The coolest use for the Vision Pro

mjorgers

Apple doesn’t sell the Vision Pro in Spain yet, so acquiring one would require taking a trip to France. For Vision Pro owners: is it worth it? Do you use it often? The post does mention a very compelling use case, but it is quite narrow (how often are you remodelling your house?)

eska

Architecture has always been a great fit for VR. Game engines like unreal engine integrate both VR and architecture software for example.

willturman

Vision Pro: when you're done sitting in the dark on your couch looking at photos of the family who left you, you can use AR to remodel your apartment. It even has textures .

throwway120385

This is a killer use case, but you should also take a peek at the Human Factors Handbook -- it's got great information about how to architect buildings like homes that will help you avoid some pitfalls I've seen in custom homes that I've been the second owner of.

thrance

But this use isn't specific to the Vision Pro, or am I wrong? What prevents things like that from running on any other VR headset, like my half-broken Quest 2?

_doctor_love

It would be interesting to see someone apply the principles and techniques of Christopher Alexander to this - trying to "grow" the house virtually and seeing what it might feel like before committing to building it.

stonedivot

This is an absolutely standard feature of any VR headset that has ever been released in the history of VR headsets. Make a 3D world, walk through it. What am I missing?

latchkey

here i was thinking this was a link to the latest wd video where he destroys a cybertruck while wearing vision pro's...

bredren

That's neat. Once it is built, I think a cooler use is to trace wiring and plumbing through your walls of your existing house. Your revit model may include all of this data, or at least the plan. Things change. :) Though this is especially helpful for old homes where you have to sort of improvise ethernet wiring. I normally just use it to consume 4k hdr media though. It has not lived up to being a utility player device, but so far it is so good at media delivery that is sort of okay.

nxc18

It seems like everything here can also be done with any iPhone using ARKit. Obviously the headset is better, but not $3500 better than just looking through your phone. Just thought I’d raise this since it weirdly isn’t mentioned in the article. I used a similar technique the last time I moved - scan the apartment using the iPhone, then I had a 3D model for measuring and planning out the space before/during the move. It’s a big help when planning out furniture etc. And I scanned my old place before leaving so I can virtually step into it any time I want. iPhone via finder/preview handles showing 3D models in AR out of the box.

asciimike

One of our engineers built a full data center walkthrough tool on an AVP (complete with data pulled from the building CAD files, as well as our internal DC operations tools): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fluidstack_our-latest-hackath... I'm really excited to see AR take off in use cases like this, given how useful it would be to give all our technicians e.g. a legacy Google Glass (not the Intelligent Eyewear thing) and direct them to a rack, overlay information about a failed component, and walk them through the repair SOP.

glitcher

Nice. I would love to model all my existing furniture and while in VR be able to move things to test different arrangements!

j_aime

This can be done with any modern VR headset but pretty cool nonetheless. cheers

Almondsetat

Here's an idea I hope someone steals: Mushroom or plant recognition training through navigatable and manipulable gaussian splatters of the speciments in their habitat

Oarch

I've done this quite a lot while working at a large architecture firm. It can be great for both small and enormous projects. Often, the more effort you put into the tiniest details, textures, etc the larger the realism payoff. I also found that immersion got better when the headset responded to the subtle head movements that we all make.

abirch

Personally I think 3D sports for Apple TV would be a game changer. I used 3D glasses + special TV in 2010 to watch the world cup and it was awesome.

diego_moita

Nah... The coolest use I've seen is a research at the University of Alberta (Canada) that aims to use the Vision Pro to alleviate nystagmus[1]. This is a disease on the muscles that control the eyes' direction. It causes the eyes to twitch involuntarily. They use the Visio Pro to "twitch" the image along with the eye, so the patient doesn't feel the jitter. It enables them to read, watch movies, etc. Another cool one is to use them to substitute the visual field test machines in ophthalmology offices. These are machines that cost U$15 000.00 dollars. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus

vanviegen

Yeah, we did the same thing when designing our house almost ten years ago now, using a HTC Vive running https://irisvr.com/prospect/ Just like the article says: Within a second after putting on the headset you just know if things are proportioned right, or need some fine tuning. That's really valuable! Also, when the house was actually (partially) built, it felt exactly like the simulations we knew pretty well by that point.

todotask2

It is even great for those with night blindness navigating in a large space. I wish there were night vision glasses.

pavon

There are apps for displaying RevIt models on the Apple Vision Pro, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, iPhone ARKit, and Android AR [1], so if you are working with an architect it is worth asking them if they can provide in-progress models as you iterate to avoid having to reproduce them yourself. [1] https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdc...