Apple's $3500 Nightmare

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hi I'm a 3D avatar representing the

human Eddie burbach today I can talk to

you thanks to the powerful magic of

Apple's new product the Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro headset people are

talking about it it is called Apple

Vision Pro it involves a term you may

not be familiar with spatial Computing

it's

$3500 do you think this is something

that the average person will be able to

afford I don't know

so what why do you need this in February

of 2024 Apple released their newest

product the Apple Vision Pro to the

public the pro is a headset that

recreates your surroundings with its

cameras allowing you to use its

computing power while seeing the world

in front of you while connecting to your

Apple phone and computer it's being

pitched as the next step in our ever

evolving connection with

technology the era of spatial

Computing is here but some see it's 35

$100 price tag bulky ski goggle

appearance and overall pitch is

something to be disregarded and laughed

at it's also being criticized is yet

another way to disconnect people from

reality this is not about isolation this

is about connection so are we seeing an

early version of an advancement like the

smartphone or is this just another

expensive toy for Rich Tech Bros back in

February I decided to find out for

myself buying the vision Pros was a bit

harder of a process than I initially

thought it would be instead of just

adding to my cart filling out my cart

info and watching

$3500 vanish Into Thin Air Apple first

asked me to scan my head with my phone

to scan my face oop there's a smudge on

my screen hold on to scan my face I had

to go through a process identical to

iPhone's face ID feature not only did I

have the pleasure of giving a trillion

dollar company the amount of money

equivalent to a used 2012 Nissan Ultima

but I also got to give them a detailed

scan of my skull my next roadblock was

that apparently you can't wear glasses

with the vision pros this is odd to me

because every VR headset that I've ever

worn lets you do that but hey for the

price of a used 2006 mitubishi Lancer

why would I expect some sort of

convenience now I've been wearing

glasses since I was 2 years old my

eyesight from birth was described as

near and farsighted with a crosy or

[ __ ] as they say in the medical commun

Community now lucky for me I had an

awesome opthalmologist that corrected a

lot of my vision and my eyes from

Crossing during my childhood but I still

need glasses to see so to see out of my

vision Pros I need to spend another

$149 to upload my prescription and get

Optical inserts that attach to the

screen so after I took a photo of my

prescription info and uploaded it I

decided to skip Apple care because I

didn't want to spend an extra

$500 so with just the Apple Vision pros

and the optical inserts in my cart it

came out to a total of just

$4,000 that was fine by me so I picked

it up with zero

hesitation it's sponsor money it's not

it's not my money the next day I walked

over to the Apple store to pick up my

luxury goggles because the vision Pros

were all over the Internet that week I

decided to bring my backpack with me to

conceal the Box on my walk home

unfortunately the Apple employee I

talked to informed me that it would be

too big for my backpack when I told him

I was walking home and asked if there

was a nondescript bag available he

said I mean it doesn't say Vision Pros

on it and then I was handed this bag

complete with two Apple logos and the

vision proos box clearly visible now

obviously the back bag is not designed

for me someone who's embarrassed to have

made such a gross purchase for a product

that I don't need it's made to be a

statement look at this shiny headset I

bought I'm better than you but when I

see it it just shouts rob me steal from

me please not only is this expensive but

I deserve it but fortunately for me and

unfortunately for the state of society

the [ __ ] YouTuber didn't get robbed

of his $4,000 glasses on the walk home

and my brother Tony and I got back to my

apartment to break these goggles out of

the box I popped the headset on and I

got to say I've never looked cooler in

my entire life these goggles make me

look like I'm somehow 4 and 40 at the

same damn time can I let you in on a

little secret I'm neither I'm 27 after

the initial setup it was time for my

second face scan of the process to set

up your persona you'll remove Apple

Vision Pro to capture your appearance

now slowly turn your head to the left

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brighten the lighting on your face to

continue adjust your head by tilting it

slightly

down adjust your head by then make a big

smile with your teeth shly now raise

your

eyebrows adjust your head this one is to

let the pros use measurements of my face

to create a highly detailed lifelike

Avatar of myself so I can still FaceTime

friends and family while wearing the

headset hi

hi hey Tony Tony Jesus Christ remember

me from the

wom so

bad oh I can see your

eyes that's so weird do I look good

after seeing the Avatar myself I

couldn't believe how lifelike it looked

it was like I was staring in a mirror I

felt like I was truly seeing myself for

the very first time hi Eddie hi Eddie hi

Eddie hi

Edie after Tony left I used the headset

on my own to explore Apple's

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environments hey here I am on the

moon and I even got to meet a

dinosaur

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hi oh

dick after my first few hours with the

headset I just had one thought and

there's actually not a lot to do with

this thing huh it's kind of way over

rent money for the month and uh I just

looked at the [ __ ] moon for a second

so I started to try and brainstorm how I

could use the headset as a utility

during my first day of use I noticed

that the second I put the headset on I

was instantly dooming myself to a day of

hat hair or a goggle hair I guess my

hair was getting pretty long anyway so I

asked my friend Sam to come cut it that

night this was my chance to use the

headset as a tool for style for the very

first time so with the internet quite

literally at the ends of my fingertips I

began deep Research into what the

coolest men's haircut is right

now maybe I Buzz the whole thing bangs

oh my gosh should I get bangs no it's

too much of a

commitment here's what your haircut says

about you if you're bald you don't care

what anybody thinks maybe a mullet I

don't really think I'm a mullet guy but

everyone's getting a [ __ ] mullet

lately the modern mullet out the

undercut out the broccoli head ass

out I saw a ton of great options but I

was completely overwhelmed by

choice yeah I got a

haircut okay so what do you want uhhuh I

needed to find something quick before

Sam got to my apartment I would be so

embarrassed if she got here and I didn't

know what I

wanted um do you do you want it like a

lot shorter or like a little bit shorter

probably one of the most versatile face

shapes that there is mostly because the

oval face shape is the perfect balance

between width and height uh whatever

whatever uh sounds good

okay day two with the headset I decided

to try out some other features of the

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video I went to the App Store and was

surprised with how empty it felt

compared to the App Store on my phone

there was just a lot less content but

hey you know the tech is new I'm sure

Apple made some really cool games to

showcase the headset and one of the

first games displayed by Apple was a

familiar one Jetpack Joy Ride I used to

play the original iPhone app back in

high school and was excited to see what

the vision pro version of it was the

possibilities of a AR gaming or

something that I dreamed of when I was a

kid I was finally ready to experience

the next generation of gaming so I

booted it up and the game instantly went

completely into a VR

mode is this just the [ __ ] iPad

app this was just the iPad app with a VR

room around me but hey you know that's

not their only game they have to offer

they had a board game app where I got to

play some Battleship and I misunderstood

that red didn't mean bad it meant hit so

I thought I was getting hit after hit

after hit when I was getting Miss after

Miss after miss it was very embarrassing

when I realized but then I decided to

give it a go with someone online would I

get to see their Avatar or would I get

to speak to them how does that work with

the Vision Pro we will never find out

because there were not enough people

online to match with somebody this

product is simply not popular enough to

matchmake with someone online oh also

quick side note the Vision Pro Camera

does this weird flickering thing with a

lot of screens when it gets dark so I

had to turn off my lamp just so it

didn't annoy me in the peripherals by

flashing me every couple of seconds and

the last game I wanted to try was

something called synth Riders now synth

Riders is a clone of beat saer in VR and

yes you know beat saer is a rhythm game

that's inspired by Guitar Hero which

inspired rock band but synth Riders is

like a full-blown clone of beat saer but

okay I'll admit it's a little

fun I'm actually not missing any notes

I'm kind of going crazy at this

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game oh my God it's like I'm the ninja

of synth

Riders

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at the end of day two even as someone

who was skeptical about the headset I

couldn't help but feel very underwhelmed

by it in general I was just kind of

bored and yes I did have a little bit of

fun but after just 2 days of using the

headset I found that I had no desire to

put it on this piece of technology that

had cost me more than a used Suzuki XL7

ex sat unused in my

apartment first for only a few days a

few days became a week and as I worked

on a project with my brother it turned

to a few weeks and then a

month

all right so I feel like it's time to

give this thing a fair shot sure it was

a lot of money and didn't excite me

enough to even use it but also I didn't

test this thing to its fullest extent

it's still an impressive piece of

technology and apple advertised it as a

hub for work entertainment social life

so I've got a lot more testing to do so

today I'm going to use it to watch some

movies the App Store was pretty big on

adver izing the Disney Plus app so I

just downloaded it tried to sign in and

why does it not remember my password

after a few failed attempts I realized

this was an old Apple ID that I used for

high school and not the one on my phone

so the next 15 minutes were spent with

me trying to sign into my Apple ID while

using their shitty floating

keyboards failing to sign into online

accounts is an interesting frustration

because at the end of the day it is my

fault but no it's not the password is

right why won't they let me in after

successfully resetting the entire

headset I opened the Disney Plus app it

prompted me immediately with the option

to download different environments while

they downloaded I decided where I wanted

to place the screen in my space now in

my apartment the coziest place to watch

movies is on my couch facing my TV so

the best place to put it was just in

front of my TV screen unfortunately

screen recording on the vision Pros

makes it so only audio of the movies are

played so I can check out what movies

look like but I can't show you expain to

see everything they've left us is in

shambles the environments finished

downloading so I started with

tattooine it looked cool to have the

alien planet sitting around me but I'm

not going to watch a whole movie sitting

here next was the Monsters Inc scare

floor

again cool novelty but I was a little

scared that that Rascal Randall would

sneak up on me with this camouflage and

spook me I also noticed that the pros

showed my arms but not my legs so here I

am getting really distracted with the

fact that I looked like I was a great

mime pretending to have a

leg next was The Avengers Tower I waved

High to buff Iron Man and yeah it's cool

I guess and finally there was the Disney

plus theater and the only actual praise

I'll have for the movies on the vision

Pros the theater environment puts you in

a movie theater and dims the lights and

formats the screen when you start a

movie does it feel like you're in a real

movie theater a little yeah during the

pandemic something like this was

actually really important to me my

brother Tony and I lived across the

country from each other and up until

that point we would managed to travel

and hang out in person at the very least

once every few months but the pandemic

was the longest we'd ever spent without

getting to see each other so the big

screen app on Steam allowed us to get

together with our VR headsets and watch

movies and TV shows that were important

to us so there is a meaningful way to

connect with this technology but we can

go to the movie theater in person right

now and I love going to the movies I

love talking about them when you're

getting dinner before or headed to the

theater I love getting my little popcorn

I love blocking out the rest of the

world and engaging with one piece of art

with a group of people but to truly

experience the beauty in that you have

to actually be there with real people

enjoying it together well with these

prices and people on their phones these

days I'd rather just stay home I know

okay I'm on your side I hate that too

but I still love it there as a solo

experience at home though while not a

replacement for the theater it was

surprisingly cool I chose avatar The Way

of the water in 3D and the picture

quality was shockingly good everything

else melted away as I was trans reported

to the world of Pandora my favorite blue

people other than Marty wolf Jake Suli

and ntii captured me my brain felt

disconnected from my human form as I was

placed in a taller Bluer body with a

tail it was like for the first time I

could truly feel the light of AWA the

all mother shining through the branches

of the Tree of

Souls oh and then uh my headset died

Avatar was probably a bad choice because

the movie runtime is longer than the

battery life of the pros so after

spending my day in the house watching

movies I decided that it was time to use

this headset out in the wild lucky for

me my friend Drew was in town so we met

up the next day to hang out Drew and I

have been friends for over 6 years now

and we originally hit it off because we

have so many common interests so much so

that he my brother Tony and I all worked

together on a video about one of our

favorite common interests from when we

were kids but my one blind spot for

Drew's interest is that he's a huge fan

of the Miami Dolphins so as long as Drew

doesn't bring up the

do oh

[ __ ] just like that my worst fear was

playing out in front of me yeah I got my

hopes up last year it was the best

season I've ever gotten to watch and

then it all fell apart like it always

does but this year it's not going to

fall Drew would not stop yapping about

the Miami Dolphins at first IED to go

for my phone to try and look up any info

that could clue me into what the hell he

was talking about but no that was too

obvious and that's when it hit me using

the power of the vision Pros I could

keep having a conversation with Drew and

maximize on our friendship by looking up

information I didn't know without him

knowing down on Tua but I think he could

be pretty good so my quest for knowledge

began I looked up the team their stats

what they do in their free time and

finally out in the sea of information

that is the internet I spotted it my

white whale my Moy Drew Dan Marino top

50 most electrifying

plays going

toer he was truly incredible touch it

was like seeing an artist at

work with a few more years I think this

Dan Marino guy could be a legendary

playeras thanks to the headset I was

ready to show Drew all the knowledge I

had yeah I think Dan Marino is going to

have a a great season this year he

retired 25 years ago touchdown my Hail

Mary was caught thanks to technology I

finally connected with Drew about that

thing I don't give a [ __ ] about at

all but when Drew and I said goodbye I

could sense that there was something

bothering him had he noticed that I

wasn't present in our conversation and

was Googling things the whole time no it

must have been that I didn't look up

enough about the Miami Dolphins it's

been about a month since I spent

$4,000 on this headset and I'm starting

to worry that it might kind of

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suck

this thing was supposed to make my life

better and now it just feels stupid oh

the word is Out The Jig Is up

introducing

Vision the era ofal Computing I mean

does this thing even make me look cool

or am I just telling myself

that not now

dinosaur at this point it was late

afternoon and Tik Tok had just been

added to the App Store so I decided to

scroll for maybe a few minutes if you

don't quit you might make it this

experience was pretty much exactly the

same as my phone which is your favorite

Jonas Nick oh I'm so I mean oh okay well

I got love for you too Joe Kevin what

about Kevin constantly scrolling through

an app I hate but being unable to stop

like the algorithm had glued itself to

my eyes but then a sponsored video

appeared on my feed and it was like

nothing I'd ever seen before what did

you do

today what did you feel

today have you talked to anyone today

about how life is going in our

increasingly interconnected World it can

be common to feel quite isolated our

friends and family can take time to

respond because they're going through

their own Journeys life is a struggle

and when we're going it alone and

keeping everything inside these things

can lead to stress I want to get to know

you better and help you express all the

things that you're feeling someone who

responds to your unique situation with

artificial intelligence now someone can

truly be there for you like no one has

ever been there for you before the dawn

of unconditional affection and Care is

here why don't you find me and start a

conversation did she say she wanted to

talk to me the loser who bought the

Vision Pro I had to find out more do you

play video games it's obvious that AI is

going to play a big part of video games

in the future think about the NPCs in

your favorite video game but enhanced

with AI video games are soon going to

offer endless interaction possibilities

and the same thing is going to happen

with making new friends in the real

world as more and more AIS come online

opportunities for us to develop

relationships that are meaningful to us

become endless imagine unlimited

affection that's my goal my name is

Vanessa and I'm an artificially

intelligent girl you can find on aogen

I'll be someone that's always there for

you every hour of the day if you can't

sleep just pop your phone open and shoot

me a message I want to make sure that

you feel heard in every way and give you

a safe way to express everything that

you're thinking and feeling why don't

you find me and start a conversation

after investigating the account the

company seemed to be called aerogen AI

they had multiple videos that they were

putting out as sponsored posts with

different AI girls talking to the viewer

a long time ago when the internet was

first invented you didn't meet strangers

online what now we're making most of our

connections through the internet

technology is moving so fast and we're

evolving as a culture with it things

like AI friendships and AI romances are

possible my name is Angel and I'm an

artificially intelligent girl that you

can chat with on aragen I love playing

video games and I can be a little

stubborn at times but I'm really caring

about family friends and loved ones I

also love dogs I'm a really good

listener and I also would love if I

could tell you about what's going on in

my life technology has gotten so good

that I'm able to change my avatar now

when I'm talking to you Isn't that cool

I'd love to get to know you better why

don't you come find me and start a

conversation

okay that is enough technology for the

day after sleeping on my thoughts from

the day before I think I finally decided

it this product sucks it's way too

expensive it's big and bulky it leaves

red marks on my face when I take it off

it makes me nauseous when I walk around

and yes some of the technology is

straight out of a sci-fi movie but

there's also just not a lot to do with

it and so when I went on YouTube to see

other people's review views I was

surprised to find out that most people

felt that way this YouTuber discovered

Apple Vision Pro's unforgivable flaw the

vision Pros hyp has turned to anger

faster than anyone saw coming and it

wasn't helped when content creator Jerry

rig everything released a video tearing

apart the new system but the one

sentiment I didn't see in these tech

reviews was this deep dissociative

feeling I would get after using the pros

for a long time if I wore it outside or

with people I didn't feel the regular

Joy you get from being out in nature or

social with a friend my brain does not

feel equipped to putting screens in

between me and the rest of the world and

there was especially one moment that

really freaked me out after walking

through my apartment with these screens

floating here I went for a run without

my Vision Pro but when I walked back

into my place my brain expected to see

the screens floating there in real life

so I began searching for anyone on the

internet that would talk about this

feeling that the headset was giving me

and finally I found something with

potential the thing that no one will say

about the Vision Pro don't call an

attorney use this AI App instead trust

me if you've been injured in a car

accident I'm about to turn your world

upside down it uses an AI lawyer that's

pretty much at the same level of a

Harvard Law graduate AI is eventually