I appreciate this video. Both Adam and Norm share their genuine opinions based on over a year of experience with the Vision Pro. (Btw, I’m a fan of Adam and his crew!)
Norm clearly enjoys using the Vision Pro, but what I find most interesting is how he feels after taking it off. At the end of the video, he says:
I might not be using it every day. I’m certainly using it at least once a week, but every time I put it on, it’s like, “Wow, I forget how nice it is in here.” At the same time, every time I take it off, I’m like, “Oh, the real world’s pretty nice too.”
“Oh, the real world’s pretty nice too.” reminds me of something Jaron Lanier wrote in his essay “Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?” for The New Yorker last year:
In the nineteen-eighties, we used to try to sneak flowers or pretty crystals in front of people before they would take off their headsets; it was a great joy to see their expressions as they experienced awe. In a sense, this was like the awe someone might experience when appreciating a flower while on a psychedelic drug. But it was actually the opposite of that. They were perceiving the authentic ecstasy of the ordinary, anew.
YPWU 