You can immerse yourself in environments on the Apple Vision Pro.
Haleakalā. Yosemite. Mount Hood. The Moon. Joshua Tree. White Sands.
One of these is not like the others.
"Environments let you transform your physical surroundings into a different place..."
- Apple
You could conceivably travel to each environment and stand in the physical location. These were all chosen for their beauty and expansiveness.
Joshua Tree
1,235 sq miles
Yosemite National Park
1,189 sq miles
Haleakalā
52 sq miles
Mount Hood National Forest
1,667 sq miles
White Sands National Park
227 sq miles
The Moon is 14.6 million sq miles
But where are you on the moon?
The Apollo missions took 14,227 photos.
Thirty-three panoramas were stitched together.
Apollo 11 JUL 69
Mare Tranquillitatis
0.67416°N 23.47314°E
Apollo 12 NOV 69
Oceanus Procellarum
3.0128°S 23.4219°W
Apollo 14 FEB 71
Fra Mauro Highlands 3.64589°S 17.47194°W
Apollo 15 AUG 71
Hadley Rille
26.13239° N 3.63330° E
Apollo 16 APR 72
Descartes Highlands
8.9734°S 15.5011°E
Apollo 17 DEC 72
Taurus-Littrow Valley
20.1911°N 30.7655°E
Apollo 17 Station 5
Apollo 17
Apollo 17
Apollo 17
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The Apple Vision Pro has parallax in the environment. You can "see around" the big triangle rock.
Which makes the screenshots misaligned. The photos are also taken at a higher angle than capable of Apple Vision Pro. (I didn't get on a ladder to check.)
It's interesting to see what has been changed. Some rocks have been removed, while others have been added.
I wonder what that says about the aesthetics of the Moon, or what we believe they should be.
Every location you could travel to tomorrow. Millions of people have been there already and millions more will join them.
But not the Moon. Only two people have ever, and perhaps will ever, step foot in that place.
But we get to join them every time we turn the Digital Crown.
