52 – Apple Vision Pro
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The Apple Vision Pro is out and we each got ourselves one… Our first impressions on the early days of the Vision Pro. Will it change the world forever, like the iPhone?
Navigation:
- Intro (01:34 )
- Overall… TL;DR
- In-depth analysis
- Competition with Meta Quest 3
- Conclusion
Our co-hosts:
- Bertrand Schmitt, Entrepreneur in Residence at Red River West, co-founder of App Annie / Data.ai, business angel, advisor to startups and VC funds, @bschmitt
- Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, Managing Partner, Founder at Chamaeleon, @ngpedro
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Nuno G. Pedro
In this episode, episode 52 of Tech Deciphered, we will talk about the Apple Vision Pro. It’s now out, and both Bertrand and myself got ourselves one. So what are our first impressions on the early days of the Vision Pro? Will this revolutionise the future of input and output? Is this the new iPhone? Is this finally the product that Tim Cook has developed that shows us that he is the future of Apple? Let’s start with the overall impressions, Bertrand. What are your overall impressions?
Bertrand Schmitt
What are my overall impressions? It’s a mixed bag, that’s for sure. It’s a very impressive piece of tech. I think my worry is that it has been oversold by Apple, but also by a lot of YouTubers. When you keep looking at these YouTube videos of people using it for eight hours a day, I think it’s totally, utterly bullshit. There is no way in hell any normal human being will put that on their head eight hours a day unless forced to do it.
Nuno G. Pedro
Unless you’re working on your neck like you’re a Formula One driver or something.
Bertrand Schmitt
Exactly. You are working on your neck. Yes, it’s neck training. No, more seriously, overall, and we will go more in depth later on this episode, I feel it’s a great device for maybe two use cases. One is if you want to watch 3D content. To watch 3D content, 3D movies, potentially at some point 3D sports, when we get that, we don’t have that yet so far, 3D concert, then I think It’s awesome.
Bertrand Schmitt
Watching 90 minutes of 3D movies, it’s just an insane experience for me. It’s just amazing. It’s your best way to consume a Blade Runner 2049, a Dune. It’s actually maybe better than in a movie theatre if you combine it with a proper headset because the audio is quite good, the bass are pretty poor. For me today, as a mainstream consumer, that’s the best main use case. For businesses, there might be some reason to look at, if you are doing 3D design, to look at 3D objects in the middle of your room, I can see that as well.
Bertrand Schmitt
Beyond that, I think we’re talking about very stretch use cases. One of these could be to record a video of what you are doing and sharing that with other for training. I could see that probably for training pu