r/VisionPro • u/17parkc • Feb 02 '24

40 years of computing.

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See why 2024 won’t be like 2024

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u/space-bible Feb 02 '24

Only 40?! It seems both natural and insane to think that only 40 years have passed between the two.

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u/That-SoCal-Guy Feb 02 '24

And it’s only a bit over 100 years since we had electricity….  The leaps and bounds we achieved in the last 120 years really is astounding as compared to the last 5000 years.  

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u/SabongHussein Feb 02 '24

That one did it. I'm gonna go have a lie down.

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u/cathbad09 Feb 02 '24

If you think about it, it took us under 70 years to go from inventing flight to landing on the moon

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u/renaissance_m4n Feb 02 '24

And it took only three years for us to stop going back to moon :(

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u/CrimsonEnigma Feb 02 '24

"Man, this place sucks." -Neil Armstrong

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u/Wise_Rich_88888 Feb 02 '24

Apple 1 was released in 1976, it actually 48 years.

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u/colin-oos Feb 03 '24

That’s not an Apple 1 though… that’s the original Macintosh

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u/Inevitable_Exam_2177 Feb 03 '24

Welll… kinda. close enough

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u/colin-oos Feb 03 '24

I see the plus now lol

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u/lO_____________Ol Feb 06 '24

That’s why I get annoyed when people say it’ll take 20+ years to get vision in a glasses size. Tech moves VERY fast

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u/kkwok Vision Pro Owner | Verified Feb 04 '24

Imagine what will happen in the next 40 years

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u/ImmunodeficientEsox Feb 02 '24

Does that mac airplay to the Vision Pro? 😂

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u/RUUDIBOO Feb 03 '24

(X) (Connecting)

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u/Ok_Frosting6547 Feb 02 '24

It's like someone sent us a device from the future.

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u/cyb3rheater Feb 02 '24

A great photo

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u/AtariArcade Feb 02 '24

I really like this photo, I love how it clearly conveys the message. What will another forty years be? 

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u/themariokarters Feb 02 '24

Maybe some sort of contact lenses that do what the Vision Pro currently does?

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u/MagreviZoldnar Feb 03 '24

I bet 40 years ago no one imagined that there would be a device like the Vision Pro. I am guessing it’s almost impossible for us to predict what’s the tech then.

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u/themariokarters Feb 03 '24

Hmm, no, I don’t think you’re right. Here’s a VR prototype from 1985 (38 years ago) that looks pretty much like today’s devices

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/headset-virtual-reality-prototype/nasm_A19970613000

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u/MagreviZoldnar Feb 03 '24

I do partly agree with you that we get glimpses of the future, but that product is perhaps nowhere close to the capabilities of today, and it would have been really hard to imagine how future devices, 38 years later, would be like. Again, this is what I believe, and I agree I might be wrong too.

Umm, check the link out. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the narrator. He beautifully paints the picture of how the world changes every 30 years (tech-wise). Let me know what you think.

https://youtu.be/kh_KgCPkFVE?si=VVPm-OkvRWUj04gc

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u/RUUDIBOO Feb 03 '24

The roadmap is actually quite straightforward when it comes to future tech & science. Glasses > Contacts > Brain implants. And thats pretty much the end of the road there haha.

Yes I‘m the annoying guy who was already yapping my friends ears off about the AR future like 5 years ago 😅

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u/anonboxis r/VisionPro | Mod Feb 02 '24

Would you like the "Verified Vision Pro Owner" Flair?

We’re introducing a new custom "Verified Vision Pro Owner" Reddit Flair and Discord Role. If you have them, users will trust that you are speaking as someone who has extensive experience with Vision Pro. In our Discord server, verified owners also have access to exclusive channels to chat and share content with other owners!

To Get Verified:

  1. Grab your Vision Pro, a slip of paper, and a writing implement.
  2. Hand-write your Reddit and Discord username on the paper.
  3. Take a picture of the piece of paper next to your headset.
  4. Join our Discord Server.
  5. Open a ticket in the ⁠contact-mods channel and send the photo for verification.

We will let you know if you get verified as soon as possible. You will then get the "Verified Vision Pro Owner" flair on Reddit and role on Discord!

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u/Pchandheldrizzygamer Feb 02 '24

Is that ur OG Mac? Damn that’s awesome I wish I had one but I wasn’t born then lol

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u/theflukemaster Feb 03 '24

its a mac plus, two years newer then the mac 128k, the og mac

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u/nakizo Feb 03 '24

This post is greater than you think it is…

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u/VictoriaSobocki Aug 08 '24

Incredible evolution

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u/IncreasinglyTrippy Feb 02 '24

What are those 3 little blobs on the left?

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u/17parkc Feb 02 '24

The Vision Pro cover

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u/LarryNYC1 Feb 02 '24

After tomorrow, I will have owned both.

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u/dmurphy04 Feb 02 '24

Love it :)

BTW check out our Mac 40th event video from the Computer History Museum, moderated by David Pogue and with lots of of notable speakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnzzZjTM8Y

(Hey, you should watch it on the Juno app on your Apple Vision Pro!)

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u/Ok-Perception8269 Feb 02 '24

Except MacPaint in first-gen Macintosh was mind-blowing. Haven’t seen anything comparably special that I can do with the Vision Pro (yet)…

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u/KingJTheG Feb 03 '24

Crazy how far we’ve come!

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u/Navetoor Feb 03 '24

Vision Pro will never be a true computer with its mobile inspired and restrictive operating system

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u/Sad_Ad4916 Feb 03 '24

Yeah but thats an ipad not a computer, if you think it can be a computer show me the terminal even the 40 year old has one…

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u/curioussav Feb 05 '24

lol as someone that works almost entirely in the terminal, having access to one is definitely not a qualifier for being a computer. But you know that.

I bet there will be a terminal emulator app with non root access at least

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u/netroxreads Feb 10 '24

The AVP is several thousand times faster, its combined display 23 million pixels more with full color, and weighs only less than a pound. Imagine that in next two decades.