Before we get to Apple’s Vision Pro, let’s talk about the Apple Watch. Nine and a bit years ago, I was testing the very first Watch and went out to dinner with my then-girlfriend at a parochial tapas place in Bournemouth. You know, the kind of spot that serves roast potatoes and ketchup in place of patatas bravas.
Eventually, I needed to call a cab home and rather than do so with any sense of decorum or dignity, I dialled up United Taxis out loud in the middle of the restaurant by talking to my wrist. As a result, the image of my now wife’s visceral disgust is seared into my frontal lobe as a core cringeworthy memory and I have never done the same again. After almost a decade removed from that shared trauma, Apple has brought its most significant product in a generation to the UK.
The Vision Pro is a mixed reality ‘spatial computing’ headset that costs £3,499 and works by floating interactive apps around your real-world surroundings. Given it hit stores in the US this February, you might have already seen videos of people exhibiting some deliriously unhinged behaviour while wearing the thing. This time around I have resisted the temptation to spend the past seven days skiing , cooking or skateboarding across the streets of New York while using this device, and instead opted to use it like a normal human being.
One who owns a lot of Apple’s tech already, has tried every headset of note since the Oculus Rift and has accumulated a veritable graveyard of the things i.
