Bank cards will heat up more than normal at the start of the afternoon in France, but also in Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia: Apple is launching this Friday, June 28, from 2 p.m., pre-orders for Vision Pro ! Deliveries will take place on July 12, the day the device will also be sold in Apple Stores.
A dearly paid prototype
The ordering process will require a scan of the head with an iPhone or iPad to determine the size of the light shield and headband. You will also need to think about Zeiss optical inserts for glasses wearers, which will increase the bill by €169 for inserts with prescription (€115 for “reader” lenses).
The mixed reality headset debuted in the United States on February 2, and is now available in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore (pre-orders for these countries began on June 13). And if we were talking about credit cards that were going to heat up soon, that’s not just a figment of the imagination: the Vision Pro is a very high-end product.
The price of the base model, equipped with 256 GB of storage, is indeed €3,999! The 512 GB version costs €4,249, and the 1 TB version costs a whopping €4,499. Suffice to say that this is not the device that Apple is going to democratize its concept of “spatial computing” with… The manufacturer is working on a more affordable model, but one that could still represent a good investment.
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Happy (future) owners of the headset in France will obviously be able to download applications from an App Store localized for the occasion, and access all of Apple’s services (only the American versions were accessible until now). Since the start of the year, more than 2,000 native apps have been developed for visionOS, which is also compatible with 1.5 million iOS and iPadOS apps.
“Compatible” does not mean “perfectly comfortable”: the interface of the iOS or iPadOS apps is poorly suited to control with the Vision Pro’s eyes and fingers. And then the choice of native apps still remains very modest, big names are still absent like YouTube and Netflix, without forgetting more professional apps like Final Cut (on the other hand, Microsoft has optimized Office).
As for the immersive content offered by Apple, we will cover it in a little over an hour. Disney+ and Apple TV fortunately offer a selection of 3D films to delight your eyes. The Vision Pro remains this strange device which looks more like a luxury prototype than a consumer product…
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