<story><title>Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?</title><text>It&amp;#x27;s been 8 months since the initial reviews, so I would love to know if anyone has managed to really become productive and comfortable working hours a day on the Apple Vision Pro.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>virgildotcodes</author><text>I feel like I would have been the ideal customer for it. I travel a lot and I&amp;#x27;m a developer deep in the Apple ecosystem who is constantly wishing he had more screen real estate while bouncing between hotels and Airbnbs every few weeks.&lt;p&gt;I bought it and tried it for two weeks and ended up returning it. It&amp;#x27;s really cool, but even aside from the issues with 1.0 like not being able to just pull up individual app windows from my mac or multiple desktops -- it&amp;#x27;s just too impractical, it takes too much effort to get into this thing.&lt;p&gt;A phone, a tablet, a laptop, you can pick up, immediately use, put down, interact with the world around you, pick up again, zero friction, it&amp;#x27;s not restrictive, it&amp;#x27;s not an item of clothing, it doesn&amp;#x27;t take over your whole world and sensory system and thus alienate you from everyone and everything around you.&lt;p&gt;Not only is it that whole extra thing, but it needs to be plugged into a special battery pack, so you have another usb cable dangling onto this bulky pack which is daisy chained to your laptop or another charging port unless you want it to die in 2 hours. So you pull out your laptop, plug it into a charger, pull out your headset, plug it into its battery pack, plug that battery pack into your laptop, put on the headset, untangle yourself from the wires and figure out where to set the battery pack to be out of the way...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just so much faffing around. Plus it&amp;#x27;s fucking huge and takes up the majority of my backpack and I like to travel with a single carry on backpack.&lt;p&gt;A pair of Raybans with a usb c cable sticking out, maybe I could see that being legitimately usable without having to make a giant effort just to use it. It seems like a few companies are getting close to that, but I have yet to try those alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matco11</author><text>This is the best review I have ever read on the Apple Vision Pro. 
Also, we should probably stop lying to ourselves, and finally admit what we have known in hour hearts for a little while now: Apple is not anymore what it used to be. Reading this makes it clear…&lt;p&gt;Apple Vision Pro is the modern equivalent of John Sculley’s Apple Newton</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?</title><text>It&amp;#x27;s been 8 months since the initial reviews, so I would love to know if anyone has managed to really become productive and comfortable working hours a day on the Apple Vision Pro.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>virgildotcodes</author><text>I feel like I would have been the ideal customer for it. I travel a lot and I&amp;#x27;m a developer deep in the Apple ecosystem who is constantly wishing he had more screen real estate while bouncing between hotels and Airbnbs every few weeks.&lt;p&gt;I bought it and tried it for two weeks and ended up returning it. It&amp;#x27;s really cool, but even aside from the issues with 1.0 like not being able to just pull up individual app windows from my mac or multiple desktops -- it&amp;#x27;s just too impractical, it takes too much effort to get into this thing.&lt;p&gt;A phone, a tablet, a laptop, you can pick up, immediately use, put down, interact with the world around you, pick up again, zero friction, it&amp;#x27;s not restrictive, it&amp;#x27;s not an item of clothing, it doesn&amp;#x27;t take over your whole world and sensory system and thus alienate you from everyone and everything around you.&lt;p&gt;Not only is it that whole extra thing, but it needs to be plugged into a special battery pack, so you have another usb cable dangling onto this bulky pack which is daisy chained to your laptop or another charging port unless you want it to die in 2 hours. So you pull out your laptop, plug it into a charger, pull out your headset, plug it into its battery pack, plug that battery pack into your laptop, put on the headset, untangle yourself from the wires and figure out where to set the battery pack to be out of the way...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just so much faffing around. Plus it&amp;#x27;s fucking huge and takes up the majority of my backpack and I like to travel with a single carry on backpack.&lt;p&gt;A pair of Raybans with a usb c cable sticking out, maybe I could see that being legitimately usable without having to make a giant effort just to use it. It seems like a few companies are getting close to that, but I have yet to try those alternatives.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gigachad</author><text>I don’t understand why they didn’t make this a gaming device. All this hassle would be worth it to play immersive shooter games or VR chat with full hand and face tracking.&lt;p&gt;No one is going to go through all that to open up Apple notes and YouTube when your phone and MacBook does exactly the same thing.</text></comment>