Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Apple Vision Pro

33 thoughts on “Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Apple Vision Pro”

1. PKD would not dig this thing

2. isn't this professor he jeffrey epstein client?

3. Why would I want to be immersed in a random video? I think this might be good foe surgeons, or people looking for leaking water pipes..

4. Isn't it a bit embarrasing to be considered a Harvard prof nowadays? I know that Pinker is rational but its doubtful that the other profs are.

5. Ask a distinguished Harvard professor and leading intellectual to evaluate a product and you'll get an explanation that sounds like it's from a distinguished Harvard professor and intellectual.

6. He needs to try more devices.

7. Oh my there is a massive landscape of opportunities waiting for Apple and its developers. Innovation and change can be unsettling for some people. Is there going to be a part 2 with your conclusion? How long was your demo or do you own a Vision Pro? I actually own a Vision Pro and I find this new technology fascinating, realizing that this is generation #1. Just like the iPhone when it first came out we were all wondering why Apple was making this new and different cell phone. It was certainly difficult to use. The iPad felt like it would flop as well, because we all know how much better our computers accomplished our work. Be patient… and know that there is much more that will evolve out of this new technology. Examples: Being immersed in a building design, being present with another person while they are traveling, seeing a place you simply cannot go. My experience as an owner: Apple Vision Pro has an impressive, immersive experience of "I am really there". I was never disoriented, nor did I experience nausea, I simply really enjoyed every moment.

8. A professor at the always progressive Harvard is promoting a device born of evil capitalism instead of criticizing it?

   interesting…

9. This stuff is making people dumb a bit more.

10. The professor failed to mention Viewmaster.

11. Thank you for this great take! I appreciate the historical background, learned a lot. I have an Apple Vision Pro, and feel like this is something different from anything that’s come before. I think it’s a combination of the incredible dual processors and top end cameras; Taken altogether, there’s an experience here without compare. Reducing the weight of the AVP + Reducing the size of it on the face are important hurdles to get over for greater mass adoption. The current size and weight create a device that is socially isolating… Like trying to have a conversation with someone wearing tinted ski goggles.

12. I like this description a lot! Although, this is what we, more veteran VR users, and millions of other users felt many years ago (or some months ago) with Valve, HTC, PSVR 1 and 2 headsets, Quest 1, 2, 3 headsets. It is explained as if this were new tech, but it is an improvement in some regards to tech that has been out there for at least a decade now. A veteran user only sees crisper images with more pixels on Vision Pro. Not many true VR apps though (lots of 2D apps, for sure).

13. Is he using it to tour Epstein Island virtually? He must miss it.

14. Let's be honest this product wouldn't get a third of the attention it is getting if it wasn't from Apple.

15. It is not logical to compare toys and high tech computer hardware!😮😮😮

16. Now ask him about Epstein's Island

17. I expected a video with a psychological perspective on a world in which people rather virtually “expand”, “change” and “enhance” how they perceive the world instead of actually enhancing the real world, but apparently who cares about that…

18. did this guy actually say "wild… wide field of view" three times in a row?

19. need a little work on your audio…

20. Excellent overview Stephen. I guess I shouldn't be surprised from a Harvard professor! 👍

21. Impressive review. I wish one day I could achieve such a level of vocabulary and depth of analysis. It was smashing. Also, it helped me to clear the dilemma regarding Apple Vision. I am not buying it until they resolve the weight-balancing issue and develop more useful apps.

22. I find it just a tad cringy hearing a psych prof speaking far outside of his industry like he’s a hardware specialist.
    I’d appreciate less information about the tech and more of your thoughts on the sociological impact, or our psychological adaptations to VR technology

23. It's a shame that proper 8K 3D 180 VR cameras aren't widely available or cheap for consumers.

24. Not interested and ain’t gonna miss anything 😂😅🤣

25. You’re a professor? REALLY?😂 Does anyone learn anything? I doubt it. You’re a BLABBER MOUTH. 😂 I watched for 5 minutes respectfully it’s all you deserve. There went 5 minutes of my life. Were you ever going to make a point? Should we buy the Vision Pro? I guess i’ll never know at least from you, blocking this bullshit channel. Don’t quit your day job.

26. I got the sense of 3D from a normal television when I viewed with one eye normally and the other through a camcorder viewfinder. Properly adjusted, to match the naked eye's view there was the sensation of 3D but only when the image moved. This suggested to me that the slight time delay through camcorder to the one eye caused the effect.

27. With all the rabid antisemitism in Ivy League colleges, the word "Harvard" evokes the feeling of disgust more than anything.

    But OK, I still clicked on the video, as I'm interested in AR and.. really? You need a whole "professor of psychology" for a couple of uninformative and well-known simple facts?
    Geez.
    Karl Guttag's single SENTENCE contains 100x more information than this video 🤦🏻‍♂

28. I would love to see some painting apps

29. Interesting topic. However I still like 3D movies. Thinks can get bigger if the glaces get like normal glaces. Or if more dimensions are projected, like feel and smell. Or interactive movies where you are a part of the movie, a kind of advanced gaming. Other thinks that are interesting is design. You can see directly how new furniture looks like at home, or a new garden design. I saw once at a technical event a version of kitchen designs where you could choose from.

30. most reviewers miss this, my take after 2 weeks with the AVP is that I'm looking at an evolution. It reminds me when mobile phones first came out and most people thought it was too expensive, not worth it, etc… PC and even laptops are essentially 2 dimensional machines. When the iPhone came out it started the evolution of having a computer in your pocket. AVP is going to be a 3 dimensional computer. This is enabling the next form of computers – the ability to interact in 3D just like we do with everything else in our lives. This will untether the computer. It's only the first version so whatever failings it has is just that – a first edition. I can't wait to experience what is coming in the next decade. On the question of price – yes it's expensive for most people – but so is a Ferrari or a luxury car. If you compare Apples to Apples (pardon the pun) the AVP should be compared to high end professional VR headsets like the Varjo that go for $6k (like the Varjo XR3 that's going for $10K) or Microsoft's HoloLens at $6k. In those scenarios AVP at $3.5k is a bargain. My two cents

31. The physiological correlated scientific reality that could benefit those with neck pain (also known as "text neck") is the ability to view the screen in theory on the floor which would allow the viewer to rest their forehead on a table whilst sitting and so changing position which eliminates the constant strain on one region of the spine which in this case is the upper neck region. So its not really the "killer app" for folk with neck pain or shoulder correlated but the functional possibility to consume content in novel positions that has not been the case since print media took over humans into early modernism and the enlightenment.

32. There is a stereoscopic anatomy text and the disections– especially of the CNS– are exquisite. I used it in med school and still have the CNS and head and neck volumes and the Viewmaster needed for viewing. I wonder if Prof. Pinker is aware of it.

33. Interesting perspective but I was like what has that got to do with the price of bread? The world has hunger for what can improve living conditions and standards, not about something as abstract as what this professor has shared. Less than 1% of the world population will find this useful.

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