Apple has revealed its AR headset: The Vision Pro. It costs $3,500 and its OLED screens deliver over 4K resolution per eye.
Not-so-good: It uses an external battery pack that only lasts for two-hours
We still haven't reached RayBan glasses territory—this is still a headset like the $1,000 Meta Quest Pro—but the one-piece curved glass front is cool touch, even if I'm weirded out by the magnified-looking eyeballs it displays, which apparently will look correct in-person. The tech still being young, it's mainly the most basic specs of new AR or VR headsets that get me curious: tracking and resolution. As for tracking, the Vision Pro is free of external sensors like the Meta Quest, but unlike the Quest is also controller-free. Meta can do hand tracking without a controller, too, but it perhaps speaks to Apple's confidence that it hasn't even announced Vision Pro controllers.
It sounds amazing, but simulated demo videos don't give a true sense of what the field of view is like—Microsoft's Hololens did not live up to the promises of stage demos in that respect. Apple claims that"a specially designed three‑element lens creates the feeling of a display that's everywhere you look," which is big if true, but a see-it-to-believe it sort of thing.
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