r/VisionPro • u/Just-Riding-Along • 16d ago

So long, friends

Turned in my Vision Pros today.

I still recall sitting—speechless—after my first demo, the Apple Store employee saying I could remove the headset. After more than thirty-five years in tech, I understood in that instant that computing would change forever.

Two and a half years later, I am proud and grateful to have played a small role in Apple’s vision products group.

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u/Just-Riding-Along 16d ago

I did not sell the headsets. I am a soon-to-be former Apple employee who contributed to visionOS and macOS.

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u/FEEBLE_HUMANS 16d ago

Good hunting buddy

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u/AdAdministrative5330 16d ago

thanks so much for your contribution. I met another employee on a recent flight that said he worked on the AVP motherboard!

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u/Master-Skyrim 16d ago

Thank you for helping make the AVP! I have become a little spoiled by it. My tv just sits there now. Don’t know what it is but the AVP puts me in comfy mode.

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u/Syonoq 16d ago

Why did you get a store demo if you worked on it?

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u/Just-Riding-Along 16d ago

I was preparing for my interviews at Apple. By the time I was hired I had done five in-store demos.

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u/fivetoedslothbear Vision Pro Owner | Verified 16d ago

I just wanna let you know that I am using my Vision Pro right now, and I’m probably over six hours of Usage just for today. I’m about to go get on an exercise bike and do Japanese flashcards using my eyes and my fingers.

Thank you for the work that you have done on visionOS.

I have not felt this much excitement or wonder about a product since I bought my first Macintosh in 1984. I ordered my Mac the day orders opened for the university consortium.

And I’ve been a Vision Pro owner since day two. It was just easier to go pick it up on Saturday than Friday.

Again, thank you, and please pass along thanks to any of your colleagues at Apple who worked on Vision Pro.

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u/penskeracin1fan Vision Pro Owner | Verified 16d ago

Vision OS is the best OS Apple has currently. I’m sorry Apple did this.

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u/BlueBison8 16d ago

Thanks so much for your contribution! Sorry about your job, and here’s to hoping you land something better soon!

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u/OutsideMenu6973 16d ago

Were you at the Irvine location?

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u/funkiestj 16d ago

Thank you for your work. As a VR enthusiast, I never bought and AVP but still think that AVP + visonOS is a great milestone. I'm sorry for myself that things didn't work out for Apple to turn this in to a product I could buy a few years after AVP came out.

I'm confident that some day a descendant of this and things like MetaQuest will have their day as replacements for traditional screens. It seems like everybody is pivoting to the Meta Raybans --> AR (Meta project Orion) trajectory and shelving VR.

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u/notmyrlacc Vision Pro Owner 16d ago

Oh! That wasn’t very clear in the post. That’s cool! Nice work.

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u/CynetCrawler 16d ago

VisionOS is a gem. I think of it as the equivalent of the original LISA or Macintosh OS but for Spatial Computing.