Ask HN: Are any of the AR features of the Vision Pro useful?
2 by oatmeal1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
* All of the rooms in which the Vision Pro is demonstrated are beautiful, spacious, and clutter free. I don't doubt the people that the people who will purchase Vision Pro have beautiful and spacious rooms, but I do doubt they're clutter free. And even if they are clutter free, I would assume people would prefer a new background to look at vs a room they see every day, and would switch to full VR mode almost always. * The ability to converse with someone with a digital version of your eyes being displayed to them seems useful for conversations that last at-most 5 seconds. After that, people will demand you take off your Vision Pros and converse with them face-to-face. * The demoed avatar version of you for Facetime lives smack dab in the middle of Uncanny Valley. I would not Facetime with someone using Vision Pro if another option was possible, or substantial improvements were made to make the avatar more realistic * External use of the 3d camera - The demo shows what appears to be a dad interacting with his kids while wearing the headset and capturing a moment using the 3D camera. Later he watches the 3D video he captured, reliving that moment. They could just call this feature the "Noncustodial Parent" feature, because absolutely no one is going to wear Apple Ski Goggles TM while interacting with their children, unless they are extremely desperate to draw out a few special moments into a year's worth of memories.