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I tried Apple's most ambitious Vision Pro feature yet, and it let me down in the best way

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Spectrum Front Row emulates the experience of sitting courtside.

Best, closest thing to sitting in the VIP row of an NBA game.

It's everything you can imagine - the good, bad, and ugly.

I've been let down by the Los Angeles Lakers hundreds of times. But never has it happened the way that it did this weekend.

Following a toiling week at CES, there was nothing more captivating to me than the opportunity to watch a full, hours-long Lakers game in the Apple Vision Pro by the time I got home.

See, I'm based in New York, so my best chance of catching the latest Spectrum Front Row in Apple Immersive experience -- which puts you courtside, effectively on the scorer's table -- is by watching a replay a few days after the live broadcast.

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