**A Unique Demo Experience with Apple's Vision Pro Headset**
I had the opportunity to experience the latest innovation from Apple, the Vision Pro headset, which promises to revolutionize the way we interact with 3D content. I put it through its paces, and let me tell you, it was a truly immersive experience. I was transported to different environments, witnessing stunning visuals that left me in awe.
As I began my demo, I found myself standing in front of Alicia Keys singing on stage. The music was captivating, and I could see every detail of her performance, from the piano to her hands as she played. It felt like I was right there with her, and I couldn't help but tap my foot along with the beat. But that was just the beginning – the demo quickly shifted gears, taking me on a journey through breathtaking landscapes and intimate close-ups of baby rhinos walking towards me.
The visuals were stunning, with every detail so sharp and clear that it felt like I could reach out and touch them. The demo also showcased unique perspectives on sports, such as watching a soccer game from the top of the goal net or baseball from near the dugout. It was an incredible sensory overload, but in a good way – I was completely engaged and eager to see more.
One aspect that stood out during the demo was how seamless it felt to use the headset. The setup process was incredibly quick, and I didn't have to worry about recalibrating when I took off the headset or handed it over to someone else. This level of convenience is a major plus, making it feel like the Vision Pro truly belongs to me.
The demo also highlighted Apple's focus on entertainment as its top priority. The experience was designed to tug at your heartstrings and inspire you to dive into new worlds. I found myself getting caught up in the emotional aspect of the demo, feeling a sense of wonder and awe that was hard to shake off.
As I continued through the demo, I began to think about what else could be possible with this technology. Would it be used for gaming? Could I explore new forms of storytelling? These questions swirled in my mind as I left the demo experience behind.
However, there is another aspect of the Vision Pro that's gaining attention – 3D photos and videos. Apple fans have been experimenting with what's possible using this technology, and a crowdsource database called "Shar Spatial" has emerged to share their creations. The site allows users to upload and view spatial content, providing a platform for creators to showcase their work.
If you're interested in experiencing the Vision Pro for yourself, Apple offers demo sessions at its stores. You can book an appointment or walk-in if available, and even speak with someone from the store for guidance. While I didn't have the chance to try it out myself during this article, I encourage readers to check it out and share their own experiences.
In conclusion, my experience with the Vision Pro headset was nothing short of breathtaking. From the emotional connection it inspired to the sheer excitement of exploring new worlds, Apple has truly hit the mark with its latest innovation. While there's still much to be discovered about what this technology can do, one thing is clear – it's going to change the way we interact with 3D content forever.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay now there's rhinoceroses on top of me does everyone do this when they get the demo do they start putting their hands up the way most people will experience the Apple Vision Pro is by walking into an Apple store and getting a demo I have been covering the Vision Pro for weeks but this reporter had one more area to explore what does Apple show customers when they test drive a luxury headset I had to get my own Apple store demo to find out if this is the only interaction people may have with mixed reality Apple needs to make a good first impression what happens in 30 minutes to make customers want to spend their money and take the leap into spatial Computing so earlier this week I visited the flagship New York City store on Fifth Avenue to get the full Apple experience I'm Bridget Cary and this is one more thing all right taking Vision Pro for a test drive Apple store employees are your guide on your Vision Pro Journey my store guide was Quinn and he made sure everything fit well and he walked me through all the controls and directing me toward apps to try the whole time your guide can see what you are doing on an iPad and that makes it pretty smooth okay I would need you to teach me that or watch some sort of tutorial that I wouldn't even know that I should point out here that I could not capture what was going on inside the headset during my demo but I'm going to show you examples of what I saw some things we recreated some footage is what Apple made in promotional videos and the Whole 30 minute demo really flew by for me but I'm just going to give you the big highlights after the headset is calibrated to your eyes you learn just by jumping into it it starts with the photos app you are seeing these vibrant professionally shot photos which are way more stunning than any of my vacation photos the cool stuff is the panoramic nature scenes and of course spatial photos and videos in 3D you may have seen example videos that Apple shows where you see kids blowing out candles on a birthday cake but I am telling you that in the demo it is so big in front of you it's like I can stick my nose in the birthday cake there is a very strong brain connection because of how close it all feels that's really cute they they up the cuteness on that one there is an Artistry to the types of 3D scenes Apple created and while you're in the demo you're thinking what could I do with 3D video yeah it's very big it's like it's like if you were standing there but I also still know I'm in the Apple Store we then jumped into the immersive background environments this is what I think of as The Vision Pro wallpaper you turn the dial up on the crown and you leave the Apple store and find yourself at a peaceful lake at Mount Hood in Oregon Mount Hood that's so neat your eyes see everything so Crystal Clear now this recording does not do it justice because the only thing clear in the screen capture recording is what your eyes are focusing on at the moment but I could see every little detail honestly when you when you pause and you can see all the tiny little minute Pebbles and gravel on like you expect your foot to be there like I expect to just be standing right there that's that's the detail that Wows me the most they had me read some text on Safari I opened up a recipe app and then just a few minutes later we are back at Mount Hood and it's raining ever so lightly you can see each droplet hit the lake it's raining it's it's raining now in my environment it was not raining before I don't feel wet but I I see it I hear it I can see the rain really far away too it's is a light rain it's like a sun shower if you will but that that's that's weird it just wait the environment just changed throughout the day it does it does so not only are people going to feel wowed by being transported to what is essentially a living wallpaper but at this point in the demo I have complete ownership of my space I am moving Windows anywhere I want I am reading things up close or further away and now it's the finale they're taking me to the movies you open up Apple TV and we are taken to clips from Avatar the way of water it's a movie designed for 3D and I'm seeing characters swimming with sea creatures just coming right at me Apple is using James Cameron to sell this thing but also Apple used Mario as in the Super Mario Brothers movie just a few seconds of a scene with Princess Peach Mario and Toad looking out over the kingdom and awe with an epic sound bite they knew exactly what clip they were picking for this and same with the water these short clips are invoking feelings of bigness of otherworldliness like the hope of the future is just placed right in front of you even though I'm still at a plain wood table in a store the grand finale pulls out all the best tricks of 3D there's this collection of immersive video clips from special shows on Apple Vision Pro now it starts with this shock what that you're seeing Alicia key singing right smack in front of you didn't expect that this was not like a normal movie all of this content is just hugging you in 180° of 8K 3D okay I'm seeing Alicia Keys singing right in front of me like I can touch her Steinway I can touch her mic even oh my gosh you are jumping from clip to clip big open Landscapes then bam close-ups of baby rhinos walking right up to you these are stunning visuals places I will likely never visit and someone is walking a Highline 3 ,000 ft above Norway's FS yeah it was a good thing I was sitting down there were teases of what is possible with sports I saw unique perspectives I'm watching a soccer game from the top of the goal net I'm watching baseball from Near The Dugout as a player runs to first base it's just a couple of minutes of sensory overload and I am eating it all up with a spoon I would watch a whole nature program like this this was not my first time putting on the Vision Pro headset I got a walk through when I borrowed the headset from Cena reviewer Scott Stein I have a link here to the whole video on what it's like to share Vision Pro with someone else if you want to check that out and what was really different about this demo compared to sharing one with someone else is if you take off the headset in your demo you can put it right back on without recalibrating you do not have to go through setup again like you do if you share it with someone else that also strengthens this feeling of ownership and control and confidence you have during your store demo makes you feel like it's yours but this store demo taught me what Apple believes is the best feature and that is entertainment 100% before leaving my demo I asked what if someone comes here and has questions about what it's like to work on this machine what about typing on it and yes your demo guide can pivot to help answer your questions I was shown what it's like to practice a keynote presentation in the Steve Jobs theater and I opened up a notepad to try typing which was not impressive after watching all those cool AK immersive videos I think if I was to do a demo again I would want to try typing with a real keyboard in front of me but I think by focusing on family home movies of kids and showing you what's possible in the very best of entertainment apple is hitting on the unique and emotional side of this Tech making you think about your own family memories making you want to dive into new worlds and feel a sense of awe yeah apple is spending that demo moment tugging on your dreams and your heart strings and it did tug on my face if just a little I found myself trying to adjust it a bit throughout so it didn't feel too tight or too heavy and I think if the demo went longer than 30 minutes I would be feeling it more I walked away confident in using it with a little bit of desire to keep poking around there was no talk about gaming what else could I see with just a little more time I want more baby rhinos for sure though please transport me to baby rhino land any time I'm not feeling like I need to buy one right now but it did really make me curious on what could potentially come with entertainment I might get the fomo feelings later this is going to be an interesting time of people tinkering with 3D content and seeing what's possible oh and there's one more one more thing a lot of folks are testing out what is possible with 3D photos and videos in Vision Pro and it's being shared for anyone to check out there's a crowdsource database of spatial videos and panoramas the site is called Shar spatial everything.com and some Vision Pro fans got together to create this place to share their photography if you go to an Apple store to demo The Vision Pro there are all these professional 3D photos and videos pre-loaded in the walk through but when you take it home you only get to see what's in your photo library so the best way to see what's possible in 3D is to just have people share their own spatial content with others you can take your own spatial videos with the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max in landscape video you just got to click on the little Vision Pro icon to record it in 3D and if you do not have a Vision Pro to view it well these files also can be viewed inside a meta Quest headset if you want to do your own Vision Pro demo you can book an appointment on apple.com or the Apple Store app and you can also talk to someone in the store if there is availability for walk-ins if you had a store demo please tell me in the comments how you felt about the experience and was it much different than mine what is the biggest thing you want to test out if you got to take it for a spin thanks for watching and I'll catch you next timeokay now there's rhinoceroses on top of me does everyone do this when they get the demo do they start putting their hands up the way most people will experience the Apple Vision Pro is by walking into an Apple store and getting a demo I have been covering the Vision Pro for weeks but this reporter had one more area to explore what does Apple show customers when they test drive a luxury headset I had to get my own Apple store demo to find out if this is the only interaction people may have with mixed reality Apple needs to make a good first impression what happens in 30 minutes to make customers want to spend their money and take the leap into spatial Computing so earlier this week I visited the flagship New York City store on Fifth Avenue to get the full Apple experience I'm Bridget Cary and this is one more thing all right taking Vision Pro for a test drive Apple store employees are your guide on your Vision Pro Journey my store guide was Quinn and he made sure everything fit well and he walked me through all the controls and directing me toward apps to try the whole time your guide can see what you are doing on an iPad and that makes it pretty smooth okay I would need you to teach me that or watch some sort of tutorial that I wouldn't even know that I should point out here that I could not capture what was going on inside the headset during my demo but I'm going to show you examples of what I saw some things we recreated some footage is what Apple made in promotional videos and the Whole 30 minute demo really flew by for me but I'm just going to give you the big highlights after the headset is calibrated to your eyes you learn just by jumping into it it starts with the photos app you are seeing these vibrant professionally shot photos which are way more stunning than any of my vacation photos the cool stuff is the panoramic nature scenes and of course spatial photos and videos in 3D you may have seen example videos that Apple shows where you see kids blowing out candles on a birthday cake but I am telling you that in the demo it is so big in front of you it's like I can stick my nose in the birthday cake there is a very strong brain connection because of how close it all feels that's really cute they they up the cuteness on that one there is an Artistry to the types of 3D scenes Apple created and while you're in the demo you're thinking what could I do with 3D video yeah it's very big it's like it's like if you were standing there but I also still know I'm in the Apple Store we then jumped into the immersive background environments this is what I think of as The Vision Pro wallpaper you turn the dial up on the crown and you leave the Apple store and find yourself at a peaceful lake at Mount Hood in Oregon Mount Hood that's so neat your eyes see everything so Crystal Clear now this recording does not do it justice because the only thing clear in the screen capture recording is what your eyes are focusing on at the moment but I could see every little detail honestly when you when you pause and you can see all the tiny little minute Pebbles and gravel on like you expect your foot to be there like I expect to just be standing right there that's that's the detail that Wows me the most they had me read some text on Safari I opened up a recipe app and then just a few minutes later we are back at Mount Hood and it's raining ever so lightly you can see each droplet hit the lake it's raining it's it's raining now in my environment it was not raining before I don't feel wet but I I see it I hear it I can see the rain really far away too it's is a light rain it's like a sun shower if you will but that that's that's weird it just wait the environment just changed throughout the day it does it does so not only are people going to feel wowed by being transported to what is essentially a living wallpaper but at this point in the demo I have complete ownership of my space I am moving Windows anywhere I want I am reading things up close or further away and now it's the finale they're taking me to the movies you open up Apple TV and we are taken to clips from Avatar the way of water it's a movie designed for 3D and I'm seeing characters swimming with sea creatures just coming right at me Apple is using James Cameron to sell this thing but also Apple used Mario as in the Super Mario Brothers movie just a few seconds of a scene with Princess Peach Mario and Toad looking out over the kingdom and awe with an epic sound bite they knew exactly what clip they were picking for this and same with the water these short clips are invoking feelings of bigness of otherworldliness like the hope of the future is just placed right in front of you even though I'm still at a plain wood table in a store the grand finale pulls out all the best tricks of 3D there's this collection of immersive video clips from special shows on Apple Vision Pro now it starts with this shock what that you're seeing Alicia key singing right smack in front of you didn't expect that this was not like a normal movie all of this content is just hugging you in 180° of 8K 3D okay I'm seeing Alicia Keys singing right in front of me like I can touch her Steinway I can touch her mic even oh my gosh you are jumping from clip to clip big open Landscapes then bam close-ups of baby rhinos walking right up to you these are stunning visuals places I will likely never visit and someone is walking a Highline 3 ,000 ft above Norway's FS yeah it was a good thing I was sitting down there were teases of what is possible with sports I saw unique perspectives I'm watching a soccer game from the top of the goal net I'm watching baseball from Near The Dugout as a player runs to first base it's just a couple of minutes of sensory overload and I am eating it all up with a spoon I would watch a whole nature program like this this was not my first time putting on the Vision Pro headset I got a walk through when I borrowed the headset from Cena reviewer Scott Stein I have a link here to the whole video on what it's like to share Vision Pro with someone else if you want to check that out and what was really different about this demo compared to sharing one with someone else is if you take off the headset in your demo you can put it right back on without recalibrating you do not have to go through setup again like you do if you share it with someone else that also strengthens this feeling of ownership and control and confidence you have during your store demo makes you feel like it's yours but this store demo taught me what Apple believes is the best feature and that is entertainment 100% before leaving my demo I asked what if someone comes here and has questions about what it's like to work on this machine what about typing on it and yes your demo guide can pivot to help answer your questions I was shown what it's like to practice a keynote presentation in the Steve Jobs theater and I opened up a notepad to try typing which was not impressive after watching all those cool AK immersive videos I think if I was to do a demo again I would want to try typing with a real keyboard in front of me but I think by focusing on family home movies of kids and showing you what's possible in the very best of entertainment apple is hitting on the unique and emotional side of this Tech making you think about your own family memories making you want to dive into new worlds and feel a sense of awe yeah apple is spending that demo moment tugging on your dreams and your heart strings and it did tug on my face if just a little I found myself trying to adjust it a bit throughout so it didn't feel too tight or too heavy and I think if the demo went longer than 30 minutes I would be feeling it more I walked away confident in using it with a little bit of desire to keep poking around there was no talk about gaming what else could I see with just a little more time I want more baby rhinos for sure though please transport me to baby rhino land any time I'm not feeling like I need to buy one right now but it did really make me curious on what could potentially come with entertainment I might get the fomo feelings later this is going to be an interesting time of people tinkering with 3D content and seeing what's possible oh and there's one more one more thing a lot of folks are testing out what is possible with 3D photos and videos in Vision Pro and it's being shared for anyone to check out there's a crowdsource database of spatial videos and panoramas the site is called Shar spatial everything.com and some Vision Pro fans got together to create this place to share their photography if you go to an Apple store to demo The Vision Pro there are all these professional 3D photos and videos pre-loaded in the walk through but when you take it home you only get to see what's in your photo library so the best way to see what's possible in 3D is to just have people share their own spatial content with others you can take your own spatial videos with the iPhone 15 pro and pro Max in landscape video you just got to click on the little Vision Pro icon to record it in 3D and if you do not have a Vision Pro to view it well these files also can be viewed inside a meta Quest headset if you want to do your own Vision Pro demo you can book an appointment on apple.com or the Apple Store app and you can also talk to someone in the store if there is availability for walk-ins if you had a store demo please tell me in the comments how you felt about the experience and was it much different than mine what is the biggest thing you want to test out if you got to take it for a spin thanks for watching and I'll catch you next time\n"
