Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?

Diana taught me more about AR/VR in 10 minutes than months of googling and reviews and ChatGPT altogether. Great knowledge database!!

I hate I just found this video.. but its the most intelligent conversation about Vision Pro I've seen on YouTube!

Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:37 - Intro 01:26 - Diana AR/VR Startup 02:12 - Getting acquired by Niantic 02:50 - Why AR? What's going on with Apples Vision Pro? 03:48 - Challenges with VR headsets: Microsoft HoloLens 05:14 - Eyes ability to focus 05:42 - How it's different from optical approach? 06:19 - Apple Vision Pro video feed reduces technical challenge 07:41 - Hard interesting stuff: Hardware vs Software 09:24 - Connection between VR/AR and Self-Driving cars 11:07 - Use cases: Focus on productivity 12:48 - iPhone human interface guidelines 13:25 - Eye tracking: Something founders can focus on 15:26 - What the difference between Meta SDK and Apple Vision Pro SDK? 16:52 - iPhones impact on YC companies 17:33 - Is Vision Pro an iPhone moment? 18:35 - Why did it take 5 years for good iPhone companies to come out? 19:45 - VR will be different from mobile 20:19 - Group Office Hours: Pre-mortem exercise 21:31 - Advice for founders and why should they build VR apps? 23:05 - Path of consumer social networks: Facebook 24:12 - Should founders build on VR/AR tech? 27:09 - One of the things YC will look for in a VR applications? 27:36 - Outro

Meta Quest 3 has impressed me way more than I thought it would with it's capabilities, both in workflow and also in developing (it is SO much more developer friendly than the vision pro). In my opinion they are writing it off too quickly as 'just a gaming device'

Can someone build an app that generates a virtual Paul Graham or Michael Seibel that just hang around my place all day, give advice and randomly crack jokes

I recently launched a startup, and one of my co-founders and I each got the Vision Pro... and ever since it has dominated our thought cycles. It is such an exciting step forward.

I LOVE Diana’s conceptual clarity on this subject!!

I love Diana's point on the current 2D limitations (and dare I say lack of 3D creativity) of the UI/UX. I wish AVP apps would dare to go more 3D...and maybe they will - maybe Apple is trying to ease us into a 3D UI. But I think there's a huge opportunity here to improve UI/UX using the AVP. Almost like force touch or shake to undo on the iPhone. Imagine interfaces had layers that you could visualize - almost like a photoshop or Figma file.

One major hurdle for developers to get on the visionOS bandwagon is they have to be a heavy iOS developers(RealityKit, ARKit, SwiftUI etc.). It's great for guys like me who are already iOS developers but for non iOS developers, they might be at a disadvantage. There are some links I saw where Apple has provided some support for Unity developers to port their applications over to visionOS but once ported over they will have to develop the apps using the iOS tech stack. Also, with the price tag being so high for the headsets, we will have to see how fast the consumer base expands.

25:11 CAD software: you could have a 2D screen floating where you do traditional modeling with paired Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and next to that you can have the actual 3D version of the object you’re modeling. The 3D part or assembly could be scaled or kept 1:1 so you can virtually test fit with real world parts.

Finally a thoughtful and interesting conversation on this topic. Appreciate hearing from experts, not just fans.

This was incredibly comprehensive and concise. Thanks everyone!

"Ok, can we take the headsets off, so we can talk?"

It would be amazing if two or more Vision Pro headsets could share an augmented environment. Like both people in the room can see the same floating screens or objects.

I have an idea for an app: When you walk around with the Vision Pro, it will automatically detect billboards/commercials and overlay them with random photos/memories in your camera roll 👀

Watching from the Vision Pro!

The amount of head nodding I did on this video is next level. Quite a lot of valuable information expressed, color me impressed!

She hit the nail on the head! They eye is just so advanced.

Now everyone wants to be part of the cool kids in the XR Space

Thank you