How to Create Virtual Memories that Will Last Forever With Vision Pro
A groom shares how Apple Vision Pro could have changed everything about remembering his wedding day — and why today's couples have an opportunity he didn't.
As a groom, I can tell you that the most important moment at my wedding was when I exchanged my vows with my wife. We stood hand in hand on the altar together to plead our hearts out to each other while we exchanged our rings. When the moment passed, we sealed the moment by giving each other our first kiss as man and wife. I would like to tell you how vividly I remember holding her hand, and what I remember of speaking out the words I said in front of her, our justice, and our families that bore witness to the blessed event, but I can't. I know I said my vows to her because I still have a copy of the vows I had written in advance, and a crowd of witnesses also confirmed to me after the fact that it was a beautiful event that went smoothly, but my own personal memories of how I acted in my own wedding are a complete blur to me. The reality of the situation for someone that was standing up there was that the event was a culmination of an extremely stress-filled advanced plan, and at the moment I was standing in front of my future wife, my brain had been hopped up on so much stress and adrenaline that when the time finally came to perform, my mouth felt like it was on auto-pilot while my brain felt like it was on cruise control. Due to a combination of those factors, I can tell you I have NO personal memories of that major life event.
My wife and I had agreed with our wonderful photography team and our guests in advance that there would be no video capturing the exchanging of vows. We believed having video cameras out (or allowing guests to record video) would be too much of a distraction and be disrespectful to the decorum of the symbolic event. Four years later, I have many wonderful still images of the moments where my wife and I were standing together at the altar, which bring about flashes of memory of our blessed moment, but these flashes of memory are only fleeting and are fading even more with time.
Two years after I married my wife, a new piece of technology entered the market, Apple called it Vision Pro, and it changed my life forever. Essentially, it is a wearable computer, capable of operating independently without tethering to an existing computer or smart device. Since it uses the same hardware and software as a MacBook, I've used it regularly to perform office work, surf the web, check email and messages, video conference with my peers, and watch full-length feature films as if I'm in a 3D IMAX cinema. As someone who frequently must drive five hours to patronize the only decent IMAX in my region, the Vision Pro is a product that I've literally waited my whole life for.
Beyond all the exclusive programs and third-party streaming apps Vision Pro offers, there is a little-known feature tied to its camera function. Because Vision Pro has a 3D display, it can natively provide supported content (video and pictures) in native 3D. In fact, that's what the spatial camera mode Apple added into their most recent iPhones were meant for, to allow the user to produce native 3D content for viewing on the Vision Pro. There is currently no known method for spatial video distribution online, but two Apple devices (for example, an iPhone and iPad or an iPhone and Vision Pro) in range of each other can exchange files through AirDrop, and spatial content sent through this method will retain its spatial features. The Vision Pro itself also has a built-in spatial camera, capable of recording 3D video directly from the wearer's point of view. That video can then be rewatched as much as the user wants, reliving the moment as it happened, as if it is happening again.
Had Vision Pro existed before my wife and I married, I could have recorded a 3D point-of-view video of the moment I told the love of my life how much she meant to me and relived that beautiful moment whenever I wanted. I cannot tell you how much I envy today's couples, who have this technology available to them now. I cannot remember my own once-in-a-lifetime moment myself, but since the Vision Pro launched, new couples now have a deluge of previously impossible options at their fingertips, and a whole new world of capturing your memories has opened up!
— Joe C, Groom and Vision Pro Enthusiast
Cover photo by Still Media Group