Lots of surprises on the downside from all the reviews. Pass through much more limited in quality with motion blur, pixelation, distortions, limited color and dynamic range. The eye tracking driven input method which was seen as holy grail turns out to be annoying after a while because people don't naturally always look at what they want to click on. Personas straight up aren't ready. The lack of AR features is the biggest surprise. They tried hard to avoid it being a VR device but all the actual high quality experiences, especially the ones people are impressed by are the VR ones.
For me the biggest issue though is that it can't fulfil it's primary use cases:
Want it for productivity? it can't run MacOS applications and if you want to use your actual Mac it can't do multiple monitors.
Want it for entertainment? people want to enjoy photos, videos, movies with other people and it can't include them. Even if they have a Vision Pro, I haven't yet seen any sign of ability for multiple people to do these things together.
All up, it all seems far more immature and dev-kit stage than I was expecting.
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Vision Pro is a dud
And it costs too much. $4600 with taxes and other stuff. Most Americans are in debt and living paycheck to paycheck. And the ones who can afford it, will be unemployed soon enough as the job numbers that get reported to the Fed get revised and revised and revised. With all the debt accumulating in America, recession is going to hit sooner then later (even after the soft landing).