Today Apple has began taking pre-orders for its first “spatial pc”, the Vision Pro headset. It will turn out to be accessible, as beforehand introduced, on February 2.
With the pre-order web page come extra particulars in regards to the headset, however let’s begin with pricing. It’s $3,499 with 256GB of storage, $3,699 with 512GB, or $3,899 with 1TB. You can get all variations with one-year financing by way of Apple Card month-to-month installments.
AppleCare+ for the Vision Pro is $499, and offers you limitless repairs for unintended injury safety, an “Express Replacement Service”, and 24/7 precedence entry to Apple consultants. Before you pre-order, you should get a measurement for the sunshine seal and head band, and for that you simply want an iPhone or iPad with Face ID. Then you possibly can add two kinds of Zeiss optical inserts relying in your imaginative and prescient – it’s $99 for Readers inserts, and $149 for Prescription inserts.
To assist individuals come to grips with this solely new product in its portfolio, Apple has produced an nearly 10-minute video that is a “guided tour” of the Vision Pro. Here it is:
Now, within the field you get the headset itself, a twin loop band, a cowl, the battery, a mild seal cushion, a sharpening fabric, a USB-C charging cable, and – you are not going to consider this – an precise charger. So now we’re confused – if any iPhone began at $3,499, would Apple afford to bundle a charger with it then? Or would it abruptly cease caring in regards to the setting by “wastefully” doing that? We’ll most likely by no means know, except inflation actually will get out of hand.
Let’s dive into the specs. The headset is powered by an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU with 4 efficiency cores and 4 effectivity cores, a 10-core GPU, a 16-core Neural Engine, and 16GB of unified reminiscence. The particular R1 chip offers 12ms photon-to-photon latency with 256GB/s reminiscence bandwidth.
Speaking of photons, the shows help 90Hz, 96Hz, and 100Hz refresh fee, with 24fps and 30fps video playback. The micro OLED panels cowl 92% of the DCI-P3 shade area with a 7.5-micron pixel pitch and 23 million whole pixels. You can use AirPlay to morror your view within the Vision Pro on any AirPlay-enabled machine.
The Vision Pro has two high-res important cameras, six world-facing monitoring cameras, 4 eye-tracking cameras, a LiDAR scanner, 4 inertial measurement models, a flicker sensor, and an ambient mild sensor. Additionally, you get iris-based biometrics, six mics, Spatial Audio, and there is Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 on board.
Battery life is quoted as 2 hours of “normal use”, and a pair of.5 hours of video watching. You also can use the headset whereas it’s charging. The Vision Pro weighs between 600 and 650g (the variation is because of totally different mild seal and head band configurations accessible). The separate battery weighs 353g.