Devins: Vision Pro is a destruction test for spatial computing headsets
Benedict Evans · Apple's Vision Pro · Feb 8, 2024 · at 19:26
Benedict Evans (Devins) analyzes whether Apple's high-end Vision Pro headset will validate spatial computing or mark the category's dead end.
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“One of the things that occurred to me is this is a sort of destruction test of the whole thesis, because if basketball doesn't work on this screen, even that, I mean, it's, yes, it's four grand. Yes. It's heavy. If you put the basketball on and after five minutes, you're like, this is shit, then we're done. Yeah. It's not going to, you know, it's not going to work with a better device. This is as good as it's going to get. If games don't work, well, games do work a bit on press, but you know, if this doesn't break out, if we do not get, like, breakthrough new experiences on this that really make people say, oh my god, I've got to have that, as opposed to, that was amazing, I'm not going to buy one, then we're done, and we need to come back with AR glasses, or neural implants, or something else.”
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