I watch tons of media on it. My background was in film production and I firmly believe this is the best current way to watch films at home , as long as you don’t mind doing so alone.
The only better experience visually is a laser projector with active shutter glasses. I literally exclaimed out loud when I saw some of my shots on here for the first time. Depth for stereo movies adds so much, but you lose so much vibrancy and light with passive glasses. This solves both issues. I get why James Cameron said it was a religious experience. For fellow film makers, this is the highest quality way that I’ve experienced my own work.
It also is probably the only place at home to experience these movies at that quality. Nobody else has 4k 3D HDR with HFR. Nobody.
So as a previous film buff, it’s worth it alone for me for that.
However I also use it for work regularly. I join industry meetings with it, I multitask regularly. I spend more time on the couch working off my laptop with this as my screen now.
The passthrough and eyesight features have been surprisingly great for being with my family. While people think it’s sad that I’m doing my own thing in the headset, the reality is that we all do our own hobbies in the evening after work. I can now spend that time with my partner and interact with them while they do their thing.
I think it’ll take a while for Apple and the app developers to really get into the swing of things, but it’s been a huge, positive change for me.
Sadly that content basically doesn't exist outside of computer games.
I got myself a 240 Hz OLED HDR monitor and I wanted to see Gemini Man in 120 fps, but it turns out that this is unobtainable by the public. The only other HFR movie I'm aware of is the Hobbit series, but they're only 48 fps.
It's a bit weird to me that I have an ordinary consumer camera that can capture 120 fps or 8K at 60 fps, but that content fidelity exists only in YouTube or Vimeo.
Well that’s just down to a difference in definition and need for high frame rates.
The content is there. But the definition doesn’t match your own. Much like how many film and game results don’t match each other as well outside of just HFR .
Anything above 24/30 fps is high frame rate for film.
Frame rate for film is an aesthetic choice, and a business choice. Unlike gaming, which only conceptually uses a pinhole camera model, frame rate changes dramatically change the lighting needed, the quality of motion blur and the emotional response.
I have the Vision Pro and do like the quality and sound from my Sony a90j and Sonos system a bit more, but the size of the screen in the Vision Pro is amazing
I have old Oculus Quest 2, and yes even with lower resolution, it is far superior experience than watching movies on the TV. I can only imagine what it is like with Vision Pro.
I think it’s not just about picture quality but also about its ability to isolate you from your surroundings, can’t take a quick peek at your phone during boring scenes, screen appears huge, etc
I sent it back before the return deadline, would have considered keeping it if it had supported showing more than one display of my MacBook. I know by now they've released some sort of a "very wide display" in a VisionOS update, but back then it didn't really make sense. I thought, ok, I'll just try using one Mac desktop and all the other apps, messages & browser would be the Vision OS native ones open side by side. Then it turned out I had to connect my bluetooth mouse/keyboard to the Vision device instead (if I wanted to type something into the browser/Messages) and it was too much friction.
I did like the brief period of working (or just browsing stuff) while lying on the couch, but I knew from the beginning that I didn't need an even lazier position for staring at a screen all day.
“Hi-Res Screens: Enjoy up to 5 high-resolution screens with support for resolutions up to 2560x1400 (with Immersed Pro subscription), supports curved and portrait screens.”
Yeah, but why would I pay $3500 to use a 3rd party application that works fine on a $500 Quest 3 headset? Since graphics are only marginally better on Apple, this is silly they can't figure out how to do this themselves.
I’m still using Vision Pro for about 10-15 hours each week, but the bulk of that is spent mirroring my Mac or having focused writing time using the Obsidian iPad app—there really aren’t apps that take full advantage of the platform yet (and I don’t watch a lot of movies). Still, it’s been the best way to stay productive away from my desk. The launch was a bit rocky with bugs and missing features, but the recent updates to mirroring and keyboard/mouse support are starting to hint that Apple is focusing in on productivity as a first-class use case. I’m okay paying the premium knowing that this platform has the potential to keep heading in this direction. It feels like the hardware has a decent amount of headroom.
If you’re mirroring your Mac, the computer’s mouse/keyboard/trackpad work across both the virtual screen and Vision OS’s interface. You can also pair Bluetooth peripherals directly to the headset.
I bought and returned mine. Without decent window management integration in OSX it feels limited to only "fun" use cases. If it were able to pair with a Bluetooth keyboard and sync to my MacBook with many screens... I would buy one again immediately.
Mobile workspace for programming with Mac screen + 1 visionOS safari window for documentation and + 1 visionOS safari window for Kagi Assistant (Ai chatbot access)
General browsing, reading and watching apple tv or youtube (via juno).
Writing...magic keyboard + vision pro. Missing are decent writing apps...the popular iOS/iPadOS/macOS disabled their access on visionOS. I end up using Notes because I don't have a microsoft office subscription and Pages also isn't on visionOS.
I don't use it for all of these use cases every day.
I use it as a fancy monitor that I can strap to my face and fits in a suitcase. sometimes I want to work lying down and it's great for that. It being based on ipados makes it kinda useless aside from the display.
Not OP, but I type while lying down in bed. I don't have the AVP, but I do have xreal Air AR glasses that basically mirror my macbook pro's screen. I rest my Apple keyboard across my crotch/upper thighs, wherever my arms are most comfortable. To my right (on the bed) is my Apple Trackpad. It's kind of a hastle to move my hand from keyboard to trackpad, but I can drive almost all functions on my computer through the keyboard, so it's only used as a last resort. I also have airpods in my ears because the laptop is closed and on the floor.
I do this when my sciatica pain is preventing me from sitting and I'm tired of standing at my desk. I can work lying down for up to a couple of hours and find the position to be highly comfortable and productive.
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I watch tons of media on it. My background was in film production and I firmly believe this is the best current way to watch films at home , as long as you don’t mind doing so alone.
The only better experience visually is a laser projector with active shutter glasses. I literally exclaimed out loud when I saw some of my shots on here for the first time. Depth for stereo movies adds so much, but you lose so much vibrancy and light with passive glasses. This solves both issues. I get why James Cameron said it was a religious experience. For fellow film makers, this is the highest quality way that I’ve experienced my own work.
It also is probably the only place at home to experience these movies at that quality. Nobody else has 4k 3D HDR with HFR. Nobody.
So as a previous film buff, it’s worth it alone for me for that.
However I also use it for work regularly. I join industry meetings with it, I multitask regularly. I spend more time on the couch working off my laptop with this as my screen now.
The passthrough and eyesight features have been surprisingly great for being with my family. While people think it’s sad that I’m doing my own thing in the headset, the reality is that we all do our own hobbies in the evening after work. I can now spend that time with my partner and interact with them while they do their thing.
I think it’ll take a while for Apple and the app developers to really get into the swing of things, but it’s been a huge, positive change for me.
Sadly that content basically doesn't exist outside of computer games.
I got myself a 240 Hz OLED HDR monitor and I wanted to see Gemini Man in 120 fps, but it turns out that this is unobtainable by the public. The only other HFR movie I'm aware of is the Hobbit series, but they're only 48 fps.
It's a bit weird to me that I have an ordinary consumer camera that can capture 120 fps or 8K at 60 fps, but that content fidelity exists only in YouTube or Vimeo.
The content is there. But the definition doesn’t match your own. Much like how many film and game results don’t match each other as well outside of just HFR .
Anything above 24/30 fps is high frame rate for film.
Frame rate for film is an aesthetic choice, and a business choice. Unlike gaming, which only conceptually uses a pinhole camera model, frame rate changes dramatically change the lighting needed, the quality of motion blur and the emotional response.
I have the Vision Pro and do like the quality and sound from my Sony a90j and Sonos system a bit more, but the size of the screen in the Vision Pro is amazing
I think it’s not just about picture quality but also about its ability to isolate you from your surroundings, can’t take a quick peek at your phone during boring scenes, screen appears huge, etc
I did like the brief period of working (or just browsing stuff) while lying on the couch, but I knew from the beginning that I didn't need an even lazier position for staring at a screen all day.
“Hi-Res Screens: Enjoy up to 5 high-resolution screens with support for resolutions up to 2560x1400 (with Immersed Pro subscription), supports curved and portrait screens.”
https://immersed.helpscoutdocs.com/article/6-immersed-on-app...
Pushing further - the concept of window doesn't even make sense on such device.
Mobile workspace for programming with Mac screen + 1 visionOS safari window for documentation and + 1 visionOS safari window for Kagi Assistant (Ai chatbot access)
General browsing, reading and watching apple tv or youtube (via juno).
Writing...magic keyboard + vision pro. Missing are decent writing apps...the popular iOS/iPadOS/macOS disabled their access on visionOS. I end up using Notes because I don't have a microsoft office subscription and Pages also isn't on visionOS.
I don't use it for all of these use cases every day.
I do this when my sciatica pain is preventing me from sitting and I'm tired of standing at my desk. I can work lying down for up to a couple of hours and find the position to be highly comfortable and productive.
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