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> Q: What if I wear glasses?

> A: The Vision Pro wasn’t designed to be worn with glasses. Instead you have to order prescription Zeiss optical inserts for $99. The two monocle-looking pieces snap right into place.

It's $99 for readers (non-prescription) and $149 for a prescription. Very odd that she would have gotten that detail wrong since it's so easy to check and it's been repeated so often in coverage of the AVP.

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Not to excuse that mistake but FWIW there are third party manufacturers which sell prescription lenses for various headsets for as little as $50, so there will probably be cheaper options once they start making them for the Vision Pro. The cost to actually manufacture the lenses depends on the strength of the prescription, and most VR lens manufacturers reflect that in their pricing, but Apple appears to be charging everyone the worst-case price and pocketing the difference when you order a weaker prescription.

Also, you might be able to take your previous pair of glasses, remove the lenses and grind until they fit. I did something similar to make my own prescription sunglasses (glued in the lenses).

I await the day that Apple adds authentication chips to lenses and locks out 3rd parties.

Basically it wouldn't be them to pass up a accessory sell opportunity.

Looks around desk at non-Apple monitor, keyboard, mouse, USB hub, and cables

Yeah, uh, they definitely always do that. It "wouldn't be them" to ever not.

(Hell, the monitor even supports True Tone—and it didn't at first, that arrived in an OS update, from Apple)

You know there's already a QR code-based way of authenticating your lenses?

Sounded in Gruber's review like they have something that sort of incidentally does that https://arc.net/l/quote/wgcwgxod

Can you use Vision Pro with contact lenses?

Sounds like only if you don't also need readers for close focus.

Depends on your prescription and if they're cosmetic/colored. If you go through the purchase flow it'll tell you if yours work.

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