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HN used it as an early, credible hands-on report showing the headset roughly matched Apple's demos.
Marques Brownlee shares his hands-on impressions of Apple's $3500 Vision Pro headset after trying it. He covers the spatial computing experience, eye tracking, and how it compares to other devices.
“I like the Marques Brownlee takes” (HN, 2023)
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> The reality-shaping power of Apple's demo maestros is truly admirable I like the Marques Brownlee takes, he's one of the "30 minutes hands on" guys: [this video] He seems fairly well impressed, at least in the first half of the video ...
> This is how he writes. Maybe, but Marques Brownlee gushed about it as well ( [this video] ), and he's not a person that pulls punches. This is an extremely ambitious, qualitatively different device than anything that's come before.
People (admittedly access-dependent friendly people [0]) have worn it and say it roughly lines up with demoes. There is no such analogue for Meta, Nreal, etc. [0] [this video]
You said: > Everyone I have seen with actual experience USING VR and AR say it is not even evolutionary, let alone revolutionary. Luckey obviously has that experience. Now you're changing to a different argument. Marques Brownlee also has experience with these products and says it was impressive and that there's nothing equivalent: [this video] .
Brownlee finds it impressive with nothing equivalent
Can't wait for the eye tracking of the Apple VR headset as described in this video to become more common [this video] seems like the most ergonomic way to interact with the computer
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