110: Revisiting Apple Vision Pro & iOS 18 Public Beta Impressions
Jul 19, 2024
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The podcast discusses Apple Vision Pro's immersive video, spatial photos, and UI, along with its drawbacks. They share impressions on iOS 18 beta's Home screen, Control Center, and Photos app. The speakers analyze Vision Pro's comfort, hardware, software limitations, and compare it with Meta Quest 3. They also explore user experience issues, device discomfort, and provide a thorough review of the Vision Pro.
Apple Vision Pro offers immersive video and spatial photos but lacks comfort and content variety.
iOS 18's public beta introduces Home screen customization and a redesigned Photos app for users.
Deep dives
Vision Pro Main Features and Use
Vision Pro offers remarkable features like immersive video, excellent displays, and a well-designed UI with translucency and gesture controls. However, issues with comfort and weight, especially at its high price point, hinder the overall experience for prolonged use.
Mixed Reviews on Vision Pro Comfort
Users find Vision Pro discomforting after short periods, impacting focus and use despite its impressive technology and features like brilliant eye tracking and outstanding display quality.
Critique on Vision Pro Build and Material Choice
The design choice of thick aluminum and glass for Vision Pro's build is criticized for impacting comfort and user experience. Issues with the weight, cushion hardness, and material choices raise concerns about the overall comfort in extended use.
Future Hopes and Second Generation Vision Pro
Feedback on Vision Pro highlights the need for improvements in comfort, materials, and usability for future versions. Hopes are high for a lighter, better-designed second generation with enhanced features like improved battery life, comfort, and camera quality.
On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we revisit the experience of using Apple Vision Pro and talk through our first impressions of the iOS 18 public beta.
Apple's Vision Pro headset is now available in the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, prompting renewed interest in the spatial computing device. We discuss our thoughts on the best aspects of the Vision Pro, such as immersive video, spatial photos and video, gestures, and UI design, as well as its shortcomings, such as weight and comfort, video passthrough in dark environments, limited content, and general usefulness.
Earlier this week, Apple released the first public beta of iOS 18, bringing the new software to the general public for the first time since the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. Apple has seeded three developer betas so far, and the first public beta includes the same content that's in the third developer beta. We talk over our thoughts on iOS 18's new Home screen and Control Center customization features, the redesigned Photos app, and more.
Let us know what you think about the experience of using the Vision Pro headset and the iOS 18 beta in the comments.
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