How to Drink Coffee While Wearing an Apple Vision Pro
You don't. That's the short answer. The slightly less cheeky answer is 'very carefully.'
Let's back up a sec. I'm an early adopter of a lot of tech, and specifically Apple tech. So of course I got the VP when it came out.
Its been sitting in a case in a box for most of the past few months, but I'm traveling right now and I brought the Vision Pro with me to see if I could use it as a monitor replacement. I've got a large monitor that I use when I'm at home which gives me the screen real estate I need to look at a lot of charts. Going back to a laptop screen really doesn't work for me. I need 40+ inches of hi-res screen.
The latest VisionOS update brought the highly-andicipated virtual display that lets you put your mac display into a massive widescreen in vision world, and I was super pumped to try it.
I used it for a couple of hours today, actually using it to look at charts and trade and do real things vs just kicking the tires. And its great. Really cool. VisionOS is wild. Having all that space and multiple windows floating around is a really cool experience.
Having said that I have a lot of reservations about this product. I won't go into all of them here but I'll say two things that really stuck out to me over the two hours I used it this morning.
- After about an hour and a half, my head started to feel a little funny and by the two hour mark I had a full on headache. Had to take it off immediately. That is not uncommon for me or for others, from what I've read. It is unfortunate because it prevents the thing from really being used to its full potential.
- Coming back full circle to the name of this post, it is really cumbersome to drink a cup of coffee when you have this on. Now some people might say that's not a real issue, but it absolutely is. If every time I take a sip of my coffee I have to think about the chance that a $10 coffee cup cracks a $1000 curved piece of glass, that's putting me between a rock (I need that caffeine) and a hard place (I didn't get the crazy expensive AppleCare). The coffee sipper needs to be a top priority user acceptance test.
Will Apple figure this out? History says yes, but this is all bleeding edge tech so the question is always what's the trade off. I think this new way of computing is at least part of the future but I also think VP is very early. Maybe too early. We shall see.
