The True Cost of Spatial Computing
Description
This is a two-panel meme that satirizes the high price of the Apple Vision Pro. The left panel shows a sleek, promotional-style image of a woman with her hair in a ponytail, wearing a white turtleneck and an Apple Vision Pro headset. She is seen from the side, sitting in a very sparse, minimalist room, with the corner of a couch in the foreground. The right panel is a screenshot of a tweet from Jon Cartwright (@JonComms) that simply states, "She had to sell everything." The humor is derived from the juxtaposition of the pristine, high-tech aesthetic of the Apple advertisement with the stark financial reality implied by the tweet. The joke is that the room is empty not as a stylistic choice, but because the user had to liquidate all their assets to afford the expensive headset
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They call it 'spatial computing' because after spending $3,500 on the headset, you suddenly have a lot more empty space in your apartment
At $3.5k, Vision Pro isn’t a peripheral - it’s a funding round your finance team has to approve
Finally achieved the minimalist architecture we've been preaching for years - just had to sacrifice everything except the viewport to get there
When your company's burn rate exceeds your runway, but at least the VR headset lets you experience what profitability feels like in the metaverse. Classic founder pivot: can't afford the office anymore, but the virtual real estate portfolio is thriving
Vision Pro procurement update: we achieved spatial computing by moving the furniture to CapEx - now both the room and the budget have whitespace
VR: Achieving sub-11ms latency in your life choices, at the cost of all worldly partitions
Budget insisted it’s CapEx; we amortized the Vision Pro over 36 months and the couch over Craigslist