Over its nearly 50-year history, Apple has ushered in many new categories of era-defining personal technology: the home computer; the mp3 player; the smartphone; the tablet. Today they are attempting to do something similar for the niche and oft-derided field of augmented reality, with the release of the Vision Pro. Apple hopes that the new headset, which ships on Feb. 2, will lead to a fundamental shift in the way that we engage with the internet: Not just on rectangular screens, but all around us.
So far, signals about the Vision Pro’s potential success have been mixed. Sales have proven stronger than some analysts expected: Apple has reportedly sold out of its initial stock of 200,000 headsets, confirming that Apple still has many diehard fans willing to take the $3,499 plunge on a new product. On the other hand, early reviewers have complained about neck and eye fatigue after just half an hour of usage.
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