Wearing Apple Vision Pro and glasses together effective, but risky

Despite Apple's insistence that I not be allowed to wear AppleVisionPro, while wearing my prescription eyeglasses, but I would like to know if I can wear them as a way to determine if I should.

Corrective lenses will be worn throughout their lives, with estimates reaching into the hundreds of millions in the U.S. and up to billions globally. For a long time, I've been a glasses wearer, and when I purchased the first version of the Oculus Rift Development Kit (Oculus Rift DK1) in 2013, it was based on the only option available in terms of consumer-grade VR hardware. That head-mounted display came with three sets of interchangeable aspheric lenses that offered varying degrees of vision correction.

Personally, I find that the "C" lenses of the Rivet DK1 give me a relatively clear field of view, although putting the "A" lenses in a headset with my own prescription glasses works best. Of course, I sacrifice some field of view due to the distance from my eyes to the screen, but I've been dealing with a limited field of view in the real world since I got my first pair of prescription glasses at age 6.

As consumer headgear has evolved, the option of interchangeable lenses has disappeared. This left my only option to wear my own prescription glasses across the metaverse. I've even purchased smaller Harry Potter style eyeglass frames to better accommodate the fit of my headgear.

多年来，我的经验是各种头戴设备各有不同。像奥克拉斯Go和最初的PSVR这样的设备似乎专门设计来容纳各种形状和尺寸的眼镜，因为它们的眼睛面部空间相对较大。有两次，我配戴的眼镜由于紧贴和两组镜片之间的摩擦而划伤了镜片。

So far I've never scratched the lenses of my headgear, but I've wasted too much time on wiping them down. My prescription glasses need to be cleaned after every VR experience because they are tight against my eyelashes.

现在已经是2024年，麦塔（MetaIt's now 2024, and both Meta and Amazon are members of the Vision Council, an organization that accounts for 90% of the number of people wearing prescription eyeglasses in the U.S. The organization estimates that as of 2023, 80% of adults in the U.S. (more than 200 million people) use some form of vision correction, including reading glasses, prescription eyeglasses, prescription sunglasses, or gel soft contact lenses. From a logical standpoint, any company that manufactures eye wear devices must accommodate the need to wear prescription eyeglasses or provide corrective lenses.

Several companies now offer options for corrective lens inserts for currently popular headgear. For example, Zenni Optical offers the MetaQuest 3 offers prescription lenses, a $50 solution for a headset that costs $500.

现在我们来说说苹果Vision Pro.

I was going to check out the inside of the head unit in the Apple store, but when I asked I was told not to use my own prescription glasses. My colleague Ian Hamilton was told the same thing in the trial he attended. However, when I was finally confronted with the Vision Pro on my own, without a warning glance from an Apple employee or anyone telling me to stop, I attempted to put on the headset with my own prescription glasses.

It seems to work when I wear them. While my current style of glasses fit perfectly, I was able to wear the headgear with my glasses close to my face and only a few millimeters between the lenses of the glasses and the lenses of the Vision Pro. I watched as the green outlines inside the Apple Vision Pro adjusted to my eyes with eye tracking settings. As with any other VR headset I wear, my field of view was reduced.

After I took off the headset and put the Vision Pro back on after wiping down my soiled glasses, I noticed that I had to tweak everything a little bit to get back to proper calibration. As with my experience with other headgear, while it's possible to use the Apple Vision Pro with my own glasses on, I didn't use the headgear long enough to see the effect of my glasses on Apple's eye-tracking distortion correction.

So why even try this?

The Apple Vision Pro isn't a few hundred dollar headset, it's a multi-thousand dollar headset. The risk of scratching the lenses of this expensive hardware increases tenfold when you stuff your own glasses in it. Apple's warranty states that it doesn't apply to "damage caused in violation of Apple's release guidelines," and the AppleCare+ warning won't fix any damage caused by "abnormal or improper use." Apple offers a two-year extended warranty for the Vision Pro, AppleCare+, for $499 as a supplement to the one-year limited warranty. Even if AppleCare+ covers such cases, repairs will still cost $299.

Zeiss' (ZEISS) corrective inserts start at $100, which is a reasonable option for your own equipment. You need to ask yourself if the risky option of wearing your own glasses is a wiser choice than paying $150 for a removable corrective insert.

Impressive new technology like Apple's Vision Pro is sparking a desire to offer it to friends and family for trial and error. You can't possibly expect to have a variety of different lens inserts to meet the corrective needs of all your glasses-wearing friends, although Apple recommends doing so here.

You might want to take off your own glasses and have Uncle Paul try to slip his John Lennon-style glasses into your Vision Pro. We don't recommend it, but we're curious to see what happens if someone returns to the Apple Store with scratched lenses from their Vision Pro.

source:uploadvr