A wedding in San Francisco took an unexpected turn when the groom wore a $3,500 Apple Vision Pro during photos and reception after the ceremony.
Cambree, the bride, looked less than pleased in a photo posted to X, while Jacob, a software engineer, smiled at the camera with his face partially covered by the bulky Vision Pro headset and fingers pinched in the air.
The photo was posted just two weeks after the release of the Vision Pro, which recently experienced a sales dip, with one percent of buyers returning the device.
The bride begged her husband-to-be to leave the headphones in the car during their big day, but her husband-to-be ignored her wishes and wore them anyway.
Jacob Wright wore his Apple Vision Pro headset for photos after his wedding ceremony
“I didn’t wear it during a ceremony out of respect for God and my wife,” Jacob said Futurism.
“But after we got out of the ceremony, we were taking pictures, like the bridesmaids and the groomsmen and stuff, and jokingly I was like, ‘Hey, I have my Apple Vision Pro in my backpack.’
Jacob Wright, 24, works at AI startup Runpod, and said he rushed to buy the Vision Pro two days after its release, something that bothers his new wife.
When he puts on the headphones at home, Cambree says SFGoes that she’s “trying not to look because it’s a little creepy, it’s a little creepy.”
“When he’s in the Apple Vision Pro, I let him do his thing.”
Jacob asked Cambree two or three times if he could wear the Vision Pro, and although she repeatedly told him “no,” she told SFGate, “And then I turn around for a minute and he’s got it on.”
“I look totally pissed off in the photo,” she told the outlet. “But I wasn’t angry.”
Jacob wore the headphones during the reception to record him and his new bride and their guests dancing and celebrating their marriage
However, Cambree told Futurism that she told Jacob he could wear the device after he asked if they could please take pictures of him wearing it.
“So I thought, ‘Yeah, it’s fine if everyone else leaves.’ But it was the last thing I wanted pictures of,” she said.
And while she similarly acknowledged that she looked “pissed off” in the photo, she told Futurism, “I just thought it was funny.”
Jacob claimed he only wore the headset for Instagram, but then decided to wear it during the reception to record immersive videos and photos to look back on in the future.
“I have a video of me there with all the bridesmaids, all the groomsmen – everyone who came to the ceremony,” Jacob told Futurism.
“I think it will be super awesome to show our kids in 20 years,” he added.
Apple’s Vision Pro took off immediately, even before its official release, selling approximately 200,000 headsets within hours of opening pre-orders for the product.
Apple Vision Pro users say they get stared at by curious onlookers when they wear the $3,500 gadget in public
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But within a week of the gadget’s release, Vision Pro users said they were stared at by onlookers while wearing them while walking and on city transport.
One person was even stopped and fined for wearing his Vision Pro headset while driving his Tesla Y model in autopilot mode.
Apple’s Vision Pro allows users to merge their real world with virtual reality, using their eyes, voice and hands.
The device allows users to watch movies on a large projected screen while allowing users to view their surroundings at the same time.
The device also allows you to work on your computer, without the need for a monitor, and capture videos and photos so users can re-immerse themselves in the moment years later.
It supports a million apps from iOS and iPadOS to play games and stream movies.
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said the ‘Vision Pro is the most advanced consumer electronics device ever created.
“The revolutionary and magical user interface will redefine the way we connect, create and discover.”
The price of the Vision Pro starts at $3,500 for the standard 256 GB storage, but goes up to $3,699 for 512 GB storage.
If consumers want to increase storage further to 1TB, the price rises to $3,899, with an additional $99 for optical inserts.