Apple Vision Pro now offers a 10-minute tour on YouTube that gives potential buyers an in-depth look at how the mixed reality headset works.
Actor Will, who stars in the guided tour, claims to be a “first-time user” of the Apple Vision Pro, and Apple Vision Pro product manager Allesandra McGinnis gave him an in-depth tutorial on how to use the headset, from using common mid-air gestures to interacting with a device called Communicate with funny avatars of characters.
You can pre-order Apple Vision Pro now
Apple Vision Pro Guide Posted on YouTube
In the film, McGinnis instructs Will to do the following:
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Basic navigation. Will learn how to use eyes and gestures to select and scroll through apps. In addition, he learned to pinch his fingers to explore photos and videos inside the headphones.
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Launch apps using voice commands. The tour gives viewers an in-depth look at how to call Siri to launch apps like Apple TV.
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spatial computing. Will figured out how to place multiple browser windows in his real-life environment, which were virtual artifacts inside the headset.
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Surround sound music. After launching the Apple Music app, Will discovered that the Apple Vision Pro could play surround sound music.
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FaceTime. The tour guide explained that FaceTime calls can be expanded to cover the entire room.
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environment. To escape the current environment, you can choose from many different scenic locations, providing users with an immersive 360-degree experience.
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Connect your MacBook. Use Sidecar to mirror your MacBook screen to Apple Vision Pro.
3 new things I learned from the Apple Vision Pro video
Perhaps these features were already mentioned at WWDC 2023, Apple’s first widely shared event for the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, but here are three pieces of information I learned while watching the tour guide:
1. You will receive FaceTime calls from Mac users, but you will receive “personas” from other Vision Pro users.
In the tour video, Will receives a FaceTime call from a woman named Yuri Imoto. Soon after, he got a call from Kristin Oro, who asked, “Why does your FaceTime look different than Yuri’s?”
Character display in Apple Vision Pro
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Oro explained that Yuri was answering the call on her Mac, so it looked like a normal video call. Oro, on the other hand, launched FaceTime while using the Apple Vision Pro, prompting the headset to appear. Oro has a “Persona,” a creepy avatar that uses a mix of her eyes and preset facial features to create a simulated headset presence. .
2. Surround sound experience comes from “audio box”
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McGinnis explained that the Apple Vision Pro’s audio box sits outside the user’s ears and is designed to provide “rich spatial audio.”
3. People nearby can appear in the “environment”
Breakout mode
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When you’re immersed in a 360-degree Apple Vision Pro environment, you can see nearby people appear as faint digital overlays inside the headset, thanks to a feature called Breakthrough.
4. The battery pack is obviously missing
Finally, one thing I’d like to see more of is the battery pack. A quick tutorial on how to use it and how best to target something that might be a bit annoying would be useful.
