Apple Vision Pro: This is what it feels like to wear the glasses for the first time | Life & Knowledge
How can you describe something that you actually have to see with your own eyes?
Apple VisionProthe iPhone company's mega glasses, presents me with a certain challenge: Shortly before the German sales launch on July 12th (price from 3999 euros only directly from Apple, in the Apple stores free demos of the device are also offered) I can Apple try out the first “spatial computer” for the first time. The glasses have been on the market in the USA since February, but according to media reports, sales are slow.
I have already read a lot about the Vision Pro and also written by myselfBut it's only when I put it on my head and suddenly find myself on the surface of the moon that I realize: This thing is really as cool as promised.
You don't need to wear glasses or contact lenses under the Vision Pro. Lenses with the right prescription can be used
I can try out Apple's virtual world for around 40 minutes. My tour not only takes me to the surface of the moon, where scenes from the new “Avatar” 3D film are shown – in cinema screen size!
Like the background of an iPhone home screen, the environment in which you sit with the Vision Pro can also be changed. You can then look left and right and see a vast lunar landscape around you
I also watch a small group of dinosaurs moving across a lava landscape. Suddenly one of them steps out of the virtual screen and stands in front of me in the room, as if it was about to snap at me.
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Or you are sitting at the table with a family, your daughter is celebrating her birthday – and without thinking too much, you reach for the cake that looks so delicious.
A so-called spatial video is floating in the room in front of me. It is in 3D, the people seem lifelike and the cake is close enough to touch. Such videos can even be recorded yourself with an iPhone 15 Pro
Apple uses the word “immersive” in these examples to describe immersion in media and content. But that only works if the technology is so good that you actually forget where you are: on a sofa in Berlin with high-tech glasses in front of your eyes. Not on the sidelines of an NBA game or next to a herd of elephants leading their young to a watering hole.
That's exactly what the Vision Pro delivers. It makes you feel like you're really there.
The glasses are controlled by gaze and hand gestures
When my first tour through Apple's virtual world ends and I take off the Vision Pro, I realise that the 600 grams that the device weighs are a noticeable burden on my head. My eyes are strained and are happy to see the real world again. I no longer have to worry about the battery (lasts around two hours), which supplies the glasses with power via a cable.
Be that as it may – after all, I was on the moon.