The Vision Pro has only been out a few days now and already the Macalope is afraid he has to put his hoof down . Please , no more wearing the Vision Pro in world , at least until we can figure out what ’s going on .

That should only take a decade or so .

The Macalope ’s not go to colligate to them but so far we ’ve view the great unwashed eating a meal in a restaurant wearing the Vision Pro , people frustrate the street in the Vision Pro , and people driving down the highway wear down the Vision Pro .

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Not amazingly , some of these turned out to be the same guy rope . That ’s an curious coincidence , is n’t it ?

There is emphatically a mess of performative behavior going on here . If you ’re wearing a Vision Pro driving down the highway in a Cybertruck on autodrive and produce gestures that do n’t in reality do anything in visionOS , then you ’re do . Some of these people have after admit tomaking up fake scenarioswith the equipment to get societal medium aid .

People doing thing forattention?Well . Now the Macalope has seen everything .

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Are they measuredly trying to make you hate the Vision Pro ? Possibly , but that ’s probably less the fount than they are simply trying to encourage themselves .

How should we treat these Vision Pro lapses in judgement ? After spending year railing against Google Glass , the Macalope ca n’t very well suddenly say it ’s okay to be out and about wearing a Vision Pro .

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hold off , can he ? No , seems like that would be work-shy .

The one thing he ’ll say for laziness , though , is it ’s really easy . But , no , he ’s not go to do that .

There are , of course , some enceinte differences between Glass and Vision Pro . Glass was an belligerent societal equipment ( the Macalope is try not to use “ in your face ” here but it ’s really hard ) that include facial recognition engineering science . Vision Pro is , at least currently , more aimed at media use and productiveness . It still is capable of trance video recording , of course , but it ’s also far more obtrusive , certainly from a distance . No one ’s lead to on the QT record you enter that computer storage that got canceled because of the proprietor ’s odious views on Taylor Swift and Chad McFootball ( I think that ’s his name ) . you may see people wearing a Vision Pro come from a mile forth . And then safely cross the street to obviate them . Less because the Vision Pro is such a threat to you and more because anyone wearing one out for a stroll is belike not someone you require to attempt to strike up a conversation with . All they want to talk about is their Vision Pro .

Casey Neistatperformed an experimentation using the Vision Pro on the streets of New York that was more or less charming . Toward the end of his picture , Neistat notes that the Vision Pro in its current form is a glance of the future tense , a future that will feature a much smaller headset . And when that happens , you could expect to see more and more Vision Pros ( and like devices ) in the wild . This is a future that some areactively arguing against .

To be honest , the Macalope is pretty leery of it , too , and is pretty opposed to it in world . Want to use the Vision Pro in the privacy of your own dwelling ? Knock yourself out . Spatial computing currently seems to have some rough sharpness but it ’s an interesting new fundamental interaction model . You want to watch a picture show or otherwise see to it out on an aeroplane ? Yeah , okay . Being stick in a tin can hurl through the sky with 150 strangers is an satisfactory prison term to check out .

But you require to be in a headset and interact with the horny one on the street ? Hard whirl . Unless we ’re specifically babble out about the Vision Pro for a moment . But that 15 minutes is gon na be it .

The slippery side to being fully sucked into a digital world has turned into a greased piddle gulch at an off - brand theme park , fast and dangerous . There is a meter and a berth for everything . The Vision Pro ’s is behind unsympathetic doorway .