Glasses-wearers could be priced out of the Apple Vision Pro, if new rumors about its vision-correcting lenses are true.
The Apple Vision Pro’s price tag was met with audible gasps at WWDC 2023, but that $3,499 figure could go up significantly if you typically wear glasses.
We already knew that Apple would be selling its “vision correction accessories” for its Vision Pro headset separately, but now some speculation from Apple commentator Mark Gurman has hinted at exactly how much those Zeiss lenses could cost.
In the post-WWDC Tweet below, Gurman says that he estimates that Zeiss prescription lenses for the Apple Vision Pro “will be at least $300-600 a pair”. That is, “unless Apple is eating part of the cost” within the headset’s $3,499 price, which converts to around £2,815 / AU$5,290.
Apple hasn’t dropped any hints about the price of these inserts, which attach magnetically to the headset’s own lenses, so this is just speculation. But the rumored pricing falls in line with the standalone cost of thin prescription lenses made by Zeiss, so it’s certainly a potential cost barrier for those who wear traditional vision-correcting glasses.
