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Apple Vision Pro reviews roundup: stunning potential with big trade-offs
Early reviews of cutting-edge headset suggest it is packed with sci-fi tech and interesting ideas but is far from perfect
Jan 30, 2024, The Guardian
The first reviews of Apple’s Vision Pro headset, from publications with early access to the company’s attempt to create the next computing platform, talk of a big leap forward for face-mounted computers, for better or worse.
But at a cost of $3,499 (about £2,760) in the US it has a lot of work to do to convince consumers and developers alike that it can be anything other than a super-expensive niche toy for tech enthusiasts.
The Verge’s Nilay Patel called the Vision Pro an “astounding product” but one with a lot of big trade-offs, including messing up your hair each time you put it on:
“Apple is very proud of the displays inside the Vision Pro, and for good reason – they represent a huge leap forward in display technology,” he wrote. “They also look generally incredible – sharp enough to read text on without even thinking about it, bright enough to do justice to movies. Apple calibrates them for colour at the factory so they are also vibrant and colour-accurate without looking oversaturated or blown out. They are so small, but they work so well that they seem huge.”
But he said that while the passthrough view of the real world is the very best yet, “the field of view isn’t huge, and the essential nature of looking at tiny displays through lenses makes that field of view feel even smaller. Apple won’t tell me the exact number, but the Vision Pro’s field of view is certainly smaller than the Quest 3’s 110 horizontal degrees. That means there are fairly large black borders around what you’re seeing, a bit like you’re looking through binoculars.”
