Awesome review keep it up as always Ben's brother

your reasoning and explanation is legit.

Great review man!!! Touched on all the aspects I was looking to know more about. It is definitely expensive but I fully agree with you that talking about it being overpriced when there's nothing similar to compare it with at the moment is going a bit too far; given the "apple tax" on their products I have no doubt we'll believe this was overpriced a few years from now 😂, but it's just too early to say that for sure. Again, was a really insightful review and I enjoyed it.

Maybe try the quest 3 that is 7 times cheaper. It's the "same" software and hardware. The difference is that the q3 has more features, better lenses. The AVP only has better resolution and a better processor, that's it. What other headsets did you use?

Ben I have to disagree with you on the point about income, saying this isn't expensive. The average annual income worldwide is roughly $7000 if we are being generous. That's $583 per month. Again, that's a generous estimate. In some countries the annual income is $380 - ANNUAL.... So in a world where the majority of earth's population are earning $7000 a year, $3500 represents 6 months income. That is CRAZY EXPENSIVE. You have to take into account the global average because if you are selling a product the assumption is that you ideally want everyone to buy it. Hence when determining pricing you need to look at the worldwide situation. Otherwise you should specifically label your product as "luxury item" to let everyone know this is only aimed at the rich. Hence it is legitimate for people to criticise it as expensive,even if some people you know can afford it. But take it closer to home - in the US homelessness is rampant, the average family is struggling to feed their families, many are on the poverty line despite both parents working. Even in the US this is considered expensive for most people. I live in the EU and this is very expensive. It's about 3-4 months wages (!) in my country. That's expensive no matter which way you slice it.

Nice review! It's pretty cool for 3D movies and a good alternative to home theater in general. But for my expected usage time, and especially the few times I watch movies alone, it's far too expensive and too heavy. If I were to use the device for 5 hours a day, things would look different. But I don't see that at the moment.

i tried it at the apple store...and I do use meta quest 3 at home a lot. I do think vision pro is overpriced. what it can do is limited and not essential so it doesn't worth the price at all for me. I can use this $3500 for other things... but of course, if people have tons of money, nothing wrong to purchase this for fun.

seriously guys stop being so annoying about the price subject he gave his opinion, we understand you guys have diverging opinions, that's all. this is APPLE and a first gen product that as he said has NO COMPETITORS right now on the market, so you can say whatever you want, if there are people to buy it, experience it, then that's good, there surely will be competitors if this works and if people are willing to spend money on this new tech thanks for this review, this is indeed a completly amazing new tech, and with AI, we are indeed in a completly new era of technology with amazing new things that will just keep getting released

Been waiting for a real review and not a “UKpostsr” take

Hardware is fantastic, it surely need some tweaks (comfort, weight, integrated battery + external current one for hotswap...) but consodering the novelty is not overpriced at all. Sadly it needs vast improvements in the software side of things (peripherals, multiple screens, demo mode...) We have some amazing tech years ahead of us

You said what I was thinking

Not available in London yet😰 £4000.00

Ultimately you post it

varjo xr4 is the only similar headset ...it's not out yet it's higher resolution but it's more expensive and Vpro is better in many other ways

You are talking sense about the weight and cost reduce by design! About the overpriced thing, I don't know why people are so sensitive about it. First, with Apple, price is a feature, I thought people already knew that and second, yes as of now there is no comparison for it. There are other similar items but with this display quality (Sony) and see thru option, OS, etc, no comparison. Disclosure,I am absolutely not an Apple fan, quite the opposite. BTW, there are some TVs cost much more than this and no matter how amazing the resolution or whatever is on them, they are just TVs. For some people, it is worth to buy a 5k TV instead of a 500 USD TV. Are those overpriced?

Calling out those who call out the 3500$ price is absurd 😀 stay away from complaining about that, unless you want to sound really out of touch with regular people 🤔 outside of that, the review is solid

Obviously incomes range from $0 to a gazillion dollars but $3,500 is a lot of money in virtually every country for the average person. So we're already talking about a luxury product that's not a practical enterprise solution. I mean maybe the word absurd is a little judgmental, but I don't think it's unfair to say that the price is shockingly high. There's no one to one comparison, but there's certainly products that can be compared to it.

90% of the comments on reviewers videos of the AVP are people that haven't tested it yet but can't afford it saying "it's absurdly priced and a waste of money"

People just love to hate Apple, yet every company copies their roadmap.

It’s over the price I can afford but not necessarily overpriced.

It can be worthy but I know a guy who spend that amount in a flight ticket to latinoamerica and a 360 camera and he keep visiting stunning places and recording for make a virtual tour experience and become his own boss ; all this with the money of one of it.

there is a browser app now that is pinned to u ...u don't have to hold it to walk around with it ....just saying still not practical to use it outside

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I agree with some of your points, but you can absolutely say $3500 is objectively a lot of money and overpriced for a VR headset with low horizontal FOV, little to nothing to do on it, and some beautifully sharp micro OLEDs. There is really nothing so groundbreakingly new that you can say there's nothing else to compare it to. Still looks like an amazing piece of hardware and I'd love to try one. Coming from a VR enthusiast

I'm not surprised and I agree. This product for a very specific class of user. It's like the 70k Mac pro. Insane price but it's just expensive, not overpriced

HEY BEN'S GADGET NOBODY WANT TO SEE VISION PRO. WE WANT THE XIAOMI ULTRA 14 VIDEO GET TO IT PERIOD

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Yeah, Apple the price is always good. Buy a psv2 vr instead. Or give credits to Hololens or google glasses, which didn't succeed. But people buy everything.

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I believe you should never say worth every penny, if see the teardown video you'll know what i mean. People who are eager to buy, i suggest you wait there will be cheaper alternatives coming and besides when apple releases second gen the first gen price will go down.

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Thanks for the review Ben. One minute you say people shouldn't complain about the price because it's relative and the next minute you say it should be cheaper. Anyways, however rich one might be, there is something being over priced. If right now one can only consume media and a few user cases surely $3500 is way too high. For now the Vision pro is just a novelty.

You had the opportunity to return it and you didn't...

Sir please give me a Xiaomi 14 ultra

I think we can say something is overpriced using just common sense. If it's expensive in United States market will probably be expensive world wide. But totally agree you're a not a Apple fan, much more Independent that most of American reviews, BTW.

I get your point about them not being 'overpriced' but given that they are only V.1 and, as you say, there isn't yet very much developed for them, they're are definitely a luxury item for the time being. I could afford a set but there's no way I could justify to myself spending that - and even more to my mrs! - even though I'd love to try them. But I think the novelty of them would wear thin pretty quickly. Great review as ever though Ben.

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Long term fan, but this makes me doubt. Maybe it's worth what you paid for it. I would not be seen dead with this monstrosity even if they paid me to wear it.

10-15 min for 3500$. Ridiculous. I don't need something "with the same hardware and software level" to compare to to know it's overpriced for what it is.

2 hours of 😂😂😂😂 battery life not even a folding iPhone 😪

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Dude, the first two minutes of the video should precede every single review, istg. Its asinine how ppl only want to hear things that are valid for their own circumstances. Brilliant use cases highlighted, looking forward to getting one if they ever release 'em in EU.

Guess what? $900 IS a lot of money, regardless of how out of touch you are.

You must be out of your mind buying this or just a fanboy buying everything with the Apple logo on it.

It is ridiculously priced, and it is dumb for anyone to buy it.

of cos people can say it's overpricing. it's not the only VR headset on the market. of cos you can say it's not a normal headset it's apple product. the same argument can place on any product on the earth and overpricing should be remove from dictionary. S24 Ultra isn't a ;normal smartphone, it's Samsung, it have S-pen and Dex you can't find on any other smartphone. That is how stupid it sounds.

And just like the overpriced movie teather soda, its tastes bad compared soda from a grocery store glass bottle😂.Im sorry Ben but your comparsion was garbage and the product IS over priced! All you talked about that its really good for looking at old videos and photos! And apparently it is too heavy for doing those things😂