09/08/2024
Wowsers! Had a play with the Apple Vision Pro (AVP) today… here’s my take - It’s 2010 all over again🔄. Let me explain.
The AVP was always going to be impressive🤩, and really, it didn’t disappoint - but not in the way you might expect. For an AU$6000 personal device, it would kinda want to leave me impressed. But it’s not the ‘wow and sparkle✨’ that hooked me in. Rather, the experience of how this thing operates. Whilst the clarity and immersion were amazing (and it was amazing!), what grabbed me most were 2 things…
1. 🎮The operability of the AVP. The way it tracks your eye movements and finger gestures are crazy. Coming from a Meta Quest user, this is so incredibly different. The AVP’s ability to monitor my eye movements - in addition to tracking your head and hands/fingers just impressed me enormously. Unlike a computer or an iPad, you now use your head, eyes and hands in combination to control. Why not add voice through Siri and future AI. The future of how devices will be directed is pretty clear - bio control and immersive experiences. As a method to operating a personal device it changed the way I viewed device control (boring to some, but not me) - which leads me into my next point. Do read on….
2. 🚀The future of personal devices. Let me throw some words at you… spatial video, meaningful immersion, physical control… not only does the AVP put you square in the centre of your experience, filmed correctly your are personally front and centre to what you see. With the likes of Canon recently releasing its Spatial Camera Lens (check it out! It looks weird!), immersive content will only rise in popularity. Likewise, most don’t realise iPhone 15 Pro can also record Spatial video. Honestly, think of the possibilities. Let me throw one at you…. In September 2026, NASA’s Artemis III will be headed to land on the Moon (first time since Apollo17 in 1972). Just imagine astronauts carrying a spatial camera and grabbing 30 minutes of video. Imagine!
Yes, AVP was impressive. It absolutely was a worthwhile experience. But more so, this is Gen 1. Put with our early days of AI, the future of personal tech is going to be mind blowing. Let that sink in.
I’ve been saying it’s like 2010 all over again. The iPad was released. Back then on the bell curve of ‘don’t care’ to ‘this thing is amazing’, most people sat somewhere in the middle. ‘Cool device, expensive, not practical to the world’. (I’ll remind you, gen 1 iPad had no camera!). Now look where we are.
Hands up 🙋♂️ if you’re thinking the same thing with the AVP?
In the world of education, the possibilities for all learners can be endless. And when I say ‘all learners’, yes there is a conversation around how this future technology can support & enhance learners with specific needs. Access to a curriculum will be reshaped.
Give it time. The tech will shrink and improve, features will expand and apps will be developed… and surely the price will come down.
But the content… oh the content! It will be amazing!
