An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro

Better Offline

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Technology

4.6 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Apple's $3500 face computer is here, and after spending far too many hours inside it, Ed Zitron has found Apple's vision of the future to be equal parts exciting and frustrating - and a dark omen for the future of tech. He also sits down with the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern to talk about her experience as one of the early reviewers of the Vision Pro.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.4	Quarzo Media.
0:09.5	Welcome to Better Offline.
0:11.3	I'm Ed Zittron.
0:12.4	This is a weekly tech podcast where I break down the ways in which the tech industry,
0:16.8	and in particular, big tech, is trying to change the future, for better or for worse.
0:21.6	And in the case of Apple, a company worth nearly $3 trillion, it's a little bit of both.
0:31.6	It's a little bit of both.
0:35.6	You see, it took me 15 minutes and two restarts to try and rename the title of the script
0:43.5	I'm currently reading you.
0:45.4	The Vision Pro, Apple's latest device, and their first real new computer since the iPad, released
0:51.0	in early February of this year, and it's a 3,500 special computer which,
0:56.0	to quote Apple's marketing literature, you navigate simply with your eyes, hands, and voice.
1:02.9	This device refused time and time again to let me select the part of the document in Google
1:07.9	Dogs that I wanted to look and point and grab.
1:12.1	Theoretically, I was meant to look at it with my eyes,
1:14.6	and then it would go to the place I wanted it to go,
1:17.6	and then I'd tap my fingers, and then I'd select it, and then type things in.
1:21.6	That's not what happens, you can probably guess.
1:25.6	I assumed at first that this was potentially due to a poor fit,
1:29.1	so I pulled the Vision Pro off my head,
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