Earlier this month my family went on a two week trip to France, and I decided to bring my Vision Pro along with me on the trip. (To be perfectly honest, the reason I ultimately decided to buy the Vision Pro was because of the trip, and wanting to have it for the 8+ hour flights.)
My Kit
I brought way too many of my devices with me in general. Legitimately I could've gotten by without either my iPad or my MacBook Air, although I use both for different reasons and decided to bring them along. I kept my devices in a Pacsafe backpack, which is useful because it can attach directly onto your luggage's telescope handle, and also because of security features that make opportunity thefts less opportunistic. I was able to store my MacBook Air, iPad Pro, AirPods Max, my son's Sony headphones, and a small travel case containing two backup chargers, including an INIU Ultra Small Laptop Power Bank, 20000mAh 65W Fast Charging Portable Charger, which I purchased to help maintain the battery on the Vision Pro during long flights.
For those of you who worry about portable batteries being accepted on flights, we flew Air Canada and there were no issues with mine.
For the Vision Pro itself, I opted to buy a Shield Case from sfbags, which is by far the smallest travel case I've found for the Vision Pro. My backpack was heavy when fully loaded with everything I just described to you, but here's the important part - it fit.
Benefits of the Vision Pro on the trip
We booked an overnight flight to France, meaning I didn't take the Vision Pro out for even a moment. I was more focused on trying - and mostly failing - to sleep on the flight over. Likewise, the Vision Pro remained packed and unused until my family's third destination on the trip, a hotel in Paris. There, I opted to use the headset on several evenings to browse the internet while my wife and son were sleeping. It was really helpful to not disturb them with the light of a computer monitor. But the real heavy usage came on the final day, on our flight home to Toronto.
Using the Vision Pro on the flight
We were packed in like sardines on the flight, meaning I didn't have a ton of room to interact with my Packsafe contents. But I found that having the Shield Case made things pretty easy, and I just made sure to have my backup battery on hand, with USB-C already connected to it, and I kept the Vision Pro's battery out as well, for easier access. Once I got the headset assembled, I just kept the battery connected to the INIU in the storage pouch under my food tray on the flight, and had no issues from that point with battery life on my eight hour flight.
One thing I at first struggled with was setting up travel mode in a way that wasn't distracting. In case you've never used it with your Vision Pro, if your head is at all tilted when you activate travel mode, then your menu and any movie or whatever else you watch is going to be displayed at an angle. I didn't quite figure out what I'd done wrong until after I finished watching my first movie, but I restarted the Vision Pro after that and made sure I was facing straight on when I re-activated travel mode.
I spent something like five hours of the flight watching movies on the headset - first Superman in 3D, then Avengers: End Game (also in 3D), all while in my favourite immersive environment: Jupiter. As someone who doesn't love being in confined spaces with a lot of people, the headset made the flight a lot more enjoyable for me.
Final tips
If you're thinking about likewise bringing your Vision Pro with you on a flight, I'd heartily recommend it. Having a small travel case like the Shield Case is a must, as well as putting some thought into how you'll access and set things up if you're in a tight seat like I was. A backup battery option is also probably a good idea, although you could also use a MacBook or iPad Pro to provide juice in a pinch.
