William Gallagher
With no apparent supply chain information, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that Apple Vision Pro's Zeiss prescription lenses will cost between $300 and $600.
Apple has already revealed that it is in partnership with Zeiss to produce vision-correction lenses for the Vision Pro, specifically for users who wear glasses. Pointing to the very long development of the new device, that partnership was originally reported back in 2017.
However, neither Apple nor Zeiss have yet announced pricing. It's unlikely that a company that sells $400 wheels for the Mac Pro, will make a low-cost Vision Pro accessory.
I would guess that the Zeiss prescription lenses for the Vision Pro will be at least $300-600 a pair, unless Apple is eating part of the cost given the already high price of the headset itself.
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) June 6, 2023
Seemingly based solely on that reasoning, and perhaps on how Zeiss lenses used to cost up to $200, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is predicting a price range of at least $300-$600.
Zeiss already produces prescription lenses for use with other VR headsets, and they cost around $70.
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I wonder if they’ll offer standard non-prescription reading glasses style magnifier lenses? Nothing fancy, just $1.5X - $3.5X magnifiers with high quality lenses. A large number of 40-ish and older folks have presbyopia and later in life,or due to other vision complications, far field corrected monovision as a result of cataract surgery. Cataract surgery is one of the most, if not the single most, common outpatient surgeries performed in the US.
vroptician.com is not Zeiss, but a German private company that specialized in dispensing lenses for various VR goggles. Every optician with an agreement to sell Zeiss ophthalmic lenses can buy them from Zeiss and cut them into the desired shape, that doesn't make Zeiss "the producer". According to the Vision Pro announcement, this is different here since it's an official, direct and exclusive co-op between Apple and Zeiss.
I wear contact lenses. Will they work with Vision or must I purchase prescription lenses?
Anyone know something about this?
I wonder if I'll be able to get VSP to pay for part of them? /s