Why did you buy an Apple Vision Pro?

With a price tag of $3500, the all new Apple Vision Pro is quite the investment. Many people made it, and we spoke to a few of them.

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[destructodisk]

If anyone is wondering, he said on his personal Twitter account that he broke his shoulder back in March. Hope he is making a swift and pain free as possible recovery. Someone from Linus Media should really inform the audience though.

[_Moar]

That pinching-the-doorknob moment has the same energy as when astronauts come back down to Earth and forget their pens don't stay suspended in the air.

[JCee]

I wish I had such levels of disposable income to splurge $3500 on a headset.

[Solunerra]

Hiya, I'm the dummy who bought the Vision Pro "for Genshin." (yes, that was mostly a joke justification because I make dumb Genshin Impact videos lol)

I've got some additional thoughts for those that care. Having had the device for the better part of a month now, I don't plan to keep it.
Right now it's more a question of "how long do I plan on keeping it" mostly for the purpose of showing it some friends/family that live varying degrees of not nearby me. I really do love the thing as a device to be able to share my passion for technology rather than just talking about my passions. The Vision Pro is a really fun device to use, but far too expensive for what it actually does right now. Which I am not at all surprised by--I expected that going in. It is ultimately very expensive toy that I am treating as a device I am "renting" by nature of intending to get most of my money back later by selling it. I believe in the future of the product category as a whole, and I look forward to the innovation that may come as a result of Apple entering the space.

I also concur with the feelings of just talking to people in the headset being one of the meaningful values of the device. I think the audio experience on top of the persona stuff goes a long way towards making it feel like people are present in a room with you, to a much greater extent than I have felt with other digital forms of talking with people. It is my preferred method of talking to anyone digitally now, so long as I am JUST talking to them. Still need to use my PC to play games while talking to friends of course.

Anyhow, it was super fun being part of this video, thanks a ton for letting me be part of it Jonathan!

[MindstabThrull]

That one guy who said how he changed when he got the Vision Pro (pinching the doorknob?) reminds me of what happened when I got my first cell phone over 15 years ago - it went from "unusual" to "natural" in a matter of a few days.

[Ragnorok]

Receding hairline long hair white dude, college kid from money, and VC startup bro are exactly who I'd expect to be buyers of this thing.

[Ojisan]

Good job doing an actually different video about the Vision Pro.

[vividkarting]

MA is such a calm channel to come back to. Especially with the influx of shouty videos all over YT

[NamIess]

Honestly MA becomes slowly the best part of LTT. I love the less but more quality content. Thank You Jonathan!

[ToTouchAnEmu]

just need someone to admit they bought it for pr0n

[ashleyreid]

The quality of this channel always pleasantly surprises me

[Conchobhar]

10:13 not a cell phone in sight. just two gingers living in the moment.

[Chimpur]

My experience with the M3 Pro MacBook Pro was the same as that Ian guy. I showed up the the Apple store to pick it up... and there was no one there. Probably more people getting their iPhones fixed at the genius bar.

[ImWillyDS]

It's been 2 months, and still waiting any new video from Mac Address. Anything will do, even just the comment on the iPad Pro release. Please . . . .

[SpicerJack]

Why are there so few videos on this channel?

[skitzo]

So basically it’s just “Cool” . It doesn’t change daily life with the exception of looking stupid in public. $4k is just stupid

[gullible]

That ian dude trying so hard to justify spending $3500. Facetiming for the price of a used civic 💀

[fluphybunny]

"Because they are Apple fanboys" is the answer outside of devs buying it.

[TheDivinepromise]

Was just wondering why this channel hasn’t got any updates.

[StevenRayMorris]

Tried the Vision Pro last week and genuinely surprised at how quickly I went from like no way, to ah shit, can I find a reason to justify the investment? Being in the Apple ecosystem makes it so tempting. As a podcast engineer and editor, the thought of using protools inside this one day could be really fun and possibly even more productive than a keyboard and mouse. Imagine chopping audio tracks like you’re in fruit ninja!