Properly, they did it!
This can be a calibration second. Take your self again to a yr in the past, earlier than all of the rumours of particular {hardware}. What number of of you anticipated Apple’s first entry on this product class to appear like a pair of spectacles? Possibly with a thicker body and stems or another intelligent solution to disguise the {hardware}, however a tool that extra intently resembled glasses than a headset. That made sense to me, too, however provided that Apple had just a few extra years to work on it as a result of that sort of miniaturisation doesn’t exist at the moment.
In fact, I don’t want to inform any of you what Apple confirmed us within the keynote and all of the visionOS periods launched this week. It’s the VR/MR headset {hardware}, precisely as rumoured, however with a completely thought-out software program story that screams, “AR remains to be our finish aim!” 👓
That’s the place the “calibration second” I discussed above is available in. Earlier than we had eyes on the Imaginative and prescient Professional {hardware}, we had no concept how far Apple was alongside the trail to one thing that does the whole lot this headset does within the type issue of a pair of spectacles. Now we all know precisely how far alongside they’re.
So am I disenchanted they unveiled this model? Completely not. This can be a tremendously thrilling announcement, and now they will iterate. Even higher, we are able to watch that iteration within the open! We’ll see the gadgets shrink and the software program take leaps and bounds. It’ll be superb, and I can’t wait to see (and take part in) what they do over the subsequent few years¹!
¹ Please word that I’m being very imprecise about how lengthy a “few years” could also be. 😂
Dave Verwer 
