Seeing the Future: Vision Pro Review Roundup

Now that Vision Pro has been released into the wild, years of evolution, developer innovation, and use case discovery begin. But before all that unfolds, we have lots of hands-on analysis to quench years of waiting and anticipation. That’s right, it’s time for a Vision Pro review roundup.

We’ve selected our favorites from the review core. With ample hands-on time, these go a few steps beyond the earlier batch of announcement-day Apple-chaperoned reviews. Those we selected also go further than sheer specs, peering into Apple’s strategic positioning and trajectory.

And the consensus so far? A common chorus is that Vision Pro is an impressive specimen and a technological feat… but it’s also flawed in several ways. That’s to be expected from a V1 product. The exciting part is how this provides a glimpse into spatial computing’s future.

Or as WSJ’s Joanna Stern put it:

The Vision Pro has every characteristic of a first-generation product. It’s heavy, it’s battery life sucks, there aren’t that many great apps yet, and sometimes it’s buggy. But when you imagine a device without those constraints, you see where it could be better than holding a phone to your face. For now, it gives you a pretty great way to work and watch movies. Is that worth $3,500? That’s between you and your bank account. But in those 24 hours, I could see Apple’s future vision here. A pixelated and, yes, a little distorted glimpse of it, that is…