Today Apple began taking pre-orders for its first “space computer,” the Vision Pro headphones. It will be available, as previously announced, on February 2.
More details on the headphones arrive with the pre-order page, but let’s start with the prices. It costs $3,499 with 256GB of storage, $3,699 with 512GB, or $3,899 with 1TB. You can get all versions with one-year financing through monthly Apple Card installments.
AppleCare+ for Vision Pro costs $499 and gives you unlimited repairs to protect against accidental damage, an “Express Replacement Service,” and 24/7 priority access to Apple experts.
Before pre-ordering, you need to measure the light seal and headband and for this you need an iPhone or iPad with Face ID. Then you can add two types of Zeiss optical inserts depending on your vision: it costs $99 for Readers inserts and $149 for Prescription inserts.
Now, in the box you’ll find the headphones themselves, a double-loop strap, a cover, the battery, a lightweight sealing pad, a polishing cloth, a USB-C charging cable, and, you wouldn’t believe it, an actual charger. So now we’re confused: If an iPhone started at $3,499, would Apple dare bundle it with a charger? Or would he suddenly stop caring about the environment by doing it “in a wasteful way”? We’ll probably never know, unless inflation really gets out of hand.
Let’s dive into the specifics. The headset is powered by an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, a 10-core GPU, a 16-core neural engine, and 16GB of unified memory. The special R1 chip provides 12 ms photon-to-photon latency with 256 GB/s memory bandwidth.
Speaking of photons, the displays support refresh rates of 90Hz, 96Hz, and 100Hz, with video playback at 24fps and 30fps. The micro OLED panels cover 92% of the DCI-P3 color space with a pixel pitch of 7.5 microns and 23 million total pixels. You can use AirPlay to morrore your view in Vision Pro to any AirPlay-enabled device.
The Vision Pro has two high-resolution main cameras, six world-facing tracking cameras, four eye-tracking cameras, a LiDAR scanner, four inertial measurement units, a flicker sensor, and an ambient light sensor. Plus, you get iris-based biometrics, six microphones, spatial audio, and built-in Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3.
Battery life is 2 hours of “general use” and 2.5 hours of video watching. You can also use the headset while it is charging. The Vision Pro weighs between 600 and 650g (the variation is due to the different light seal and headband configurations available). The separate battery weighs 353 g.
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