Vision Pro to Make a Worldwide Release Soon?
The Apple Vision Pro is likely to make a worldwide release next month. In a recent report, Bloomberg highlighted that employees from several international stores have been flown into the US to undergo training in the usage of the headset.
This move is speculated to be a step towards a worldwide release for the Vision Pro, which was released in the US in February last year. Now, Apple is expected to release the spatial computer during the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference to be held between June 10 and 14.
Ahead of its release, let’s look at how the Vision Pro and similar spatial computers could change industries for the better in India, especially when it comes to tasks that are dangerous or extensive.
Top Apple Vision Pro Use Cases for Users
Disaster Management and Emergency Response
Healthcare
Aerospace and Aviation
Oil and Gas
Agriculture and Food Production
Cultural Preservation
Urban Planning and Infrastructure
Manufacturing
Scientific Research
1. Disaster Management and Emergency Response
As the seventh largest country in the world, India is disaster-prone in several areas, be it in terms of floods, cyclones, and earthquakes, or even smaller challenges of dealing with rain-inundated areas or fighting a fire.
Issues with disaster management, according to the National Disaster Management Authority, include the lack of local data and coordination. These can be rectified through the use of the device, which helps in assessing, compiling, and providing real-time information, and improving coordination efforts between departments and on-ground responders.
Additionally, it can double up as a training device, allowing responders to simulate potential disasters in order to devise effective strategies.
2. Healthcare
The Vision Pro has already seen several uses in healthcare, both in the UK as well as in India. Recently, doctors in Chennai made use of the mixed-reality headset during several surgeries, to aid them in real-time monitoring.
Additionally, in areas lacking in continuous training capabilities, a one-time investment in the MR device could help train several batches of students in particularly sensitive areas, like surgery or even diagnosis, without the potential risks associated with it.
3. Aerospace and Aviation
Similarly, with real-time monitoring a major factor in the aviation and aerospace industries, the headset could help in improving these capabilities, while lowering the costs in providing a portable real-time monitoring device.
It could also help lower the risk of accidents, particularly in low visibility areas and situations where pilots are cut-off from ATC towers. It can also aid repair work, particularly in spotting anomalies, as well as in training both flight crew and technicians in simulated settings.
4. Oil and Gas
Safety being a high priority in the oil and gas industry, the Vision Pro could serve as a potential remedy for issues in real-time assessments for risk and emergency responses.
Like disaster management, this could also help companies draft effective emergency response strategies through the use of MR simulations. MR headsets could also lower risks with fewer workers needed to deal with situations in hazardous environments, with the use of real-time monitoring by remote experts.
5. Agriculture and Food Production
With drought and food shortages a major point of contention in India, particularly recently, the Vision Pro could help assess on-ground situations on a case-by-case basis. Though this would be an expensive investment, it could help government officials aid farmers in understanding the reasons behind crop failure.
6. Cultural Preservation
An interesting use case for the Vision Pro could be in preserving cultural monuments within the country. In an era of rapid urbanisation and looming threat of losing out on history, the tool could help in mapping out and providing a timeless experience for tourists, even in the event of the loss of a historical site.
Additionally, MR could help tourists and historians understand heritage sites better with simulated environments created out of ruins.
7. Urban Planning and Infrastructure
As mentioned, rapid urbanisation has taken a grip over India, however, concerns on effective urbanisation have long been a point of contention. In addition to architectural capabilities, the Vision Pro could help in aiding urban planning, even going so far as to simulate developments in villages, towns and cities, to understand how they will fare in the future.
This would also help in ensuring that long-term proposals for urban planning remain effective well into the future.
8. Manufacturing
Large-scale manufacturers could lower the costs of training or even bridge the training gap by investing in MR capabilities. The potential for workers to train using the Vision Pro, without the need for an instructor or without the necessary training materials, could help in lowering the risk of accidents caused due to the lack of training.
This would be particularly helpful in the case of India, where there is a lack of qualified candidates for highly specialised roles like machine operating.
9. Scientific Research
A lot of the use cases mentioned above, such as healthcare, agriculture, aviation, engineering, could all use the Vision Pro for research purposes too. Despite a more hefty price, compared to current simulation tech, scientific visualisation could become much cheaper with devices like the Vision Pro.
Especially with tech like Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold making rapid advancements.
