Bodhi on Vision Pro

Every spatial demo answers the question of what you can do here. The thesis question was whether presence alone could hold someone, so there is no menu, no pinch-to-open, no settings panel anywhere in the room. Gaze and voice are the entire surface, and the tree responds to being looked at rather than to being operated.

TradeoffThere is no way to recover from a misunderstanding. When the voice mishears, the user has no control to reach for and no obvious way to steer, and more than one tester sat through a stretch they had no idea how to leave.

Conversational AI defaults to fast turn-taking because latency reads as failure. Here the pauses were the content. Response timing was stretched deliberately and the silence after a question was held rather than filled, so the system reads as patient instead of as waiting for input.

TradeoffThe first ninety seconds feel broken. Several testers assumed the app had hung before they understood that the pacing was the point, and I never found an onboarding line that fixes this without spoiling it.

The instinct on Vision Pro is scale, because scale is what the device does that a screen cannot. But a tree at room scale turns the person wearing the headset into an audience. At roughly two metres, sized to be looked at rather than looked up at, the relationship becomes a conversation.

TradeoffIt gives up the spectacle that makes spatial work legible to anyone who has not worn the headset, and in a small room the placement occasionally lands inside furniture.