Alright y'all! How many of you cried after the demo

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Posted by: u/roastedchickn
:reddit:f-bounce: r/VisionPro

26 M here, Montreal, Canada. Walked into the Apple store on Saint Catherine’s with extremely high expectations. I had memorised the spec sheet. Read every piece of review or opinion article one could find about it. Spent nights imagining how it would feel.

Then it happened. Put it on for the first time, without even realising at first that it is on. The pass through just felt like I am seeing the world through sunglasses. Then came the photos, yeah okay. Pretty good. Then the dinosaur. I was in awe. Looking at that T-rex the way Dr. Alan Grantt saw them in JP 1.

Then came the panoramas which made me audibly gasp and it was soon followed by the virtual environment and oh my god!

To those who have tried it, you know it. To those who haven’t, its indescribable as to how real it felt.

A bit of background about me, I have spent a better part of the decade as a filmmaker with a masters in Cinematography. I am trained to spot the pixels, the noise, the sharpness, the white balance.

So did I see it all? In short,yes. Despite being 8k, you can see the pixels if you look for them. The virtual environment are high quality renders and perform better but the panaromas do have the processed, sharpened look.

But none of it mattered. In that moment. You were there. It felt real. The sky shone in the horizon. The rocks glistened. The void of space was as dark and black as it could be.

But what followed next is what made me cry.
Seeing the 3D (Spatial) photos and videos. Took you right there. Never have I seen that family before but seeing them blow out the candles in 3D made me feel I am a part of their family. It illicited a kind of emotional response that you experience ever so rarely and which end up becoming core memories.

The immersive video at the end. I was just grateful that I got to experience this. Ducking the balls, cheering with the crowd, flinching with the parkour artists. You are there, in the moment. Feeling as close to the real life experience as it ever could.

After the demo, I couldn’t help myself but imagine. The iphone is the perfect size to capture 3D videos if you place the 2 cameras on the opposite ends. To top it off, I can only imagine that future iterations will pair the selfie and the back camera to shoot 360 photos, which can be viewed on the vision pro.

It will absolutely change how we interac with the digital world and I don’t think many are able to imagine the extent of it. Capturing memories as they happened and seeing them as they were. I have no words left.

Sure we need the processing to capture and play 8 or even 16k. Sure there’s not much content that exists today. Sure the wifi speeds and data needs to be a lot faster.

But none of it can stop what is to come. It will come, even if we don’t quite know when.

If you have went for a demo was your XP similar to the Op of this review/impressions?

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Here is a great response on Spatial Photos.

Posted By: u/rather-oddish
:reddit: r/VisionPro

Spatial photos are incredible. This isn’t new science, but stereoscopy adds an entire dimension of new information that our brains are wired to implicitly process. With this additional context, seemingly familiar imagery evolves into a form more naturally and wholly imitating what we experience every day. With that extra information, we can appreciate that imagery in visceral new ways.

For example, we know that a photo will never do justice to the steepness of a hill. The photo of the hill looks flat and boring, sometimes frustrating as your brain works overtime searching for context from monoscopic depth cues. Satisfyingly, a stereoscopic version of that same photo would accurately depict that steepness through complementary stereo depth. A photo from a hike that once appeared mundane now feels imposing.

Stereo cues factor into our interpersonal communication, too. My AI overview explained that “when viewing a face in stereopsis, pupils may also constrict, and volumetric regions of the face may be more noticeable.” The contours of our faces are a part of our identity. With stereoscopy, we can experience that part of each other’s identities, once again creating a comparably more intimate portrayal.

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When compounding that intimacy with the novelty of a new experience and the intention of the photographer, it’s easy to understand how the experience could move anyone to tears.

Still happens to me too on my Vision Pro, and I’ve enjoyed stereo photography for over a decade