Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer

Were all of the promises of mobile fully realized? No, but about 60% were (uber, increased mobility, notifications, shopping, news, mail, 80% of use cases previously handled by desktop only, etc.).

Consider the use cases of full 3d immersion at crisp, high resolution (not seen until now). If 60% of them are realized we won't want to go back to 2d. These use cases could include: smart-home monitoring but in a doll-house-sized model of your actual house. Infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) monitoring but in a 3d-architecture diagram that you can inspect at a high level. Imagine how much more infrastructure you can manage (similar to Star-Wars-esque zooming in and out of planets). If even 60% of that is realized 2d will never feel the same. And we will evolve use 3d for any type of semi-complex user interface with the need to abstract and still dive deep into data.

The display gives instantly 2-3x horizontal v. vertical resolution. That's insane. But also it gives let's say 2-3x depth resolution. Obviously you can't see more things if you have windows in front of you stacked (the depth pixels aren't as valuable as the x and y plane). But they're still quite valuable and allow for much better management of what's in front of you. And much better modeling of real-world objects; they're a much richer model of the world -- and all software is a model of the world in some ways.

They "re-charge" the 2-3x horizontal and vertical resolution and in total give something like a 5x resolution. That approaching an order of magnitude more resolution. If anything is limited by not being able to see enough on the screen, you now have approaching an order of magnitude more space. That has the power to revolutionize what we can manage and manipulate in terms of analyzing and building things. If you had a monitor/new paradigm that's 5x resolution that you can actually fully use, could you do parts of your job 2x more quickly? Could do you 3x more work in some areas? Can you build unimaginable things that previously with less bandwidth couldn't really be mustered up (e.g., imagine the first extremely small resolution Macintosh SE). That's the potential power.

Of course the FOV was narrow and the resolution was probably too small for virtual monitors, and I don't know what the battery life was like. But this was so long ago, and then they just... stopped. I can't remember the last time Microsoft announced anything in mixed-reality. Maybe that Minecraft demo?

I'd love to be a fly on that wall

With that said, as others have commented, the iPhone and iPad and maybe the watch are just the form factors that make sense. Science fiction from Star Trek to the Expanse has…iPads.

I appreciate that the investment community has been waiting for a new iPhone like the USSR was waiting for a second front, but when Carmack says the batteries don’t work for the graphics?

Yeah, I’m wait and see.