Apple Vision Pro showdown -- for and against Apple's newest device on the AppleInsider Podcast
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ποΈ 9 February 2024
β±οΈ 57 minutes
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Summary
Apple Vision Pro is the most exciting new Apple device and/or it's the least useful. Host Wes Hilliard and guest Mike Wuerthele have both had the Apple Vision Pro since the day it was released yet they have dramatically different perspectives. See who you agree with, see who convinces the other, while we also touch on all the Apple News of the week.
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- Wes Hilliard on email
- Mike Wuerthele on email
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Links from the Show:
- Wes on Vision Pros podcast
- Apple Vision Pro early review: a peek into the future of computing
- Why Apple Vision Pro's constant strobing matters to your health
- Apple Vision Pro sees quiet launch at Apple Downtown Nashville
- What to expect from the Apple Vision Pro in-store demo
- Echoes of launches past: Tim Cook likens Apple Vision Pro to iPhone launch
- If your Apple Vision Pro gets stolen, Find My won't help you get it back
- Recharge the Apple Vision Pro twice as fast with a better power adapter
- Apple Vision Pro can be used in public, but mind your manners
- Please don't use the Apple Vision Pro while driving [u]
- Looks like YouTube will make an Apple Vision Pro app after all
- People are already forgetting their Apple Vision Pro passcodes, requiring a trip to Apple - fixed in beta
- Unsurprisingly, Apple Vision Pro lenses will scratch if you try to destroy them
- Apple introduces the first developer beta of visionOS 1.1
- Cook 'incredibly excited' about generative AI coming to Apple gear later in 2024
- Apple introduces the first developer beta of visionOS 1.1
- iTunes' days are numbered on Windows 10
- Apple is working on at least two folding iPhone prototypes
- Apple throws its hat into the AI-generated image ring
- Apple joins Meta, Google, Facebook on new US government AI safety initiative
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:34) - Apple Vision Pro
- (08:32) - VR not AR
- (12:48) - Social norms
- (19:28) - Apple couldn't release AVP sooner
- (20:22) - Opposing views
- (26:38) - Killer app
- (31:30) - Eco system
- (41:14) - Comfort
- (42:58) - Tim Cook and AI
- (50:26) - Deep Fakes on X
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. This is your host Wesley Hillier. |
| 0:08.1 | Today our sponsor is Seine Box and I am joined by Mike Wresley, managing editor of Apple Incider, my boss and |
| 0:16.3 | former fellow Navy shipmate. |
| 0:18.2 | How's it going, Mike? |
| 0:19.2 | It goes. |
| 0:20.4 | Some of you know me from my two other appearances on the Apple Incider Podcast over the last eight years and some of you have heard me on the space travel and bought podcast |
| 0:29.5 | Dilly departed of course, but obviously we're here to talk about Apple Vision Pro. |
| 0:34.4 | Yes, so we've had this thing for as we record about six days. I've just |
| 0:40.3 | released the early review as we're calling it, more or less a first look, very |
| 0:46.4 | in depth as I could get with the hours and hours I've spent with this thing on my face. |
| 0:51.2 | But I'm pretty excited about it and I think people on the show might be tired of hearing |
| 0:55.7 | me Wax Poetic about the Apple Vision Pro and so we brought you on to give us a little bit of the |
| 1:01.7 | other side maybe or maybe you're as ecstatic as I am but |
| 1:07.1 | No, I'm not I'm going to be the voice of reason I used it over the summer at a large company to be unnamed forever all time of the it wasn't fantastic. I understand where people are excited. It's the future of |
| 1:25.7 | computing. I do not think it's the future of computing anytime soon. In fact, if this is the future |
| 1:30.8 | computing it will be after I'm gone. I in my mid 50s I this isn't a 10 year thing this is a longer thing |
| 1:38.7 | so |
| 1:40.8 | this feels to me right now without going into the text specs or anything like that because we're not really going to talk about that today. |
| 1:49.0 | This is a line in the sand because Apple decided that, well, we want to be part of the conversation. |
| 1:54.6 | We don't want Meta to control the narrative around this platform in the future. |
| 2:08.8 | Yes, I mean, famously, I think it was Greg Joswieck who said he would never use the term Metaverse and Meta like Facebook as we call them, renamed their entire company around the idea of the |
| 2:17.3 | Metaverse and more or less kind of failed to really get that to take any traction. |
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