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How Often Do You Use Apple Vision Pro?
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Every single day my man. Every day. It’s my new thing. I come home from work. Tired. Wanting time to decompress. I put on my Vision Pro and its a focused experience where i can just sit there and block everything else in the world out. I turn on do not disturb, watch Mario movie in 3d with my AirPods in sitting at a lake and just chill
As someone with anxiety and depression, its been an experience. I think I’ve needed a product like this for a long time
As someone with anxiety and depression, its been an experience. I think I’ve needed a product like this for a long time
Owned since uk released date, still using between 1-3 per week. It’s likely I’ll use it more this year now we have a massively improved experience when paired with a Mac.
To be frank, no matter how much I love AVP, but I only use it 1-3 per week.
And around ~60 mins per use.
I do love it, I do love ultra-wide screen, but it's a bit too heavy for me (even with Annapro 2).
And my work uses Office 365 Enterprise, which AVP doesn't have MS Company Portal, so I can't even use mail app on AVP for work, so no work can be done from AVP easily.
AVP is my ultimate entertainment device for me.
I purchased a lot of 3D movies, and I love watching on it.
No intention to sell it at all.
$4000 spent, no regrets
Can't wait for VisionOS 3
And around ~60 mins per use.
I do love it, I do love ultra-wide screen, but it's a bit too heavy for me (even with Annapro 2).
And my work uses Office 365 Enterprise, which AVP doesn't have MS Company Portal, so I can't even use mail app on AVP for work, so no work can be done from AVP easily.
AVP is my ultimate entertainment device for me.
I purchased a lot of 3D movies, and I love watching on it.
No intention to sell it at all.
$4000 spent, no regrets
Can't wait for VisionOS 3
I take it with me to work and use it whenever I need a lot of windows opened and/or privacy to work on certain documents or if my eyes are getting tired. At home, I use it to work, study and for media consumption. I also want to use it for gaming and I got some games for it, but I need time to play with it.
I don't watch my tv at all anymore and use Vision Pro daily to do so instead
Honestly I’ve been playing with my Meta Quest more frequently but appreciate how much more polished the AVP is. I have more fun with the Quest 3 though.
It’s my preferred travel entertainment screen even if I score a business class upgrade. Turns the bulkhead seat into a prime location. It’s still a bit awkward to eat the in-flight meal while wearing.
Also saves time and frustration in the hotel room instead of messing about with connecting to the infotainment box or signing into various streaming accounts on the tv.
Also saves time and frustration in the hotel room instead of messing about with connecting to the infotainment box or signing into various streaming accounts on the tv.
I use it almost everyday, for work/study during the day, and usually for media consumption at night. When working on the road, I bring it with me for the convenience of having an infinite canvas.
I usually reserve the time to eat to actually eat and relax. Then I go back to my movie with a focused mind fully immersed into the movie.
I might try it for work but the blocker is that my work laptop uses a separate work Apple ID. Seems like a pain in the but to switch Apple IDs (if only Apple support multiple user accounts on non-macOS devices).
I had this very same question when I was telling myself I wasn’t going to get the Apple Vision Pro and just stick with my quest three until Apple got the price down. Three demos later and months and months of me waffling about saying quest was good enough and I ended up getting the Vision Pro
I’ll say for games when I go back to the quest three it doesn’t feel like this huge crazy drop quality where I’m just like ew I can’t see anything. I think the quest three has pretty good screens. But when it comes to more serious content watching like HBO Max or YouTube, even I noticed a definite difference. I remember when I was really trying to convince myself not to get the Apple Vision Pro and I tried using my quest three as a media device and I was watching dune on it and I just felt nothing. Like the screen was fine, but like explosions would happen and I would feel absolutely nothing. Colors didn’t pop the resolution didn’t catch my eye. I just didn’t really care to watch it for more than a few minutes.
Then I got my Apple Vision Pro and the rest is history. I use it every single day, and I actually went to the movie theater recently and had the thought in my head man. This doesn’t look as good as my Apple vision pro at home. When i saying that to myself, i know the purchase is worth it.
I canceled my AMC A-List, I rather just wait a few weeks to watch films on the AVP.
Curious, how good of a theater was it? I haven't been in ages, and even then only the wide screen for adventure movies... then we invested in a 77 inch LG OLED and coupled with my surround system havent felt the need to go back. But even still, would say the theater probably would edge my system out for sheer visual ... just hate the overall theater experience with some idiot in the theater that cant keep quiet, and there is ALWAYS an idiot in the theater.
Have to admit, if I think about it, I do prefer the AVP experience for the more immersive feeling over my OLED tv, and the sound is amazingly spatial if you give up the physical boom of a subwoofer, but the OLED aint bad and I tend to watch more movies on it mostly cause the whole wife and socialization thing. Movie watch on the AVP is mostly relegated to when I travel or alone for whatever reason. Now I do admit, things that don't demand total concentration, like replying to email, reading MR, I do sometimes pull out the AVP when the wife is watching a cooking show. But then I can reply to her if she asks me a question. I hate to be interrupted in a movie lol.
Yeah I know, who cares? Sorry.
Theater experience
Man I’m gonna sound like such an old man here but ‘back in my day’ i feel like the theater experience was much better. Am i crazy here or did it become a hell of a lot more common place for people to talk during movies? To constantly get up during movies? To be on their phones with the brightness of their screens up at full blast for everyone to see in a dark theater?
The last i would say 4 times my wife and i went to the movies there was something annoying about the experience that just took me right out of it. I remember seeing terrifier 3. An objectively nasty movie that should be an adults only experience. We look over and see a group of kids there on the end of the row laughing at all the gory scenes like they’re oh so edgy. I could go on and on and on. But stuff like that
And just…noticing the flaws in the screen and picture quality when i go to movies compared to AVP. I’ll see a small tear in the screen. Or that the picture quality isn’t perfectly calibrated or slightly blurry from my seat. If my wife had her own Vision Pro and there was a seamless shared experience, we would probably never go to movies again. Lately I’ve only used them as an excuse to go out and get popcorn or wander around the mall. I’ve been to different theaters in Puyallup, Seattle, big cities, small ones. Regal. AMC. Cinemark. Whatever. My complaints about screen quality still stands.
Got myself a hot dog steamer, popcorn popper with liquid butter topping, a snack area. I find i can buy a first run movie on Apple TV and a crap ton of snacks at the store and I’m paying about a third of what i would at the movies without all the annoying inconveniences. I’m not bound to a certain showtime or a long drive to get there either. AND i get to own the movie.
If apple vision was priced at the level of an iPhone and this device became common place, idk where theaters would be. AVP seems to help my ADHD and keep me a bit more focused as well
Totally agree, hahahahah! And a big part of the “old movie experience” was that you didn’t get sick from eating at the theater.
You're right. There is no doubt that in the pursuit of 'respecting' everyone, manners were lost. confusing as heck, but the same people that virtue signal will sit on their phone in a theater and act entitled to be rude. That's why I don't miss going to theaters at all. Do miss the popcorn. Maybe I should get one of those theater style poppers!
My wife will never get an AVP. She prides herself on being something of a luddite as opposed to me. Strange dynamic but it works for us. I got her a new iPad for xmas, but can't pry out of her hands the 6 year old hand me down I gave her years ago. On the flip side, she doesn't begrudge my constant upgrading. In fact she encouraged me to get the AVP. I admit I was on the line, it is an expensive toy, but she just looked at me and said, 'why are we even talking about this as if you might not get it?'
No regrets here. The wife or the AVP.
Your wife sounds like someone I would be friends with and immensely respect
Love her commitment to device longevity also - A+
Oh she definitely is about longevity lol... gold and diamonds baby. There is a reason she doesn't begrudge my toys. She is my first priority. That and she respects those that work hard get to play hard
She's not about complaining for the sake of it though, she agrees with me on that.
Yeah, the wide and ultrawide virtual display might be a game changer for me.
The ultrawide gives 5120x1440 but discovered that you can set it to 7680x2160 from the Mac's Displays control panel.