Vision Pro looks like it’s going to be really, really cool — for almost everyone. I say almost everyone because there is a (quite large) contingent of users that are going to struggle with the device straight out of the box, and they account for nearly 64% of the US population.
Glasses wearers.
The CEO of Apple wears glasses, for goodness sake — so you would have thought that there would be an option for glasses wearers that doesn’t cost them an extra chunk of cash on top of the already massive price of the headset itself.
Now, however, we’ve learned the true price of the Zeiss optic lenses for both prescription wearers and more ‘casual’ wearers — and while they could’ve been a whole lot more expensive, they’re by no means cheap.
Sorry glasses wearers, you’ll have to pay more than everyone else
So there are two options for glasses wearers — the prescription option, which is going to cost $149, and the reading option which will set you back $99. Now, it’s worth noting that those aren’t as much as they could’ve been, with concerns that they’d be multiple hundreds of dollars.
It does feel cheeky, if nothing else, that there isn’t some kind of included lens option for people that need it. If you can’t wear your glasses in the thing, as it would appear, then you would have thought a built-in system that can be configured on purchase would have been the way to go.
Unfortunately, that’s not the way that Apple has set it up, instead opting for a separate purchase. Undoubtedly those lenses are going to be high quality, and they click into place with magnets for that effortless simplicity we’ve come to expect — but glasses wearers can, and likely will, feel slightly hard done by.
Vision Pro is coming out February 2, and preorders open January 19 — and, at one point to the lenses, you won’t have to wait for them to come out afterward. They’re launching alongside the headset.
