Apple’s next Vision headset might ship from the factory with custom lenses

Mark Gurman write in your Switched on Newsletter for Bloomberg today that a future Apple virtual reality headset could be smaller and lighter, and each unit could be shipped customized from the factory for the visually impaired. With the first-generation Vision Pro, the company’s solution for eyeglass wearers is to stock optional lenses made by Zeiss in its retail stores, which creates its own problems with supply management and turns your electronics store into a supplier of health.

The article points out how complicated it could be to link a product to a custom display, given that prescriptions can change over time, and how it would limit the ability to share the headphones or resell them.

But Apple has almost certainly already thought about this and filed patents like recently in august which show that you are interested in creating a VR or AR display that can be adjusted to correct someone’s vision. Doing something like this would prevent the company from adding a new barrier to entry to a product that is probably already too expensive. And it could be good for customers who don’t even realize they have poor vision when they buy a new VR headset.