Apple Vision Pro: social media gets a taste of forbidden fruit

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Police, meanwhile, have hauled away drivers with headsets on while their cars run on autopilot. Every twist and turn in this futuristic saga is being captured on viral social media posts since the mixed-reality headset from Apple reached consumers earlier in February, only a fortnight after the technology giant had announced pre-orders for the Vision Pro, marking its latest product release after the Apple Watch in 2015.

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The rolling waves of consumer interest that the headset is drawing has prompted technology analysts to bill it as “the most complicated consumer device ever created”. Harmeet Singh Walia, senior analyst at Counterpoint Research, reckons “this is perhaps Apple’s most important new device since at least the smart watch, or some say the iPhone itself.”

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What's the excitement about?

The so-called ‘spatial computer’ seamlessly blends physical and digital worlds across domains of work and play.

To be sure, early traction for the Vision Pro is largely in the areas of entertainment and gaming, or in cases of personal productive enhancement such as meditation or for leisure.

Social media is rife with videos of users trying it out in the pool, using it to read recipes