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Steve Jobs on Virtual Reality (D3, 2005)

Milan Lajtoš · interview · Watch on YouTube

VR, AR & spatial computingTech pioneers & interviews

What it is

A one-minute clip of Steve Jobs at the D3 conference in 2005 discussing virtual reality. He compares VR headsets to headphones for video, an analogy later applied to Apple's Vision Pro.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it in Vision Pro and AR threads as Jobs's concise take that a headset is like headphones for video.

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What HN commenters said

  1. “Steve Jobs said it best”

    Jobs on headphones for video and his Vision Pro opinion.

    Geee, 2025-06 · Recommendation · in “Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: steve jobs, vision pro, vr, apple, spatial computing

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