They're in the US, where any correction other than simple reading glasses require a prescription. Also, there's a good chance you won't need them if your only correction is reading glasses.
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Apple Vision Pro Headset Supports Prescription Inserts for Glasses Wearers
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These have their own lenses in addition to any prescription inserts. You're focusing at a distance, not up close.
Same here, but some smart optometrist finally caught on and prism correction has largely solved that for me.
That said, I suspect in my cases at least the lazy eye came about because my eyes were normally crossed abit and I began to naturally favor one eye over the other to "ignore" the double vision.
£500 for progressive- just the lenses. Surely they’d be single vision though, so might be cheaper. The price of the thing. Wow. They really don’t want ordinary people to use their products.
The fact the VR headset doesn't support eyeglass wearers is dismaying! There goes a huge swath of the market! (Which was tiny to begin with!).
What percentage of the adult population in the U.S. wears eyeglasses?!
I did some searching and accurate data is hard to come by. What data there is is contradictory. There are also great variations by age — older people far more often wear eyeglasses, even a substantial majority, yet they are the ones with more disposable income!
I'll wager most people who wear eyeglasses aren't going to buy this.
$500 is a lot cheaper?
Sticker shock! 🙈
We get our high quality eyeglasses via a low-cost vision plan, but last I looked the retail cost for a set of lenses AND frame is about that…
Critically, this is an *additional* cost over and beyond their regular glasses!
As people age, their prescriptions change regularly, even annually, so we're quickly talking real money!
Zeus’s for $99? Wow! Is that price confirmed?
One lens or two? What will the extra costs be for progressive lenses? For anti-glare coating? For anti-scratch coating? How well will they work being set farther away from one's eyes? How much RAM will the Zeiss lenses come with? 😎
The real problem is how awkward a solution this is…
Most people are hardly going to want to take the glasses off to use the visor!
Just imagine taking the headset off and you can't find your eyeglasses! That'll be another product line for Apple — mini-Air Tags for your glasses! With a special app — “Find My Glasses”!
Will motor vehicle departments let people drive with the visor on? (Left glasses at home.)
This thing, alas, is going to be mocked the way the Newton's handwriting recognition was!
Perhaps, down the road, the front screen of the visor will feature built-in adjustable prescriptions — similar to adjustable hearing aids.
Shocked — or confused — about the front screen transparency! When I saw the image of the woman whose eyes could be seen through the visor, I thought it was a brilliant approach. User-controlled transparency. Instead, it's a projection! Weird.
Bad job on this, Apple!
What percentage of the adult population in the U.S. wears eyeglasses?!
I did some searching and accurate data is hard to come by. What data there is is contradictory. There are also great variations by age — older people far more often wear eyeglasses, even a substantial majority, yet they are the ones with more disposable income!
I'll wager most people who wear eyeglasses aren't going to buy this.
$500 is a lot cheaper?
Sticker shock! 🙈
We get our high quality eyeglasses via a low-cost vision plan, but last I looked the retail cost for a set of lenses AND frame is about that…
Critically, this is an *additional* cost over and beyond their regular glasses!
As people age, their prescriptions change regularly, even annually, so we're quickly talking real money!
Zeus’s for $99? Wow! Is that price confirmed?
One lens or two? What will the extra costs be for progressive lenses? For anti-glare coating? For anti-scratch coating? How well will they work being set farther away from one's eyes? How much RAM will the Zeiss lenses come with? 😎
The real problem is how awkward a solution this is…
Most people are hardly going to want to take the glasses off to use the visor!
Just imagine taking the headset off and you can't find your eyeglasses! That'll be another product line for Apple — mini-Air Tags for your glasses! With a special app — “Find My Glasses”!
Will motor vehicle departments let people drive with the visor on? (Left glasses at home.)
This thing, alas, is going to be mocked the way the Newton's handwriting recognition was!
Perhaps, down the road, the front screen of the visor will feature built-in adjustable prescriptions — similar to adjustable hearing aids.
Shocked — or confused — about the front screen transparency! When I saw the image of the woman whose eyes could be seen through the visor, I thought it was a brilliant approach. User-controlled transparency. Instead, it's a projection! Weird.
Bad job on this, Apple!
I'm not feeling good about this Apple Vision Pro concept. Kids and adults will be wearing it all day, and it could potentially have negative impacts on their mental, visual, and skin health.
My question is how do you clean this thing after hours of sweat, oil, and who knows what else permeates the fabric? Would it not end up smelling horrible after a while?
Two mini lenses... Starting at $149.99 (rough guess). Ugh. Really can't believe they can't do that via the goggles themselves like other things can do.
Maybe. But we'll remember it was a necessary step in the process of getting to the right solution.
Apple's Newton was a failed - but much needed - step on the path to the iPhone. Apple's first iPhone was incredible, but nothing compared to the iPhones now. Same with the iPad and Apple Watch. The first iterations are nothing like they are now.
And here’s another reason I will never use one of these things. Not only do I wear glasses, my eyes are changing in my late 40s. I can’t look at things up close with my glasses, either. What does that mean for head-mounted (and that itself is a huge non-starter) displays?
This product is for wealthy and lucky people, only, and it will never not be.
This product is for wealthy and lucky people, only, and it will never not be.
This was my first thought too. Sweat, oil, and consider make up. I guess this product will not have much of a used market.
VR has existed for decades now and is still neither. A 3500 dollar headset from Apple with a freaky screen on the front isn't going to change that. Before Apple we had smart watches, phones and tablets (I believe others existed beyond the Newton), this will end up like 3D TVs and fail as people don't like putting things in their heads unnecessarily, more so when this device pretty much does the same things as a tablet or phone.
Vision pro: $ 3499
Lens: $ 999 / piece
Battery pack: $ 999
Cable: $ 299
Case / travel bag: $ 599
anything else?
Lens: $ 999 / piece
Battery pack: $ 999
Cable: $ 299
Case / travel bag: $ 599
anything else?
This thing is an expensive hairstyle ruiner as well. Wonder how hairforce one’s hair handles VisionPro sessions.
Vision Pro Cleaning Kit: $199
Apple Care: $299
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Yes… Apple Polishing Cloth. $19. The most important.
You're styling your hair wrong. Just go Vin Diesel style.
We've had portable phones since 1973. It took 30-40 years for phones to become mainstream.
There were all sorts of iterations along the way.
We've had VR since 1960 and AR since 1968 - well before the first portable phone. Many, many iterations of the technology have been designed and released. I have no doubt that the technology will eventually succeed. It will still take a while, but it will be the future.
Heck, I used the internet back in the early 1980s. It was NOTHING like it is now. But all the small steps since then are what caused it to start to become mainstream in the late-1990s and 2000s. There was a huge step where people started using the internet in the early-2000s, but still the internet was NOTHING like it is today back in 2000.
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Sooo.. I got a question of a similar fashion..
See.. i got a lazy eye. That means that my eyes arent perfectly aligned. I've had surgery and it is mostly imperceptible to others, but the bottom of the line is that I dont have stereoscopic vision. I cant see 3D in other words.
My question is, will the eye tracking work with my eyes, or will the system go haywire due to my eyes not being properly aligned? Has apple talked about this at all?
Thanks!
See.. i got a lazy eye. That means that my eyes arent perfectly aligned. I've had surgery and it is mostly imperceptible to others, but the bottom of the line is that I dont have stereoscopic vision. I cant see 3D in other words.
My question is, will the eye tracking work with my eyes, or will the system go haywire due to my eyes not being properly aligned? Has apple talked about this at all?
Thanks!
I'm amused by all the people saying Zeiss ain't cheap, and it will be $500+ for the inserts. Last year I go a new pair of glasses. Lightweight frames, high reflective index lenses. anti-reflective coatings, progressive prescription. Nothing unusual at all. The retail cost of them was about $1k. (But with my vision insurance I only paid around $350.)
The point I am trying to make is that with Zeiss making custom inserts for a system that will not be mainstream, the skies going to be the limit for any insert prices.
The point I am trying to make is that with Zeiss making custom inserts for a system that will not be mainstream, the skies going to be the limit for any insert prices.