Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Traveling With Apple Vision Pro

Azad Balabanian (via Federico Viticci):

The Vision Pro has quickly become an essential item that I take onto every flight.

It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a movie or just working on your laptop.

In this blog post, I’ll outline what I’ve learned about the Vision Pro while traveling, explain some of the functionality, shine light onto its drawbacks, as well as assess how it fares against solutions like a phone or a laptop.

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The problem is that for meals that require eyesight to coordinate (aka using a fork to pick up food from a plate), as soon as you look down at your food, the tracking often gets lost. This causes the movie to stop playing and for you to have to look forward for the tracking to re-initialize.

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Here, it doesn’t matter what my front seat neighbor does, I can just tilt my screen down, place the laptop on my lap or tray, pull up a virtual monitor, and get to work.

He uses a generic lens protector instead of the bulky Apple case, adds an Anker battery bank, and uses an extra third-party strap to make it more comfortable.

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