I love virtual reality. I love it so much that corners of my flat look like a VR graveyard, with assorted VR headsets – a Meta Quest here, a PSVR there – covered in more cobwebs than a Halloween Walmart display. I haven't used them in months, maybe years, because so far, they're not compelling enough. Right now VR is still an answer looking for a question – and I'm worried that with the Vision Pro, Apple has come up with the most expensive and impressive answer yet.
There's never a bad time to remember long-time Apple fan Douglas Adams, or his legendary gag in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. A hyper-intelligent race of super-beings builds Deep Thought, a supercomputer, to calculate the answer to life, the universe, and everything. After many thousands of years, the calculation is done and the answer provided: it's forty-two.
