This Friday, the first mixed reality headset Apple Vision Pro will be released on the US market. Some foreign publications were able to receive the news ahead of time and have already prepared reviews of this device. Let’s dwell on the main conclusions that reviewers made after testing Apple Vision Pro at home.

Vision Pro, according to Apple, is the beginning of spatial computing, which essentially boils down to running applications around the user.

With the new headset integrated into the Apple ecosystem, the user can perform various tasks – from watching movies or TV shows on a huge 4K HDR virtual display to displaying the work environment from Mac, including Excel, Webex and Slack.

What is important, the novelty allows you to run programs that hover around the user. So you can work with it in any convenient place.

The headset combines a number of technologies, solutions and devices that the user is forced to wear on the face. Therefore, the company had to make a number of compromises. For example, to reduce the load on the head, the headset receives energy from an external source. But even in this case, the device turned out to be quite heavy and may cause discomfort during prolonged use.

Apple Vision Pro is distinguished by a well-thought-out design, quality materials and good manufacturing. MicroOLED displays that provide high resolution, high brightness and good color rendering have been praised. Wearing the headset, the user is completely isolated from the surrounding world, but continues to see it through external cameras thanks to the function of end-to-end video transmission. However, this solution has some disadvantages, such as blurring of the image during movement, noise, limited color range and narrow field of view. They are especially evident in low light conditions.

The control system, taking into account the tracking of eye and hand movements, received special praise. It is “light years ahead of any other consumer hand or eye tracking system.”

“You look at the things you want to control, you tap with your fingers to control them, and that’s how you move around the whole interface. You don’t reach out and touch objects: faster than your eyes – it’s a mouse, and your fingers – a button. You squeeze them together to click on what you’re looking at.”

Although such a system is not always convenient. Sometimes it makes it difficult to use the headset because “having to look at what you want to control is actually very distracting.”

Overall, The Verge reviewer praised the Vision Pro for its excellent display, good hand and eye tracking, and seamless integration with Apple’s ecosystem.

At the same time, the novelty has a number of disadvantages, one of which is the high price of $3499. The image in pass-through video mode can be blurry, and the hand and eye tracking inconsistent and disappointing. The author of the review also points out that the characters are supernatural and somewhat terrifying, and the set is “quite lonely.”

We also suggest that you familiarize yourself with video reviews of Apple Vision Pro from various publications and bloggers.