"The screen, which has an incredible fidelity, allows me to see everything in the room around me. It’s not reality, but it’s close to it."

"I know I’m wearing a headset, but I can also see everything clearly, including my watch, my iPhone, furniture and of course people.... After some mundane stuff like looking at pictures, messing around with web surfing, viewing messages and taking a rather uncanny valley FaceTime call with a digital avatar, I get to experience some truly breathtaking — and at times dystopian — moments that almost brought a tear to my eye. Because where the Vision Pro really shines is handling 3D movies and interactive graphical experiences. One moment I’m at a child’s birthday party where I’m sure my 80-year-old self would be crying at having enjoyed a life well lived and the next I’m courtside at an NBA game, on the goal line at a football match, in Alicia Keys’s music studio and fending off cute baby rhinos who want to say hello all recorded in what Apple calls Apple Immersive Video. The pièce de resistance? A butterfly that gracefully flies around the room before landing on my outstretched hand.... By the end I’m almost lost for words, a rare moment, but also left with the burning question — what is this all for?"

 
From "I tried the Apple Vision Pro. I was lost for words/The VR headset takes users to 3D experiences that feel incredibly real" by Stuart Miles (London Times).

Here's my burning question: How does it work for people who use different prescription glasses for different distances? I know it doesn't accommodate glasses, but that you can have prescription lenses made and inserted inside the goggles, but I have reading glasses, computer glasses, and distance glasses — not to mention the lenses that were implanted in my eyes when I had cataract surgery. I know you see things as if they were out in the room. So do you get extra strong reading glasses for that? But don't you also see through the front to your actual environment? Reading-level lenses would mess that up. I think the answer is that it only seems that you're looking through the front, but actually you're getting another image that is the same distance from your eyes as everything else. That would explain needing only one type of lens, but I'm still worried about straining/ruining my eyes, looking at something so close for so long. And what about my brain? The eyes are looking at something super-close, so close that IRL you'd go cross-eyed looking at it (but presumably the goggles feed images independently to each eye). And the brain is experiencing these images as if they are out in your environment and adjusts to the fakery. Is that okay?

I can't get past these eye/brain questions, though I suppose I'd sweep them aside if I were hot to get into these virtual experiences. But I'm not. They sound annoying! Maybe if I were a prisoner or a space traveler or an invalid, I could drift into the mindset that would welcome the opportunity to gaze at cute animals and beautiful singers and laughing children, but as a free person in the natural world, I don't see the charm. And I'm saying that as someone who looks at a computer screen for hours a day.