Apple unveiled its mixed-reality headset called Apple Vision Pro today, a “revolutionary product” according to Tim Cook.
As for pricing of Vision Pro? It starts at $3,499 USD, or about $4,702 Canadian. That’s pretty expensive. Apple said the cost of a television set, audio, cameras and more would cost more than Vision Pro.
Vision Pro will launch first in the U.S. and expand to more countries next year, which hopefully will include Canada.
The headset is powered by an M2 chip and a new R1 chip and runs visionOS. The device will be available “early next year” in the U.S., so that means 2024.
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It’s cheaper than setting up your own home theatre in a house..haha.
Haha…if Apple says so…
Keep in mind the $3499 will buy you a home theatre system for 1 person only. So it’s $3499 per person.
Wow, and we were thinking the rumoured $3000 price was high. And it’s “starting from $3499” – so that’s just for the low end model! I think this will sell a lot of Quest 3 units once people see the price difference. But it takes 3D pictures. So there’s that.
its a great oportunity for facebook to get their sh*t together and offer a great experience.
Interesting, this is priced the same as Microsoft’s HoloLens 2.
Apple sticking with the PT Barnum School of Retail Sales – there really is a sucker born every minute.
$4700 and it doesn’t come with any VR hand controllers. That’s a huge problem when it comes to VR gaming. The thing is those hand controllers give users access to multiple buttons, triggers, as well as thumbsticks, and touchpads. Therefore you get a lot of different, and rapid input to any VR game or VR app. This is where I cannot see eye, hand, and gestures controls being as rapid, or providing multiple inputs simultaneously to any VR app, or VR game. With that said Apple should provide some kind of standard hand controllers for their VisionOS platform. Otherwise I cannot see Apple’s Vision Pro headset becoming a competing VR gaming platform.