Reuters: Apple Vision Pro is the next Mac and TV combined

Apple Vision Pro
Apple’s Vision Pro could upend how people watch television at home and how they use computers at work, potentially positioning the spatial computer to be a successor to both traditional television and the Mac, according to Reuters’ Stephen Nellis and Dawn Chmielewski.
Stephen Nellis and Dawn Chmielewski for Reuters:
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The pricey device comes with custom computing chips and difficult-to-manufacture displays that rivals lack. Analysts who have tried the headset say these features could make the device a threat to almost every large two-dimensional screen at home or work.
It’s not clear that a mixed-reality device was what late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had in mind when he confided to biographer Walter Isaacson that, in developing a next-generation television, “I finally cracked it.” But to analysts like Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies, the Vision Pro seemed like it fulfilled that long-ago promise.
“I don’t know if this is what Jobs meant when he said ‘I cracked TV,'” said Bajarin. “But the platform element is what makes it more interesting than if they launched a TV. It can be productivity. It can be social. … It could become a much bigger deal and a much bigger opportunity than if it were just a TV.”
Jay Wright, chief executive of Campfire, a startup that makes software for using headsets to collaborate remotely on three-dimensional files such as engine designs, noted that the original Mac computer in 1984 cost the equivalent of nearly $7,500 today.
“It’s important to recognize this is not a consumer accessory device, like Apple Watch. This is a whole new computing platform,” Wright said. “I’m of the opinion that this is more like what comes after the Mac than what comes after the iPhone.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Yup.
Just as iPhone is a Mac in your hand, an iPad is a Mac in your hands, and Apple Watch is a Mac on your wrist — iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS are, of course, all based on based on Darwin (BSD), otherwise known at various times in history as Mac OS X, OS X, and, currently macOS — Apple’s Vision Pro is a Mac on your face (visionOS is also based on macOS). Really, Apple’s Vision Pro is a 3D Mac on your face!
I suppose, for good or bad (probably the latter), this is the natural evolution of things: after 16 years of hunching over handheld displays all day, we’re now ready to plaster them right in front of our eyes. Ah, “progress.”
One of Apple’s biggest advancements with Vision Pro is eliminating handheld controllers and, in doing so, making every so-called rival’s VR headset look like a horse and buggy in comparison, but the main thing is that Vision Pro is not a “VR headset” or “AR headset” or whatever. It’s a computer. A “spatial computer,” to be precise.
Computing in 3D space is how we should have been computing all along, but the technology wasn’t ready for several decades. It’s not even really ready today. The real goal is a pair of lightweight glasses (a decade plus away, at least), then – forget the contact lenses; won’t work – ultimately, brain implants. (Laugh now, but you’ll sign up for your procedure (much) later.)
Now, we can finally use our Macs naturally, with no 2D displays confining us!
So, don’t let the the Vision Pro’s ancillary features – watching giant 3D movies, playing giant 3D games, taking 3D photos and videos, etc. – drown out the fact that for just $3,500, you can own and use the world’s first spatial computer – a Mac on your face! – that allows you to compute anywhere and everywhere…
Apple’s Vision Pro is a tremendous achievement and a very strong start to a whole new platform. I can’t wait to see how far and fast it will develop!

SteveJack, “Apple’s Vision Pro is a Mac on your face,” MacDailyNews, June 6, 2023
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