The Vision is most impressive

It’s too big, too heavy and too expensive – but the Vision Pro is also too wonderful, says Jon Honeyball.

OPINION | ONE MORE THING Over the past 30 years we have moved relentlessly from desktop computing to laptops to mobile to wearables. It’s felt like a giddy headlong rush, but these devices really only work in 2D, offering some sense of 3D at best. Even then, the 3D you get is mostly “front plus everything else”. “Apple’s Vision Pro could finally break us free from this 2D flat-earth thinking with properly implemented, full-depth 3D.” And applications have grown to use this model, because it works on the majority of devices. Take Microsoft Office. I don’t have any issues with Word being absolutely locked into a 2D world, because its underlying nature is that of a sheet of paper. Excel is different, yet we’re still stuck in two-dimensional thinking despite…

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