US Apple stores on Friday began selling the Vision Pro, the tech giant’s $3,499 headset and its first major release since the Apple Watch nine years ago.
Vision Pro’s arrival from the world’s most iconic device maker is a major milestone for the lovers of virtual or augmented reality, who see the technology as the next chapter in online life after the smartphone.
But with a high sticker price, and the middling success of similar and cheaper releases from Facebook owner Meta, early reviews expressed doubt that the Vision Pro will be a game-changer, at least for now.
The Vision Pro is an “astonishing” product, wrote tech website The Verge, but “also represents a series of really big trade-offs” that are “impossible to ignore.”
It is “an impressive product, one that has been many years and billions of dollars in the making,” but “even after trying it, I still have no idea whom or what this thing is supposed to be for,” wrote…
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