IT Home reported on February 1 that in an interview with the latest issue of "Vanity Fair" magazine, Apple CEO Tim Cook talked about the development experience of Apple's augmented reality headset product "Vision Pro" for the first time, including his shocking experience when he tried out the early prototype.
IT Home noted that the article did not explicitly mention the trial time, only revealing that it was before Apple moved to its current campus, "maybe."
six, seven, or even eight years ago".
It's like a monster," Cook described, "a massive contraption." "He was asked to sit down, and then this huge machine ** was on his head. It's very rough, like a giant box with six screens layered on top of each other, and a camera sticking out like a beard.
At the time, it couldn't be worn," Cook said, "and it was impossible to imagine it being worn." "There are also huge fans humming on either side of the device, making a steady, low humming sound. The device was connected to wires and snaked across the floor to another room, where a supercomputer was connected. As the button is pressed, the light lights up, and the processor and graphics processor run ...... billions of timesThe next moment, Tim Cook is on the moon!
Cook admits that at the time he didn't know how long it would take engineers to turn a giant prototype into a wearable, but he was confident they could.
Apple's head of marketing, Greg Joswiak, said people who use Vision Pro for the first time tend to be speechless for a moment.
You know, one of our favorite common reactions is when people say, 'Wait a minute, I need a little time to digest everything that just happened,'" Joswiak said in Apple Park, "How cool is that?" When will people come across a product that will make them speechless, right? ”
You can literally lie on the couch and put the monitor on the ceiling if you want," Cook said, "I watched the third season of Ted Lasso with the screen on the ceiling, it was incredible!" ”
Cook said Apple has its own theories and plans for the future of augmented reality, but can't be sure what it will eventually look like.
We're always excited about something and then we start exploring the possibilities of it," Cook said, "yes, we have a roadmap and so on, and we have a clear point of view, but a lot of it also needs to be explored and discovered." "Sometimes, these dots connect and take you to a place you didn't expect. ”