John Ternus Compares Vision Pro to Early Macs in Recent Interview

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Vision Pro to me is an amazing device, right? It’s an absolutely amazing device, but I think of it as like the early days of computers, right? It is the early days of a long journey. That’s how I feel about Vision Pro.

And what you see is, if you think about the early days, people found different reasons where the computer allowed them—the Mac allowed them—to do something never before possible, like desktop publishing, and it became a big thing in that industry.

What you’re seeing with Vision Pro now is certainly there’s early adopters who love it, and they’re using it and they’re enjoying it, but you also [have] surgeons [who] are starting to use it in surgery because it’s just a fundamentally better tool for them than a monitor that’s kind of sitting over here. And so it’s growing in that area.

And in film production, people are using it for set development and things like that. So we’re going to continue to grow and find more and more compelling use cases. And I think there’s a very bright future for [Vision Pro].

John Ternus, Clique interview

Examples of those uses include Sharp HealthCare’s cataract surgery study and ScopeXR’s surgical collaboration tools, alongside virtual set planning for The Mandalorian and Grogu and post-production work on Wicked.