Apple always amazes us with its products that work to provide future experiences for users using smart and virtual technologies in addition to various interactive experiences, and in the same vein went its latest product, the virtual reality glasses (Vision Pro), which it launched earlier this month of February.
Apple’s launch of its new product (Vision Pro) contributed to raising controversy regarding its capabilities, in addition to the cost of purchasing it, which is considered high in light of the current economic conditions that the world is going through.
A photo of workers at Apple headquarters in Los Angeles, California, on the first day of the launch of the Apple Vision Pro (Getty)
Apple always promises its users when it launches any new product, from the iPhone to the Apple Watch, that it will allow users to use screens of different sizes to change the way they interact with the world.
Vision Pro has the ability to do this in a more eye-catching way, but the obstacle remains that the product serves a specific segment of consumers, especially since the price of the product exceeds three thousand dollars.
Record sales of pre-orders
For his part, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo explained that pre-order sales for the glasses ranged between 160,000 and 180,000 glasses.
Users testing the initial version of Apple Vision Pro (Getty)
He pointed out that Apple’s orders usually double after pre-order shipments run out, but Vision Pro orders violated that rule, while Morgan Stanley expected Apple to ship about 400,000 units of Vision Pro during this year.
Apple Vision Pro specifications
The glasses are equipped with two Micro-OLED screens capable of merging about 23 million pixels to provide the best possible vision. The glasses are also powered by the Apple M-2 processor to provide the strongest possible performance, which is the processor that Apple relies on in its Macs and iPads.
Apple has equipped its glasses with virtual reality and augmented virtual reality technologies, and it also works with a new processor called R-1 to process data received from cameras and sensors.
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The Apple Vision Pro glasses come equipped with five sensors and six microphones, in addition to 12 cameras facing inward and outward. Apple has also announced that the R-1 processor is capable of broadcasting images to the screen within 12 milliseconds, that is, eight times faster than blinking an eye.
A photo of a user trying on the glasses
The glasses come with a battery capable of operating for two continuous hours, with the ability to use the glasses throughout the day when connected to the charger.
Comment by Sam Altman
The launch of the Apple Vision Pro did not go unnoticed by one of the biggest players in the technology sector, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, as he tweeted on his official page on the social media platform X – formerly Twitter – that Apple’s new product is the most prominent since the production of iPhone phones.
vision pro is second most impressive tech since the iphone
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 9, 2024
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A product of luxury
In a related context, YouTuber and entrepreneur Youssef Al-Lawandi explained that the Vision Pro works as an interactive screen with any Apple device such as the iPhone, Mac computers, and Mac Pro, pointing out that the screen is expected to cause a breakthrough in the world of electronic devices, especially given the reactions of its users so far. Positive.
Users testing the initial version of Apple Vision Pro (Getty)
He confirmed in his interview with “CNN Al-Eqtisadiah” that according to users, all applications compatible with the glasses, which number about 900 applications, work efficiently, indicating that a number of application developers – most notably Spotify and YouTube – decided not to be compatible with the latest Apple devices in an attempt to obtain a percentage. Higher than sales or stock, he said.
Al-Lawandi believed that Apple decided not to increase the shares of developers or their percentage of sales until (Vision Pro) achieves sufficient success that allows the percentage of developers to increase, especially since the product is currently considered a luxury product in light of its total price, which includes the price of the screen in addition to the bag. Its price is about $3,700.
