How Apple’s Vision Pro Works With Prescription Glasses – SlashGear

There are a few caveats that are worth bearing in mind — and questions that Apple is yet to answer. Something users with less-than-perfect eyesight will have to remember is that the ZEISS Optical Inserts for the Vision Pro will be sold separately, rather than bundled with the cost of the headset itself. Apple hasn’t said exactly how much that’ll cost yet, but it looks like an unavoidable expense — on top of the already eye-wateringly expensive headset itself — since wearing Vision Pro while also wearing regular eyeglasses is a non-starter. 

The other question is whether there’ll be inserts for every vision correction out there. Given Apple and ZEISS are effectively making a set of eyeglasses, just without the frame to hold them together, it seems likely that the inserts will be able to correct regular distance vision and near vision, along with astigmatism. Still, anybody with particularly unusual corrective lens requirements may want to wait to see if their issues are on the list of those Vision Pro Optical Inserts can fix. 

What’s admirable, at least, is that Apple is addressing corrective vision from day one. Arguably one of the (many) reasons that Google Glass failed, for instance, was Google’s tardiness to offer prescription lenses until long after it began selling the headsets. Considering those who already wear prescription glasses are an obvious audience to court with smart glasses technology, getting them onboard from the outset seems a common-sense strategy.