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Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro Starts Shipping in February 75

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
Apple has announced it will start shipping its Vision Pro headset on February 2nd in the United States. Pre-orders begin January 19th at 8AM ET. From a report: In addition to announcing the availability of its $3,499 headset, Apple also revealed the pricing for the Zeiss prescription lenses that users can get with it. Readers will be available for an extra $99, while prescription lenses will cost $149.
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  • $3,500 for a bigger screen? I can already pay that money and buy a bigger screen, and not have to strap ski goggles to my head. This is stupid.

    You want people to buy your VR goggles? Come up with an actual solution to an actual problem. This is the cart before the horse.

    • Apple also revealed the pricing for the Zeiss prescription lenses that users can get with it.

      You may be underestimating which problems were the real roadblocks here.

    • No man, it makes sense. I'm not sure what you're home office looks like, but I do not have physical room for three monitors. With VR goggles, I would. Having said that, am I paying 3.5 k for them. No, not for a first gen apple product. But for the second gen thats much better and cheaper? Its a temptation. If I were gifted it by cooperate benefactors, I would make good use out of it, assuming it doesn't give me massive headaches.

      • Big screens have diminishing returns. I had two large 4k screens at work. I downgraded to one during the pandemic for space reasons in my chosen home office and found it a little worse, but not really that much. I downgraded again when I quit to a 2460x1440 screen, which is a bit worse yeah though the area is not much smaller, so I use slightly smaller fonts. It's not really that bad however. I'd definitely get a 4k screen if I was in the market, but it's not enough of a bump for me to actually shell out th

        • Big screens have diminishing returns.

          Diminishing, sure... but not negligible returns.

          I have three monitors on my desktop (all 4K), and I wouldn't want to lose them. Losing one would be an inconvenience, but not too bad. Losing two would be an unacceptable reduction in screen real-estate. I would love to have VR goggles that are light, comfortable, high resolution and fast enough to wear all day long, and just fill my virtual view space with windows. I think we're a few years away from something like that, though.

      • if you put up 3.5k upfront your salary would be bigger and this pay for the device that gave you a raise with the raise itself
        ( think mcfly think )

    • I'm getting one, mainly because I think it has potential .. I'm looking at it as a charitable donation. I could donate that money to St. Jude's Hospital or something but Apple clearly needs the money more in order to R&D this thing more. I admit the current Vision Pro is a ripoff, but it has potential. It'll be worth the money if it had the same form factor as the Bigscreen Beyond (120 grams instead of 600 grams) and had higher resolution (8K per eye instead of 4K). It should get there by end of decade.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by stripes ( 3681 )

      Come up with an actual solution to an actual problem. This is the cart before the horse

      I have one, but it is pretty niche. I do laser cutting as a hobby. My most recent laser cutter is a 40W diode laser in the visible spectrum. I have it in an enclosure with some class two laser safety plexiglass, which if the laser strikes it directly it'll just cut through. Unfortunately even catching the reflected light from the class three laser might be too much for it to prevent enough laser energy from escaping

  • VR/AR (Score:2)

    by ledow ( 319597 )

    Look, I spent GBP1000 ($1,276) on a Vive Pro setup, and everyone called me mad.

    I know it's Apple, but I honestly will judge anyone I know who goes out and spends this amount of money on anything VR/AR. Not just "Yeah, you're an Apple fan just wasting your money" but "You are quite literally insane".

    • People spend multiple grand in a fancy computer all the time. This is a fancy computer with all the screens you could ever want built in. I honestly think Apple might have a market. How much would 8 both high quality monitors cost?

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Z80a ( 971949 )

        The fancy computer can run software written for potato computers as well.
        The vision pro will have to deal with software written for the vision pro only.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by stripes ( 3681 )

          The vision pro will have to deal with software written for the vision pro only.

          It lets you "project" a Mac display into it (yeah, it won't run the MacOS software). It will actually tun iPad apps directly (yeah, ok, maybe of limited value, but it is a lot more then "just what is made specifically for the brand new limited market sized product").

    • The value of such a system is relative to the use case for it, of course. Your use case may not be theres, and god knows people blow much more money on non essential luxury items. If this is your thing, ok no different than buying a luxury watch, handbag or heck car. This is less than half for a FSD upgrade, and way more functional :)

    • I know it's Apple, but I honestly will judge anyone I know who goes out and spends this amount of money on anything VR/AR. Not just "Yeah, you're an Apple fan just wasting your money" but "You are quite literally insane".

      Do remember, that there are a LOT of people out there with a LOT of disposable income, and that this purchase isn't going to even be a blip on the monthly bank statement, much less "break" the bank.

      You are not their target audience for this first go around.

      And...that's ok.

      • There are simply not that many potential customers for this. Of those who could afford it, the majority will not want to strap shit onto their head.

        A few people with more money than sense will buy it to say they bought it.

        A few people without that much money but who are rabid Apple fans will do the same.

        Everyone else is going to blow it off, even if they can afford it. They will wait for a cheaper version. The iPod was affordable, so it became popular. This isn't. It won't.

  • What a value! (Score:4, Funny)

    by OwP_Fabricated ( 717195 ) <fabricated&gmail,com> on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:49PM (#64141333)

    $3500 for a headset with the following killer apps:

    1. Check your email in space
    2. Watch half of a movie on a single charge, unless you want to be plugged into a wall.
    3.

    I'll take 10.

  • Buyer Beware of First-Gen Apple Products (Score:3)

    by Vandil X ( 636030 ) on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:53PM (#64141351)
    Apple has a track record of releasing a first-gen product, and then soon after, replacing it with a better, second-gen product, and dropping software support and/or feature support for the first-gen in a year or two.

    By all means, pick one up if it interests you. But that $3500 might not have as much longevity as you might hope.

    • Apple has a track record of releasing a first-gen product, and then soon after, replacing it with a better, second-gen product, and dropping software support and/or feature support for the first-gen in a year or two.

      This... This is exactly what this product will be. Remember iPad1 vs 2. Same is going to happen here.

    • By all means, pick one up if it interests you. But that $3500 might not have as much longevity as you might hope.

      I think the first release here is really about charging developers to buy the hardware outright and the consumer version will launch next year when they have actual apps and some idea of what people could actually do with it.

    • Apple has a track record of releasing a first-gen product, and then soon after, replacing it with a better, second-gen product,

      Not sure that is true this time, from what I've heard at least three years to the next model.

      • Sorry but I remembered two and my mind wrote out three... I would say TWO years to the next version, not three.

      • Not sure that is true this time, from what I've heard at least three years to the next model.

        Bullshit, rumor is already out that they're going to release a blue one this summer. Then, around the holidays, "A Black Hole" one, which is not just "black" like regular stuff, but rather which is so black that it physically cannot reflect light.

        So that's three updates right there in less than a year. Not even counting the headset holder which is on deck for this spring, which will cost less than one-third of the

  • There goes my hope (Score:5, Funny)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:22PM (#64141639)

    I was hoping they'd call it iEyes.

  • Cos I've been burned by this company before, see.

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