Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Basically Homeless
Topics: Apple, YouTube, Technology
Kit Roberts
A man has taken things to a whole other level by building his own knockoff of the Apple Vision Pro.
YouTuber, Basically Homeless, set out to create something which tried to emulate the principle of Apple's new product.
And while it's clear the result is nowhere as sleek and mobile as the Apple Vision Pro, it does manage to emulate its basic functionality.
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This includes the things like being able to use your hands to open menus on the device.
That's pretty impressive considering that he managed to build that using parts and items obtained from a thrift store.
Let's just say that the final result is not exactly sleek, in fact, 'ramshackle' might be a better way of putting it.
But that didn't stop viewers from being mightily impressed by the YouTuber's creativity and ingenuity.
So how on earth did he manage to build a functioning knock off of the Apple Vision Pro?
He started by trying to put a monitor, PC, and camera directly onto his head with a strap.
But this method was quickly shown to not be viable as they were too heavy.
The YouTuber solved this problem by simply putting everything onto a helmet.
While he was able to click things using his hands, he didn't quite have the same augmented reality that the Apple Vision Pro has.
Instead, he effectively live streamed what the camera was filming in front of him as the background on the screen.
He could then click and manipulate things in front of him on the screen.
Obviously this is not a complete emulation of Apple's latest big release, but there's no denying it's still mightily impressive to be able to put this together.
And people in the comments were universally impressed by the YouTuber's efforts with his device.
They took to the comments to express their admiration.
One person humorously compared the YouTuber to Marvel character Iron Man, joking: "'BASICALLY HOMELESS WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!'- Tim Cook".
Another commended the YouTuber for taking a more creative approach to the new product.
They wrote: "While every other YouTuber was busy getting their hands on the Apple Vision Pro and record the exact same review everyone else already uploaded my man built his own. Absolute legend."
Someone else was delighted by the video, writing: "Bro is definitely a crazy genius and I love it."
Finally, one person made a rather poignant observation that 'rough tech' videos like this might be entertaining, but also show people what's possible.
They wrote: "This dude unknowingly inspiring the next generation of innovative scientists."