Don’t cry inside your Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro features an ultra-high-resolution display system that packs 23 million pixels across two displays — more than a 4K TV for each eye — and the brand-new R1 chip, for a virtually lag-free, real-time view of the world.
Wired‘s Lauren Goode is a sitting duck for sad movies which is why she hoped to measure the strength of Vision Pro’s emotional punch by watching weepy movies. She started with Life is Beautiful inside her Apple Vision Pro.
Lauren Goode for Wired:
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I could spend three paragraphs describing my Apple Vision Pro field of view to you, and it would be a waste of words.
This is the challenge of marketing this kind of product, even for Apple. The Apple Vision Pro is the opposite of a shared experience. You are alone on your couch wearing a computer on your face.
From the inside, though, the view is incredible. It really is. I’m just as surprised by this as you are. The picture is crisp, and the spatial sound is so realistic that more than once I removed the headset to see if someone was at the door. While watching Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni marched across the space where my living room meets the dining room, right up until (spoiler) Nazis took him out back and shot him. I cried.
Tears welled up in my goggles, pooling at the soft rim of the face cushion. These tears never made their way down my cheek. I was literally crying on the inside. When I plucked the Vision Pro off my face, I saw that the face computer’s seal was soaked…
Thanks to the Apple Vision Pro, I sat alone in a hyper-realistic virtual movie theater, watching in anamorphic widescreen format. Achievement unlocked: The headset was soggy. Honestly, I was starting to love this thing.
I text-messaged two friends, “Honestly, I’m starting to love this thing.”
[But], I also missed the people in the darkened space around me and the person on the couch next to me. I loved the Apple Vision Pro until I didn’t. I started to dread putting it on.
I cried watching movies in the Apple Vision Pro, which was the whole point, but it wasn’t the Apple Vision Pro that made me cry. It was something much more human than that. When I returned the Apple Vision Pro to the nice humans at the Apple Store, I didn’t cry.

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MacDailyNews Take: We’re all men here, so there’s little risk of us getting our Vision Pros damp during a movie, but if you one of the 15% of our visitors (analytics) who’re powered by estrogen, before you start bawling your eyes out over Goode’s item return, just remember that Vision Pro is a first generation device (let’s be real, it’s a public beta ). It’s all improvements from this point forward!
As for movie theaters:
Let’s see:
A) $19.99 for a first-run movie in the comfort of your own house on a large screen, with controllable audio volume (even closed captioning if you desire), with the entire family and your own all-you-can-eat popcorn, candy, and drinks for under $10 total for everyone
or
B) At least $80.00 for a family of four with criminally-overpriced often-stale popcorn, candy, and drinks at a potentially COVID-encrusted theater packed with uncouth idiots from who-knows-where talking, eating, coughing, sneezing, crunching bags, looking their phones, getting up to go to the bathroom, etc.
It’s such a difficult choice!
The $10 bucket of 10-cents worth of popcorn and the $6 cup of 6-cents worth of soda are obvious clues that theatre owners don’t have a sustainable business model.
Bottom line: It took a global pandemic to wake up Hollywood and drag it kicking and screaming into the new millennium at least a decade late. We’re sure Steve Jobs was telling Hollywood honchos this would happen long ago. — MacDailyNews, April 28, 2020
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