Alex Heath

Moments after Apple’s WWDC keynote on Monday, I found myself standing outside of the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, facing a circle of Vision Pro headsets on stands for the media to photograph. Moody, instrumental music played as people scrambled to get a glimpse of the company’s first major new product in years.

After a while, the throng started to subside, and I noticed a few of Apple’s top execs trickling into the room, including VP of design Alan Dye, Dan Riccio, and Mike Rockwell, the leader of the headset project from the very beginning. A gaggle of Apple PR and security guards started to quietly make space around some of the headsets next to me while photographers got into position. Tim Cook was about to come out and pose for the cameras...

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