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It was honestly an incredible experience.

The flight had wifi and I had sprung for a seat with a charging port, so I was able to use it for nearly the entirety 6 hours of the flight with the exception of take off and landing.

I turned on travel mode before the plane started moving. I've heard that if you don't it can be buggy getting into travel mode.

After that I saw maybe one or two hitches. If I looked down the tracking would fail but otherwise it was smooth the whole way.

I would say that watching Mad Max with it projected out above the lake in Mount Hood was the best 3D movie experience I've had. That I was on a plane the whole time was almost inconsequential.

I also watched some youtube videos and wow presents+ videos. I could have used the in-flight entertainment as well, since it was streaming at high resolution through Safari.

I was able to text and do other stuff as well during the flight.

I felt a little self conscious wearing it when the flight attendant came by so I'd always pull it off my head each time. This messed with the volume of my bluetooth headphones.

But when I went to power down the headset for landing I saw someone else doing the same with his vision pro so I don't feel as bad about my wearing it.

Definitely an expensive device for the experience, but still incredible!

Yeah. You train it to recognize an object/image, and then you can respond to that however you want, programmatically. It's really cool for things like tabletop games.

For the how: Apple has APIs to including lightweight ML models for that sort of thing. You have to train a model, but for something like a card game it's super easy. For physical objects it requires more prep just because you have to take photos instead of using existing artwork... but it's still relatively straightforward.

I have a card game (a physical one, not virtual) and I want to "replace" the real cards with digital, animated, "living" ones. Ideally, I could apply this technique to other types of tabletop game, later... but cards are the current project.

This works fine on iOS and even in the Vision Pro simulator, but on hardware, the image recognition is slow and unreliable, and it doesn't track items through space in real-time. It's laggy and "floaty". Image recognition for unique, flat cards should be one of the simplest possible use-cases... and given how much more powerful the hardware is than a phone, and the fact that it works on the simulator, it sure seems like a software issue... but you can't ship Apps with such severe problems, either.

Ouch. Don't get me started on iPad "Pro". There is nothing "Pro" about a device that is so heavily sandboxed and restricted to only installing things from a single, heavily curated app store. 😫

Such great hardware and UX, ruined because their app distribution monopoly is more profitable than moving devices.