Apple Vision Pro hands-on, redux: Immersive Video, Disney app, floating keyboard, and a little screaming

With pre-orders for the Apple Vision Pro headset opening this week, the company is getting ready to launch one of its most significant products ever. It announced this morning an "entertainment format pioneered by Apple" called Apple Immersive Video, as well as new viewing environments in the Disney app featuring scenes from the studio's beloved franchises like the Avengers and Star Wars. We already got hands-on once back at WWDC when the headset was first announced, but two of our editors, Dana Wollman and Cherlynn Low, had a chance to go back and revisit the device (and Dana's case, experience it anew). Since we've already walked you through some of the basic UI elements in our earlier piece, we decided to focus on some of the more recently added features, including Apple Immersive Video, the new Disney environments, a built-in "Encounter Dinosaurs" experience, as well as the floating keyboard, which didn't work for us when we first tried the device in June of last year. Here, too, we wanted to really get at what it actually feels like to use the device, from the frustrating to the joyful to the unintentionally eerie.