance,00:03:55
so the weight distribution
is very different.00:03:58
Also, the Quest Pro is not
that comfortable anyway.00:04:01
But the point is this,
for Apple, made the choice00:04:04
of taking the battery off of
the headset, which means okay,00:04:09
now there's nothing on
the back of your head,00:04:10
so you can wear it and
lean up against things,00:04:12
and that might be an upside,00:04:14
but that also now means you have to deal00:04:16
with this cable all the time
running up to your head,00:04:19
and the fact that it's
very front weighted now.00:04:22
All of the weight is on
the front of your face.00:04:24
So this is the battery, as
you saw in the unboxing.00:04:26
If you haven't already seen the
unboxing, that just went up.00:04:29
I'll link it below the like button.00:04:30
But this battery is a surprisingly small00:04:32
3,366 milliamp hours.00:04:35
I say surprisingly small
because a normal battery bank00:04:38
of this size, you might
expect to be 10, 15,00:04:41
20,000 milliamp hours.00:04:43
I suspect there's a lot of
heat insulation happening here.00:04:46
But it comes with a
non-removable four foot cable,00:04:49
and a proprietary connector
at the end of the cable00:04:52
that will twist and lock to the headset.00:04:54
And so the lock is really solid.00:04:55
It makes sense that it's
not just straight USB00:04:57
that could get disconnected easily.00:04:58
Once you connect it, it starts glowing,00:05:01
and then it starts booting up.00:05:02
And there's even a little
Apple logo that displays00:05:04
on the outside screen
while it takes, you know,00:05:07
a little under a minute to turn on.00:05:09
So there is no on or off button00:05:10
or switch anywhere on this headset.00:05:12
Maybe kind of like AirPods
Max or something like that.00:05:14
So if you ever take the headset off00:05:16
and put it down, it will
enter a standby mode00:05:19
after some time, but it won't turn off.00:05:21
If you wanna turn it off,
you literally have to twist00:05:24
and unplug the cable.00:05:26
That's the only way to
actually turn the headset off.00:05:28
Now famously already, the battery life00:05:31
with this included
battery, is not super long00:05:34
on this headset.00:05:35
Two to four hours is actually realistic00:05:37
for what you can expect for
just like this built-in battery.00:05:41
But that's also kind of right in line00:05:42
with a lot of other VR headsets.00:05:43
Battery life on VR headsets
is not that great in general.00:05:46
If you do wanna use it longer,
the only way to do that00:05:48
is there's USBC port on the battery,00:05:51
and you have to plug the battery in.00:05:53
So you could plug the
battery into the wall00:05:55
for infinite battery life,00:05:56
or I guess you could plug it into like a,00:05:58
you could daisy chain another
battery into the other pocket00:06:01
or something for even longer life.00:06:02
But yeah, two to four hours.00:06:04
Now at first it seemed weird to me00:06:05
that the port is on the
same side of the battery00:06:08
as the non-removable cable,00:06:09
but I think it's because
they just want you to default00:06:11
to putting this battery in your pocket,00:06:14
probably in your back pocket.00:06:15
So even if it's plugged into the wall,00:06:17
it can still be in your back pocket.00:06:20
You're just gonna want to
get a longer USBC cable.00:06:22
So there are no controllers
that come with this headset.00:06:26
Now it does support other input methods00:06:28
that are like game controllers,
and mouse, and keyboard,00:06:31
and those can be incredibly useful,00:06:32
but by default the primary input method00:06:35
for everyone using the Vision Pro00:06:37
is your eyes and your hands.00:06:40
So the first time you put on this headset,00:06:42
it goes through this calibration process,00:06:45
and it's pretty interesting.00:06:46
So the first time you ever put it on,00:06:48
it first adjusts the
distance between the lenses,00:06:51
physically moving them inside the headset00:06:53
to match the distance between your eyes.00:06:55
Then it does this sort of a hand scan00:06:56
so it understands your hands.00:06:57
And then you go through this process00:06:59
of basically looking at a bunch of dots00:07:01
all the way around the screen,00:07:02
and then tapping your fingers
together to select them.00:07:05
Kind of feels like an
eye test or something.00:07:07
And then you're in.00:07:08
So first thing you're gonna notice00:07:09
is you can actually kind
of put your hands anywhere00:07:11
as long as the headset can see this,00:07:15
just your fingers touching together.00:07:16
So there's a lot of pictures
of people using a headset00:07:19
with their fingers, like
out in front of them,00:07:21
pinching like that.00:07:22
But you actually don't have to do that.00:07:23
It's such a wide angle
because of the sensors00:07:26
facing forward and sideways and down.00:07:28
You can kind of just
rest your hand anywhere,00:07:31
in front of you, in your lap.00:07:32
As long as you pinch like that,00:07:33
it can generally pick it
up, which is impressive.00:07:36
So you're pinching to control anywhere00:07:37
in that 180 degree bubble in front of you.00:07:39
And then the digital
crown, you hit that once,00:07:42
and the app drawer
comes up, pretty simple.00:07:45
Doesn't seem that impressive.00:07:46
But this is actually a peek
at the first really impressive00:07:49
thing about this headset to
me, which is it seems to have00:07:52
incredible spatial positioning lock,00:07:56
and like, it's really hard
to have you appreciate this00:08:00
through a YouTube video.00:08:01
Reviewing VR headsets is hard.00:08:03
But turn around in the room you're in,00:08:05
and picture a wall or a window00:08:08
just appearing locked in place
in 3D space in your room,00:08:13
and no matter how much you move your head,00:08:15
or move around, it stays
exactly kind of floating00:08:18
where it's supposed to be. But when I say floating, I
think you're picturing like a,00:08:21
a soft float, but it's locked,
and that's how it starts.00:08:25
So now you're in Apple's new Vision OS00:08:29
I would describe this as
kind of similar to iPad OS,00:08:33
but way more glassy, and of course00:08:36
with the extra dimension of 3D space.00:08:38
So hitting a digital crown
will always get the app drawer00:08:41
back in front of you, and
then simply look at the icon00:08:45
you want and pinch your fingers together,00:08:46
to select it and open that app.00:08:48
Scrolling is basically as you'd expect,00:08:50
you just kind of pinch
and grab in the air,00:08:53
and then pull as if it's on a string,00:08:55
and physics let you pull
things through the air.00:08:57
It's pretty intuitive, it's
responsive, it's fluid.00:09:01
Sometimes it's kind of bouncy even.00:09:03
I would say the biggest adjustment00:09:05
is only being able to control00:09:07
exactly what you're looking at.00:09:09
And I don't think people realize00:09:10
how often they're controlling things00:09:12
that they're not exactly
looking directly at00:09:14
with other computers and other UIs.00:09:16
But with this, you can look
at the button to select it,00:09:20
and if you look at the
next thing you're gonna do,00:09:22
you're no longer controlling the button.00:09:23
You have to look exactly
where you're trying00:09:25
to interact with things.00:09:26
It takes a few extra brain cycles00:09:28
to remember to always be looking00:09:30
exactly at the thing you're controlling.00:09:32
So when you open a window
of a Vision OS app,00:09:34
like any one of the
default Apple apps here,00:09:37
it locks into place, it's floating there.00:09:39
It kind of looks, again, like an iPad app,00:09:41
but very glassy, like this
frosted glass around the UI00:09:44
sort of lets you see through a little bit00:09:46
to the color behind it.00:09:47
And it even sometimes casts
a shadow on the ground00:09:50
in the correct Z space,
so it really solidifies00:09:53
that it's floating in front of you.00:09:55
All this makes it feel like the window00:09:57
is in the space around you.00:09:59
Then if you look at the
bottom of the window,00:10:01
you get a little bar, you can
always just look at that bar00:10:03
and pinch to drag it around.00:10:06
So drag it forward,
backward, anywhere you want00:10:09
in X, Y, and Z space, and then let go00:10:11
and it just stays absolutely locked.00:10:13
And then you can look at
either bottom corner to resize00:10:16
to make it bigger or smaller.00:10:18
And then finally there's
a little X at the bottom,00:10:20
you select that, that closes it.00:10:22
So that is the basics of Vision OS,00:10:25
and just using an app.00:10:26
Now this entire time, by default,00:10:29
and almost any time they
can, passthrough is on,00:10:32
which means you have the headset on,00:10:34
but you can see with the cameras00:10:35
right through to everything around you.00:10:37
And I think this is
where Apple really wants00:10:38
to normalize the term spatial computing,00:10:42
because it feels like augmented reality.00:10:44
It feels like you're always
able to see the space00:10:47
around you, but technically
it's not actually AR,00:10:50
because you are still looking
at a reconstructed version00:10:53
through a camera feed
of the world around you00:10:55
instead of the actual world around you.00:10:57
But maybe it's all just semantics.00:10:59
I will say, this is the best
passthrough of any VR headset00:11:03
I've ever used, and it's
not even that close.00:11:05
Now again, it's so hard to get
this through a YouTube video.00:11:09
It does have screen recording built in,00:11:11
so I'm gonna try to use that.00:11:12
But imagine putting a headset on,00:11:14
and not really feeling like
you're looking at a screen00:11:17
with the real world.00:11:19
Because of the pixel density,00:11:20
because of the 90 hertz refresh rate,00:11:22
and because of the impressive
dynamic range of the cameras00:11:25
and the correctly adjusting shutter speed,00:11:27
you just almost don't,00:11:29
you almost just feel like you're looking00:11:31
at the real world, not through a headset.00:11:32
Also the passthrough is
so close to real time00:11:36
that I could legitimately
interact with all kinds of things.00:11:39
I could catch items flying at me.00:11:41
I even tried playing ping pong.00:11:43
It was easy, no hesitation.00:11:45
So officially, the R1 chip
is doing all the processing00:11:48
of all this stuff and
adjusting the shutter speed00:11:50
for different lighting conditions00:11:51
and always keeping passthrough latency00:11:53
under 12 milliseconds, which
is the lowest in the industry.00:11:57
But it's really combining
that with how close to reality00:12:01
the colors and brightness
and everything are00:12:03
that keeps it feeling kind of real.00:12:06
Basically, the only noticeable restriction00:12:08
is super close up items and
objects can get a bit blurry,00:12:12
and then you can't quite
make out really small00:12:14
or fine texts, so you can't read an email00:12:17
or a tiny text on your phone in your hand,00:12:19
but you can absolutely text people,00:12:21
or read your notifications,
while keeping the headset on.00:12:23
If you've tried other VR headsets,00:12:25
you know how impressive that is.00:12:26
It's just, it's really good with the tech00:12:29
that exists now for VR headsets.00:12:32
But you can definitely
still take the headset off00:12:35
and be like, oh, it's way brighter in here00:12:36
than I thought it was.00:12:38
Either way, that's all passthrough,00:12:40
but if you ever wanna
fully immerse yourself,00:12:43
I mean it is a VR headset after all,00:12:45
all you gotta do is rotate
this digital crown clockwise,00:12:49
just keep turning it, and it will slowly00:12:51
dial your environment more and
more into your field of view00:12:55
until you dial it all the way
up to fully surrounding you.00:12:57
So all of the windows
you might have had open00:13:00
will still stay stuck where they were,00:13:01
but everything you're doing
is just on the moon now.00:13:06
So yeah, there's a couple environments00:13:07
Apple has built in here,00:13:09
most of them relaxing scenic locations,00:13:12
like in California somewhere,00:13:14
or one really nice one is Mount Hood00:13:16
with a little bit of rain falling.00:13:17
They're not quite photorealistic,00:13:20
but they're just short of photorealistic,00:13:22
like they're the most
realistic digital environments00:13:26
that I've seen. So then the last two big quirks
of the UI, control center.00:13:32
So the only way to get to control center00:13:33
is to look up, and you can't just look up,00:13:36
but you have to physically
turn your head up00:13:38
and look at this arrow
that appears above you.00:13:39
So once you see that, you select that00:13:41
and then you get your control
center for things like,00:13:43
you know, battery life and
notifications, focus modes,00:13:46
and screen recording,
and pairing to a Mac.00:13:49
But the other big quirk is text input.00:13:52
So you might be wondering
how does text input work00:13:55
with no physical controllers?00:13:58
So there's basically
three ways to do this.00:14:00
So let's say you are in Safari,00:14:02
and you want to go to mkbhd.com.00:14:04
You really want one of those
shiny new Chevron hoodies00:14:07
for the rest of winter.00:14:08
Great, how do you do it?00:14:09
So the first way is to
literally hunt and peck00:14:12
poking the keys on the keyboard00:14:14
that appears in the air in front of you.00:14:17
So this one is tough, because
it literally only reacts00:14:20
to your pointer finger on each hand.00:14:22
So you actually can't type fast,00:14:24
like with home row or anything like that.00:14:26
Not great. The second way, though, I
think is actually kind of good.00:14:29
It's at least faster,
which is looking at the key00:14:32
you want to interact with, and
then pinching to select it.00:14:35
So just looking around
the keyboard like this,00:14:38
and selecting the keys.00:14:39
And you might be surprised how
fast you can type like this00:14:41
if you actually know your way
around a keyboard pretty well.00:14:43
I actually prefer this to
poking the virtual keys00:14:47
because I at least get a
little bit of haptic feedback00:14:49
from my own fingers tapping together.00:14:51
But then in Safari, the last way to do it00:14:53
is literally to just
look up at the microphone00:14:54
and say the URL out loud.00:14:56
MKBHD.com.00:14:58
And then it just hears you00:14:59
and goes to the site pretty quick,00:15:01
if it's a URL that you
can actually say out loud.00:15:04
So, what can you actually
do with this thing?00:15:09
Like now that we know what
it is, it's the M2 chip,00:15:12
a computer on your face with the displays00:15:15
and the lenses inside, and all
sorts of sensors everywhere.00:15:18
What can this thing actually do?00:15:19
And I feel like the most
common way to phrase that00:15:21
is what is the killer app?00:15:23
Because that's, we feel
like we need some sort00:15:25
of justification to spend
three, $4,000 on this thing.00:15:29
Like applications made the
iPhone what it is as we know it,00:15:33
like apps made the iPad.00:15:35
So what is the app
situation on the Vision Pro?00:15:39
So there are two types of apps
on the Vision Pro, actually.00:15:43
The first is apps that
are built specifically00:15:46
for the Vision Pro to take advantage00:15:48
of its awesome experiences.00:15:50
And there are a few of those right now,00:15:52
and then there are all the other apps,00:15:55
which basically are iPhone and iPad apps00:15:57
that happen to be compatible00:15:59
because the developer didn't opt out.00:16:03
And the first kind is way cooler.00:16:05
So these are Apple's stock apps here00:16:08
that come with the Vision Pro.00:16:09
And so these are all, of course,
made just for Vision Pro.00:16:13
So they're gonna have stuff
that takes full advantage00:16:16
of what this thing is capable of.00:16:17
Apple Music is a pretty classic one,00:16:19
like it has all the same functionality00:16:20
of any other Apple Music app,00:16:22
but in this super glassy frosted window,00:16:25
and shows the colors of
whatever's behind it.00:16:27
And you have the sort of sorting
menu on the left hand side00:16:31
instead of across the bottom.00:16:32
That's the basic layout.00:16:34
Same thing with the Notes
app and the Settings app.00:16:36
Very glassy, almost looking
like an iPad app in the air,00:16:39
just rebuilt with this
new material design.00:16:42
And then there's the media apps.00:16:44
So Apple TV and Disney+,
they both come pre-installed,00:16:48
which they have built entire environments00:16:50
inside of them for watching media.00:16:52
And there's even a small
collection of videos00:16:55
on the Apple TV app that are shot00:16:57
on a new proprietary format00:16:58
specifically for Vision Pro.00:17:00
So it drops you into a space
with a full 180 degree video,00:17:04
and Alicia Keys walks right up to you00:17:07
and starts singing right to your face.00:17:09
It's crazy. There's also the Photos app,00:17:10
which will let you look
at panoramic photos,00:17:13
for example, in this fully immersive view.00:17:15
So you can blow them up to full screen,00:17:18
and then it gives you a
bit of a parallax effect00:17:19
around the edges, so it
feels like you're looking00:17:22
into a window of your own
photo and looking around.00:17:25
It's kind of incredible.00:17:26
And then there's also
some other really fun00:17:28
third party apps that I've tried00:17:29
that were built ahead of time.00:17:30
So Sky Guide, this is a good one.00:17:32
You can look around a real
representation of the sky00:17:35
around you or any of the
constellations would normally be,00:17:39
you can look at it a little
longer and it'll pop it out.00:17:42
You can pull it outta the sky00:17:43
to get more information about it.00:17:45
It's a pretty great idea.00:17:47
There's another one called Jig Space,00:17:49
which is, it's a sick app,00:17:50
I don't know if I'd ever use it,00:17:51
but basically it lets you load 3D models00:17:54
into the space you're in
and mess around with them,00:17:57
take 'em apart, view them in actual size.00:17:59
And this really takes
advantage of how good00:18:01
the placement lock is on the Vision Pro.00:18:03
And you can walk around,
and really gets you00:18:05
a better understanding
of the scale of things00:18:07
that you don't get to
see up close very often.00:18:10
And then Keynote is another funny one.00:18:12
So you can of course go
through and edit a Keynote00:18:15
just like normal if you want to,00:18:17
but then they've built
this whole environment00:18:20
for practicing your presentation skills.00:18:22
So you press that and it
says, oh, would you like to go00:18:24
to a conference room, or the
literal Steve Jobs Theater,00:18:27
so you can rehearse
talking to your audience00:18:30
with your Keynote slides behind you.00:18:32
It is genuinely incredibly immersive.00:18:35
And there's already a
bunch more apps like this00:18:37
in the App Store already at launch00:18:38
that are specifically
built for Vision Pro.00:18:41
So they'll take advantage
of its various strengths.00:18:44
Now, are any of these a killer app?00:18:48
Not really.00:18:49
I mean I don't, if you're
looking for any one of these00:18:52
to be the reason why you spend
like $4,000 on this headset,00:18:55
I don't think we have that yet.00:18:57
But then at least there's
all the other non-native,00:19:00
but technically still compatible, apps00:19:03
that are in the App Store.00:19:04
And these are gonna look just
like iPhone and iPad apps.00:19:07
Actually, there's a pre-installed
folder on the home screen00:19:10
when you get this thing
literally called Compatible Apps,00:19:13
and there's a bunch of
them from Apple here.00:19:16
They look exactly like iPad apps.00:19:17
I'm surprised actually
that more of them aren't00:19:20
fully built out to take
advantage of Vision Pro,00:19:23
but like, Apple Maps is just the iPad app.00:19:26
And so it would be cool
if there were some fun00:19:29
augmented reality overlay
walking directions type stuff,00:19:32
but nope, it's all the
exact same functionality00:19:35
that you would find if you
opened this app on your iPad.00:19:37
And you can go to the App Store00:19:38
and search a bunch of the names of apps00:19:40
you already know and love,
and find them by name00:19:42
and grab them, and they'll
work the exact same way.00:19:44
Crazily enough though, there are already00:19:47
some notable exceptions.00:19:50
No Netflix app for the
Vision Pro, no YouTube app00:19:54
for the Vision Pro, no Spotify
app for the Vision Pro.00:19:57
Apple has kind of a
contentious relationship00:20:01
with a lot of developers right now,00:20:02
especially some of the bigger ones.00:20:04
And so some have made the
active choice to opt out.00:20:08
They're like, we don't wanna be there.00:20:10
This won't be a big enough
platform to matter to us00:20:13
to justify the work.00:20:14
So they're not there.00:20:15
Now I totally get it,00:20:16
but also now as a Vision Pro owner00:20:18
and someone who's using it,00:20:19
I'm like, oh, it's kind of a bummer.00:20:22
I really wanted to be able to
watch a Netflix show offline,00:20:26
downloaded it ahead of time,
but you can't do that now.00:20:29
But at least, at least
for now, for the record,00:20:32
you can use the browser,00:20:33
and anything that would
work in the browser.00:20:35
So if you pull up Safari,00:20:36
and you get a full screen
4K YouTube video going,00:20:39
and locked in space, or
even in an environment,00:20:42
it looks great.00:20:43
It's razor sharp.00:20:44
Like, I could totally watch
YouTube videos like this.00:20:47
But you will definitely
be missing the features00:20:49
of having the dedicated
app, like offline video.00:20:52
Honestly to me, the killer
app of the Vision Pro00:20:56
isn't just an app, it's
actually the ecosystem.00:21:00
And we knew this was coming,00:21:02
but the second you log into a
Vision Pro with your Apple ID,00:21:05
immediately it starts
pulling all the services,00:21:08
and all the stuff that you're used to00:21:09
from all the other Apple
devices you already have.00:21:12
And I said this before the
Vision Pro was announced,00:21:14
I was like, this is the most
obvious strategy for Apple00:21:16
because there are lots of people out there00:21:18
who have never considered
buying a VR headset00:21:20
that are considering only this one00:21:22
because they have an iPhone,00:21:24
and this is the one that
works with the iPhone,00:21:26
and none of the others
are particularly close.00:21:28
So all of your iMessages are already here,00:21:30
all of your photos are already here00:21:32
and loaded up and backed up.00:21:33
All your Notes are already
at your fingertips.00:21:36
You already saw the Keynote app.00:21:37
But okay, easily my favorite feature00:21:40
is connecting to your Mac, right?00:21:42
So anytime your Mac is in front of you00:21:44
and it's turned on, hit that arrow00:21:46
and then there's this little icon00:21:47
to Become My Mac's Virtual Display.00:21:50
So I click that, and then pick my Mac,00:21:52
and it pretty much instantly,
it actually blacks out00:21:54
the display of my Mac, and
then turns that display00:21:58
into a 4K window inside of the headset.00:22:02
So now my keyboard and
trackpad still work,00:22:05
even if it is a desktop.00:22:06
The keyboard and the trackpad
still control everything,00:22:08
and you can continue using it
just like a normal computer,00:22:11
but with the ability to
make your new 4K monitor00:22:14
as big or as small or close
or far away as you want,00:22:18
which is super sick.00:22:19
And then the bonus is
you can still open up00:22:22
and place other Vision Pro
apps around your Mac computer.00:22:27
So like you can have your
Mac in the middle here,00:22:29
and maybe you're editing or
doing some work on the Mac app,00:22:32
and then you have a Safari
window, or Messages,00:22:35
or whatever else you want
right next to it around it.00:22:38
And then your keyboard
and trackpad can move00:22:41
seamlessly between them
all to control all of them.00:22:45
This, to me, as a Mac user,
the ease of use for setup00:22:49
to make this happen, this feels like00:22:51
the biggest game changer,00:22:52
like the most compelling
futuristic feeling00:22:55
use of this headset to me.00:22:57
Especially on a plane.00:22:58
Oh my god, I can't tell you how many times00:23:00
I've had an awkward conversation because,00:23:02
like, I'm editing a video on the plane,00:23:03
the person next to me sees
I'm editing a video of myself,00:23:06
and it's kind of weird
and hard to explain,00:23:08
but I'm picturing putting the headset on,00:23:11
the display blacks out,00:23:12
but now I can do all the editing I want,00:23:14
and I can make the
screen as big as I want.00:23:16
So I've really enjoyed using that feature.00:23:17
Again, the biggest challenge, though,00:23:19
is still remembering to
look exactly at the thing00:23:23
you want to control.00:23:24
So aside from typing on the real keyboard00:23:27
on whatever window is open, if you want00:23:29
to control something, you
have to be looking at it.00:23:33
Again, it doesn't sound like a big deal,00:23:34
but when you try it,
you'll see what I mean.00:23:37
And then also, odd
limitation, one monitor only.00:23:40
From the Mac, one virtual
monitor only at a time.00:23:44
So if you usually run a
dual display setup like I do00:23:46
for Final Cut Pro, big
preview on one side,00:23:49
timeline on the other
side, you can't do that.00:23:51
You have to use the big one
monitor version of your setup.00:23:55
All right, so you might have realized00:23:56
I've left one thing out this whole time.00:24:00
One thing, you could call
it one more thing, sure.00:24:02
It's one more huge crazy thing,00:24:06
but it's kind of the defining
characteristic of this product00:24:09
and that is Personas.00:24:11
So in all the advertising
you've seen of Vision Pro,00:24:15
there's these eyes on the
outside of the headset00:24:19
that looks like they're
kind of in a passthrough,00:24:21
like in a dark astronaut
helmet type of thing.00:24:24
Easily the most memed, most unique aspect00:24:27
of this headset, right?00:24:28
It's the only headset
with an outward display.00:24:31
And I mean it's very, very
prominent in those videos,00:24:34
but in real life, as you've started to see00:24:36
from some of my footage,
it is very different,00:24:40
and I think I figured out why.00:24:42
So first of all, it's not
actually see-through, right?00:24:45
There's a whole bunch of computer00:24:46
in between me and you right now.00:24:48
So the eyes aren't on the outside.00:24:50
It's a representation of my eyes00:24:53
based on what all the sensors
on the inside are seeing.00:24:55
It's reconstructing it on the outside.00:24:57
So those sensors are tracking
at 90 frames per second,00:25:00
and they give you optic ID, which is,00:25:03
it's how you log into the
headset and keep things secure.00:25:05
It's basically the same
as face ID, or touch ID,00:25:08
it's just looking at and
identifying your eyes.00:25:11
And it also powers the one
beta feature of this headset,00:25:15
which is Personas, which
is, it's the most impressive00:25:20
and weirdest thing about this
headset at the same time.00:25:23
I'm calling it right now.00:25:24
So the purpose of the eyes on the outside00:25:26
is really not for you,
the wearer of the headset.00:25:29
In fact, you'll never see it.00:25:30
But it's for the people around you.00:25:32
So when you're in a passthrough mode,00:25:34
your eyes will shine through00:25:36
to indicate that you wearing the headset00:25:39
can see the person outside.00:25:41
So that right there is
already pretty unique.00:25:43
But then, when you're
in something immersive00:25:45
and you can't see what's around
you, it covers up your eyes00:25:48
with this sort of like a blue,
purple glowing animation.00:25:52
So that intuitively makes sense.00:25:53
You can see the eyes
when they can see you,00:25:54
you can't see the eyes
when they can't see you.00:25:56
But crazily enough, there's also a feature00:25:57
where if you have someone
who's outside the headset00:26:00
looking at you, talking to you,00:26:02
and you are in an immersion,00:26:04
but you want to talk to them through that,00:26:08
they will kind of appear through the fog00:26:11
of whatever immersive
environment you're in.00:26:13
So you just start talking and
looking in their direction.00:26:16
It detects that, and sort of
parts a little bit of a fog00:26:20
and that person's eyes
will show through the fog.00:26:23
It's pretty decent.00:26:24
It basically only shows
one person at a time.00:26:26
And when this is happening on
the outside of the headset,00:26:29
it shows a little bit of
your eyes poking through00:26:32
the purple and blue glow.00:26:35
It's, as you can see, it's all working,00:26:38
but also, I think it looks
nothing like the eyes00:26:41
from the ad.00:26:42
So in an effort to make the eyes00:26:44
as presentable as possible, two things.00:26:47
First of all, this
screen is actually behind00:26:50
a lenticular film, which
I didn't even realize that00:26:53
from the initial media they had published.00:26:55
But if you've ever heard of that,00:26:56
it's sort of what gives it this 3D depth.00:26:59
You might have seen this on
other holographic displays00:27:01
and stuff, but the point of that00:27:03
is to make the eyes appear to
be sunken into the display,00:27:07
like on your actual face,00:27:09
instead of glued to the
front of the headset,00:27:12
which would look a little more weird.00:27:13
But then two, to represent
your actual eyes,00:27:16
they've built in a way to scan in00:27:19
and create a digital
representation of your face,00:27:22
which is called your Persona.00:27:25
And it looks like this.00:27:26
So to get those eyes on the outside00:27:29
of the Vision Pro headset,
you have to do something00:27:31
called registering your Persona.00:27:33
This is how it creates
the digital version of you00:27:36
that includes your eyes
that will show up here.00:27:40
So let's do that now.00:27:42
It's actually kind of a cool process.00:27:43
So I'm gonna put it on, and
hopefully the screen recording00:27:45
works so you can see
exactly what I'm doing.00:27:47
I'll hit the digital crown.00:27:48
I'm gonna go to Settings.00:27:50
And you can do this when
you first set it up.00:27:51
But I'm going to Persona, and
I'm gonna hit Get Started.00:27:57
So let's refine my hands real quick.00:28:00
This is capturing detail
from the front of the headset00:28:03
of the hands in front of me.00:28:07
Once it's done with that-00:28:08
- [Automated Voice] Your
Persona, remove Apple Vision Pro.00:28:10
- It's gonna ask me to take it off.00:28:12
So this is how it goes.00:28:13
- [Automated Voice] When you're ready,00:28:15
hold Apple Vision Pro at eye level.00:28:18
Keep your arms and shoulders relaxed.00:28:21
Align your entire face within the frame.00:28:23
- [Marques] My face shows up like face ID.00:28:25
- [Automated Voice] Slowly
turn your head to the right.00:28:30
Now slowly turn your head to the left.00:28:36
Now tilt your head up,00:28:41
then tilt your head down.00:28:46
Next, let's capture
your facial expressions.00:28:48
Smile with your mouth closed.00:28:52
Then make a big smile
with your teeth showing.00:28:56
Now raise your eyebrows.00:29:00
Close your eyes for a moment.00:29:03
Capture complete.00:29:05
Put Vision Pro back on to continue.00:29:10
- I will do that.00:29:11
So now I have a menu that
says Creating Persona,00:29:16
and it says it's in beta,00:29:18
and now there's my Persona right there.00:29:24
Kind of uncanny.00:29:26
The hair's a little bit
different, but the face.00:29:33
Wow, wow.00:29:34
Okay.00:29:35
So there's different lighting. You can choose it to always
be in studio lighting,00:29:37
and always be in contour lighting.00:29:39
I'll just leave it at
natural, and hit next.00:29:43
You can change the color
temperature of your skin tone.00:29:47
Cool to warm, I think I'm around there.00:29:51
Brightness, darkness.00:29:54
I think I'm around there, near the middle.00:29:59
Next.00:30:01
And then I can add glasses.00:30:02
So if I typically have glasses,00:30:03
which obviously I wouldn't be able to wear00:30:05
in the Vision Pro, you can still
look like you have glasses,00:30:08
anytime you're on that FaceTime call.00:30:10
And then next.00:30:13
Save.00:30:14
And that's it.00:30:16
So I think now00:30:20
you should see my eyes.00:30:24
Maybe.00:30:26
And that that's the
thing, it barely shows up.00:30:30
You can barely see my eyes
when I'm wearing the headset.00:30:33
Now I've tried a couple
other scans subsequently,00:30:36
so I've tried different
lighting conditions,00:30:38
I've tried different
backgrounds, simple backgrounds,00:30:40
tried different shirts
and things like that.00:30:42
It doesn't really ever
appear any brighter.00:30:44
I think if you have a
darker skin tone like me,00:30:47
just don't expect the eyes
to show up very brightly00:30:50
on the outside of the headset.00:30:51
It's pretty subtle.00:30:52
Even when it does show up,
it's a little weird looking.00:30:55
The eyes are a little
too far apart sometimes.00:30:58
They're a little dim.00:30:59
You see one eye at a time.00:31:01
It's kind of weird.00:31:02
But that Persona though.00:31:04
Whew.00:31:05
That is some pretty interesting stuff.00:31:07
It's crazy that this is actually
a real thing being shipped,00:31:11
like first Meta started doing it.00:31:13
Now Apple's doing this.00:31:15
This is, again, it's technically in beta.00:31:17
So I dunno, there's room for improvement,00:31:19
but it still works.00:31:21
But as of right now, I feel like this is00:31:23
both incredibly impressive
and slightly unsettling.00:31:28
Like, it's very impressive
that this thing,00:31:32
this headset I'm wearing on my face,00:31:33
is tracking all these
little micro expressions00:31:37
and little movements for
my eyes and my cheeks00:31:39
and my mouth and everything.00:31:42
But at the same time,
it's just not quite human.00:31:47
It's right at the edge
of the uncanny valley00:31:49
of I'm not looking at a person.00:31:51
So yeah.00:31:54
But the crazy part is you
can now use this Persona00:31:58
as your camera feed for
any apps in Vision Pro00:32:01
that require a front facing
camera, like FaceTime.00:32:06
And so I've tried, I've
been using FaceTime00:32:09
a few times in the Vision Pro,00:32:11
and it is, technically
speaking, incredible.00:32:15
So I've made a few FaceTime
calls in the past few days00:32:17
with some fellow reviewers,00:32:19
who you'll probably recognize
from their Personas,00:32:21
who are also testing the Vision Pro.00:32:23
And universally, once we
all got past the shock of,00:32:27
oh my god, it's you.00:32:29
It looks like a digital version of you.00:32:30
This is crazy.00:32:31
I've never seen anything like this before.00:32:33
Once we got past that, there
is a ton happening here.00:32:36
So you can see the FaceTime windows00:32:39
literally appear as just that.00:32:41
They're just like glassy
windows floating in space00:32:44
with people looking through them.00:32:46
And then the angle that
you look into the window00:32:49
is gonna match the angle that
they see you looking at them.00:32:54
Meaning if we're all in
Vision Pros on this call,00:32:57
unlikely, but hear me out.00:32:58
If we're all in Vision Pros,00:33:01
and you've got a bunch of
people on this FaceTime call,00:33:03
so there's somebody to the left,00:33:04
and somebody to the right,
if I look to the person,00:33:07
and make eye contact with
the person to the right,00:33:09
the person to the left
sees the side of my head,00:33:13
because I'm looking at somebody else.00:33:16
That's already pretty cool.00:33:17
And then the same thing
is true for hand gestures.00:33:19
So we tried this out.00:33:20
Turns out you can reach out00:33:22
and make hand gestures that
are tracked by the cameras00:33:25
in this bubble in front of you,00:33:26
and they show up at the correct angle00:33:29
towards the person that
you're gesturing at,00:33:31
so not towards everybody else on the call.00:33:34
Oh wait, wait, wait.00:33:35
Okay, good test.00:33:36
So wait, Justine, do you see this?00:33:37
- Yes.00:33:38
- And Brian, do you see?
- I don't see that.00:33:39
I don't see that, Marques.
- Whoa.00:33:40
- Now wait.00:33:41
So now Brian, do you see this?
(Justine gasps)00:33:42
- Now I can see that, Marques.00:33:43
- And then on top of
that, spatial audio here00:33:45
is incredibly well developed.00:33:47
So again, you're on the
call, the voice of the person00:33:50
to the right comes from the right side.00:33:52
The voice of the person to
the left comes from the left.00:33:54
But also, you can just pick
up and move the window around,00:33:56
and that angle will match where
the people are in the room00:34:01
and where their sound
and video comes from.00:34:03
If I put you on the
other side of the room,00:34:06
it sounds like they're further away.00:34:08
And if I turn up the environment,00:34:12
and bring them into the
moon, or some other 3D space,00:34:16
it actually sounds much more
like I'm in a gigantic space00:34:20
with no echo, versus in the actual room.00:34:22
It's all very subtle,
but very well considered.00:34:25
So once you're in this a while,00:34:26
you start to notice all
these little smaller things.00:34:29
Again, it's not quite human-like.00:34:31
It's not like looking at a
video feed of a human face,00:34:35
but it is still, like
it has a lot of like,00:34:37
this would be the best avatar
anyone's ever made in 2K.00:34:40
Like no one's ever done a 2K face scan00:34:42
and had it look this good,00:34:43
but it's still not as
good as a perfect reality.00:34:46
It's a, you've heard the
uncanny valley thing before.00:34:49
I think the number one
weakness for the avatars00:34:52
or the Personas that I've seen is hair.00:34:55
So basically everyone I've talked to has00:34:56
like a frozen lump of hair00:34:58
instead of flowing realistic hair.00:35:01
And that's true about all flowing things,00:35:02
like however your hair
was when you did the scan,00:35:05
it's frozen that way.00:35:06
And so is any necklace you're wearing,00:35:08
whether it's crooked or not,00:35:10
or I guess, technically
also any makeup you had on,00:35:13
or however you looked
when you did the scan.00:35:15
Maybe that could be a good thing.00:35:17
Maybe you did a scan when you
were looking all dolled up,00:35:19
and then you get on a 7:00 AM call,00:35:20
and you still look perfect even though00:35:22
you look like you just
woke up in real life.00:35:24
So I guess there's that too.00:35:25
But anyway, all that is to say FaceTime.00:35:28
FaceTime is the most well thought out,00:35:33
like most futuristic
Vision Pro experience.00:35:37
It just is.00:35:38
So I'll end this video with this.00:35:40
Now you know what it's
like to use and operate00:35:45
the Vision Pro.00:35:46
But there's still a lot more to consider00:35:48
when actually considering
if you should buy00:35:50
and own this thing, from the use cases,00:35:53
to the things that work
well, and don't work well,00:35:56
the philosophy behind it, the
prices, all of that stuff.00:35:59
That's what's gonna be for my full review.00:36:02
Like there are parts of this thing00:36:03
that are absolutely amazing,00:36:05
unparalleled, best I've ever seen.00:36:08
But the reason it's so interesting00:36:09
is because it's actually a young category.00:36:12
Like we're so used to this
slow, boring iteration00:36:15
in mature categories, like
smartphones, and laptops,00:36:18
and you always see the comments00:36:19
talking about how tech is so boring,00:36:21
but now they're actually
jumping into something risky,00:36:23
and it's actually fun, and
there is downfalls and flaws,00:36:27
and it's fun to actually
weigh the pros and cons.00:36:29
So I'll be expanding on all these way more00:36:31
in the full review, but
I'll leave you with this.00:36:33
I've got my upsides and
downsides to Vision Pro.00:36:37
It's been a week.00:36:38
Upsides, some of the stuff
that's the best I've ever seen00:36:40
in a headset.00:36:41
Immersion, placement
in space, eye tracking00:36:45
and hand control, passthrough, ecosystem,00:36:49
and spatial audio.00:36:51
And the downsides, weight and comfort,00:36:54
the eyes on the outside,00:36:56
app selection right now,
battery life, and price.00:37:01
So the full reviews in the works.00:37:03
Definitely get subscribed
to be among the first00:37:05
to see that when it drops.00:37:07
Either way, till the next one.00:37:09
Thanks for watching.00:37:11
Catch you later.00:37:12
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