All the amazing visionOS apps we've seen are pretty much 1:1 Microsoft's Hololens demos from 2016, but backed by a real OS, SDK and ecosystem. No smoke and mirrors, no 'concepts’, no 'Contoso’. Apple doesn't have to fake it.
Execution is everything.
@stroughtonsmith except that Netflix app at the end
@stroughtonsmith I remember being on the other side of this doing the ‘bring up’* work for Movies & TV / Groove. The first time I donned it, and brought up movies & tv, pinned it to a wall and wandered around. Mind blown.
But the follow on miss-match between what I saw on the hardware and videos like this… that was a significant disappointment.
@stroughtonsmith *bring up = fixing libs so it was ‘OneCore’ not ‘big boi windows’, and then finding all the missing APIs…
@grork @stroughtonsmith I miss Groove. I still remember how satisfying it was to use that app. The onboarding screen/video was fantastic too.
@stroughtonsmith nice find, I forgot about this vid. Crazy even the pinch gestures seem the same... yet Apple made it feel "new"
@stroughtonsmith I have no idea why Microsoft believed in itself so much that it thought they could pull off a HoloLens product when they can’t even get people to develop native software for Windows.