Envisioned

As I sit on my couch, staring into the infinite workspace in front of my eyes, on my Apple Vision Pro, I can’t help but wonder how far we have come in terms of computing and access.

I still remember my first exposure.

I was in the 5th grade, back home in India. This was in 1993-94. Our school had a dedicated wing in one of the buildings, for computers. The wing had two rooms, with about twenty computers each. The second room was special in the sense, the computers had color monitors. These were the old CRT monitors. If the first room was full, we would be asked to use the second room and we would pray for the first one to be full, all the time. 

Every week for 45 minutes, the students in my class would line up outside our regular classroom. The teacher in charge will then escort us to the computer wing. When we reach there, we will follow the routine of removing our school shoes and socks and piling them up on the shoe racks, in front of the computer rooms. All thirty pairs of eyes gleaming with wonder as we walk into the air conditioned room (only the computer rooms were air conditioned in our school) and pick our spot in front of the Pentium computers, two per system. Then we would turn the system on, and load into MS-DOS and would proceed to work on our Logo drawing. Very soon, time would be up and we would be asked to leave the room and exit the building to head back to our regular classroom. 

From these very humble(?) beginnings, to having my very first HP PC at home, to purchasing my very first eMachines laptop when I landed in the US for my studies, to MacBook Pro for work these days and now Apple Vision Pro, we (I) have come a long way. 

Now from the comfort of my home, I can get a full theater experience (choosing where I want to be seated in this aforementioned theater) or choose to engage in a Persona based FaceTime call or turn up a notch and work on my projects from my MacBook directly on the infinite canvas that is Apple Vision Pro.

Grateful doesn't begin to describe how I feel about being part of this innovation. Grateful that I am able to afford one in the first place and grateful that the innovation came at the right time for me to experience it to the full. These generation defining moments are very rare (i.e. iPod, iPhone etc) and witnessing them live is a privilege. Sure, Apple Vision Pro has its own problems and sure Apple will keep refining them for years to come. But what we are witnessing is the small-step-for-mankind moment, which will redefine how we consume entertainment. A Personal Entertainment revolution.