A brand new era of Apple products is right in front of our eyes—literally.

Apple has just released the brand new Apple Vision Pro to the public and the conversation around the virtual reality headset has sparked some serious debate on the future of technology.

The new headset is not your typical virtual reality experience—it’s more akin to your phone but on your face. Unlike the strictly gaming Meta Quest and PSVR (PlayStation VR), Apple’s approach is much more Ready Player One-esque with all of the usual features of an iPhone in the headset.

But wait, aren’t there usually controllers with a VR headset? Not exactly in this case.

Whenever you boot up the headset you scroll through the various windows using both your eyes and your hands.

Yes, Apple is now tracking your eyesight as well as everything else about you!

In all seriousness, Apple’s highly advanced eye-tracking technology is nearly pinpoint. Let’s say if you wanted to open the Safari web browser, all you would have to do is look at the Safari icon and pinch your fingers together.

Who would’ve though that the Macintosh which started with a physical mouse would progress to the Vision Pro’s eye-tracking cursor.

Another advanced feature is how the image resolution is precise at whatever spot you are looking on the screen, but the area around will start to blur.

You access the apps by a simple press of a button on the top right side of the headset. These apps include Safari, the App Store, Apple TV, a mediation app called Mindfulness, and tons of other streaming services.

Those streaming services do include apps like Disney Plus, and one neat feature is that Apple has something similar to wallpapers for the Vision Pro: Backgrounds. Backgrounds transform your environment into a selection of scenery provided by Apple and even has some locations from the Star Wars franchise.

Adjusting a window screen is also done by pinching a corner of the window and dragging it in or out depending on how large you would want the screen. Alternatively, if you wanted to place a window onto a wall and leave it there while you go do something else, you can come back to it still open.

Camera features are also on the Vision Pro surprisingly like screen recording—which just records whatever you are currently doing—and pano phots.

Pano photos are actually better on the Vision Pro due to the ability to actually step around and see the 180 degree view that’s harder to envision on an iPhone.

A brand new type of photo has also been introduced for the Vision Pro: spatial photos. Imagine peering into a photo with a 3D effect and that’s what a spatial photo is.

An actor in the product’s demonstration video described it as “looking into a memory.”

What’s even more mesmerizing is the ability to use FaceTime on the Vision Pro. Calls between a Vision Pro user and a Mac user is pretty normal, but when two Vision Pro users call each other, that’s when the sci-fi begins to manifest.

When a FaceTime call between two Vision Pro users happens, the headset scans your entire face, reconstructs it using artificial intelligence, and matches your facial expression as you’re talking. The best part is that the other caller can see all of this in real time.

The seemingly sci-fi parts of the headset are where the public concerns begin to spread. A main point of the discussion online is if you can have the convenience of an iPhone while still being able to interact with the physical world around yourself, then why not where it all the time?

Honestly, the concept is scary if you think of it 20 years from now. However, there are still major issues with the technology that make people dismiss the idea altogether.

Numerous reports of discomfort and over-warming have been spotted in reviews and the battery can apparently be a bit of a hassle.

The price for the Apple Vision Pro is also excessive: $3,499 for around 250 gigabytes of storage and upwards to $3,999 for a terabyte of storage. Apple’s newest product is quite impressive, but is it that impressive to cost an arm and a leg?

Will Apple’s revolutionary technology usher in a new wave of technology for consumers, or will it be a danger to society?

I don’t think any Beaver Area High Schooler could afford it in the first place, so we should be fine.