Objects in Apple’s Vision Are Closer Than They Appear

Lauren Goode: Yes.

Brenda Stolyar: Yes.

Michael Calore: Lauren.

Lauren Goode: Mike.

Michael Calore: Lauren, where are you? I can’t see your eyes. I look at your face and I just see sort of a bluish purple blob where your eyes are. Are you in there?

Lauren Goode: Hold on. Let me twist my digital crown on my Apple Vision Pro headset.

Michael Calore: Oh, I can see your eyes now, but you still feel kind of like distant. You’re not really paying attention.

Lauren Goode: That’s the thing with mixed reality. You’re there, but you’re not. But you’re here, but you’re not.

Michael Calore: Are you present enough to do a podcast?

Lauren Goode: I think we should podcast.

Michael Calore: OK. Let’s do it.

Michael Calore: Hi everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I am Michael Calore. I’m a senior editor at WIRED.

Lauren Goode: And I’m Lauren Goode. I’m a senior writer at WIRED.

Michael Calore: And we are also joined this week by WIRED product writer and reviewer Brenda Stolyar. Welcome back, Brenda.

Brenda Stolyar: Thank you. I’m happy to be back one year later.

Michael Calore: Yes, you are here in the room with us for our 600th episode. You should feel totally honored.

Brenda Stolyar: Oh, wow.

Lauren Goode: Oh my gosh. It’s the 600th episode.

Michael Calore: It’s number six zero zero.

Brenda Stolyar: Congrats you guys.

Michael Calore: Thanks.

Lauren Goode: I wonder what that number means in numerology. We should look it up.

Brenda Stolyar: Ooh.

Lauren Goode: Might be a special number.

Brenda Stolyar: Look it up for the end of the show.

Lauren Goode: Yeah. I will.

Brenda Stolyar: OK.

Michael Calore: It means the singularity is approaching.

Lauren Goode: We should probably tell people what we were originally planning for our 600th episode.

Michael Calore: We were going to float in a pool.

Lauren Goode: We were. We had an extremely random idea that we were just going to go find a pool somewhere, and all of us were going to sit there and tread water with our little Zoom handy recorders up to our faces and record a podcast. And our producer was actually on board with this.

Michael Calore: Sure.

Lauren Goode: Boone, the most excellent producer in the world. Most producers would be like, “This sounds like a nightmare from an audio perspective. You’re bringing electronics into the pool.” We were like, “No, we’re going to do this.” We had a pool in mind, and we were going to invite Mat Honan to come on the show.

Michael Calore: Yeah, just ghosts of Gadget Lab past, I think.

Lauren Goode: Yeah. We had this whole plan, and then Apple happened.

Michael Calore: And then Apple happened.

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