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Friedberg: Apple Vision Pro will boost greenhouse worker productivity by 10x
“And I was like, man, literally every aspect of this job will be massively improved and productivity will go up by 10 X. With these goggles.”
Friedberg: Apple will reach $100B in Vision Pro sales within five years
“I think they're going to sell a hundred billion dollars of Apple vision pros, not this version, but this version plus the next version probably over the next. I would guess for them to get to a hundred billion in sales, it'll take them less than five years.”
Friedberg: Apple Vision Pro will eventually usher in a new computing platform
“It feels like the Apple Newton. It's definitely gonna usher in kind of a new computing platform, but it's definitely not prime time ready, as we saw with the sales.”
Chamath: I abandoned the Apple Vision Pro after exactly one day
“No, I used it for a day or a night when we were playing poker, and I've never used it again since.”
Sacks: Spatial computing headsets will eventually shrink into normal smart glasses
“It's really a proof of concept. Look, I think it's a great thing for innovation that they're starting with this, you know, like you said, expensive headset that maybe is not that ergonomic, but eventually it'll come down and the form factor will be glasses or …”
Friedberg: Apple Vision Pro hardware setup prevents easy device sharing
“In order to log in, you know, it does like a eye scan. Or you have to have like a lock in like login like you do with your phone, but then you got to reset the eye because it automatically sets the eye position. So when you put on someone else's headset, you g…”