- VisionAR Insights
- Posts
- 🚀 Apple Vision Pro Drops This Week – The Future of Computing or a $3,500 Flex?
🚀 Apple Vision Pro Drops This Week – The Future of Computing or a $3,500 Flex?
Automate Prospecting Local Businesses With Our AI BDR
Struggling to identify local prospects? Our AI BDR Ava taps into a database of 200M+ local Google businesses and does fully autonomous outreach—so you can focus on closing deals, not chasing leads.
Ava operates within the Artisan platform, which consolidates every tool you need for outbound:
300M+ High-Quality B2B Prospects
Automated Lead Enrichment With 10+ Data Sources Included
Full Email Deliverability Management
Personalization Waterfall using LinkedIn, Twitter, Web Scraping & More
Reading Time: 1 min and 20 sec
🚀 Apple Vision Pro Drops This Week – The Future of Computing or a $3,500 Flex?
Hey nerds (and future cyborgs),
Apple’s Vision Pro is finally launching this Friday, Feb 2. This is Apple’s first new product category since the Apple Watch, and they’re calling it “spatial computing” instead of AR/VR (because branding).
So... is this thing going to change the world? Or is it just a fancy ski mask for rich people? 🥽💰
Let’s break it down 👇

🥽 What’s So Special About Apple Vision Pro?
This isn’t just another VR headset. Apple’s treating it like the next iPhone moment—but for your face. Here’s what makes it different:
🔹 No controllers – You navigate with just your eyes, hands, and voice. No clunky remotes, just Jedi mind tricks.
🔹 Augmented reality > Virtual reality – Unlike the Quest 3, Vision Pro is mostly AR, meaning it blends digital screens into your real world instead of fully taking you into the Matrix.
🔹 Insane display quality – Each eye gets a 4K micro-OLED screen (translation: your eyeballs will be very happy).
🔹 Apple ecosystem on your face – It runs visionOS, meaning you get a floating Mac screen, FaceTime holograms, and seamless Apple app integration.
It’s basically an iPad you wear on your head—except it costs 7x more than an iPad Pro.
💰 The $3,500 Question: Who Is This Even For?
At this price, Apple isn’t targeting gamers or casual users. The real buyers?
✅ Apple superfans – The same people who buy every iPhone upgrade, even when it’s just a new color.
✅ Developers & tech nerds – Gotta start building that spatial app ecosystem somehow.
✅ Wealthy dads who love gadgets – The same crowd that owns a Tesla, a drone, and too many smart home devices.
✅ Corporate execs & productivity junkies – Who needs monitors when you can have infinite floating screens?
Basically, this isn’t the iPhone moment… yet. It’s the Apple Watch (Gen 1) moment—expensive, kinda limited, but a glimpse into the future.
🔮 Will This Change AR/VR Forever?
The hype is real, but so are the challenges:
❌ Bulky & heavy – Testers say wearing it for hours feels like a mini workout 🏋️♂️
❌ No killer app (yet) – There’s no must-have use case outside of floating Mac screens and movie watching 🍿
❌ Super expensive – You could buy 3 Quest 3s + a PlayStation 5 + a weekend trip to Vegas for the same price.
BUT… this is Apple. If anyone can take nerdy tech and turn it into a cultural phenomenon, it’s them.
🏆 Hot Take: Apple Just Made AR/VR Cool Again
Most people won’t buy Vision Pro this year. But what Apple has done is make AR/VR exciting again.
🔥 Every other company (Meta, Samsung, Google) is now scrambling to catch up.
🔥 Developers are actually interested in building for AR now.
🔥 In 3-5 years, when the price drops and the headset gets lighter… this could be huge.
Right now, Vision Pro is like the first iPhone—too expensive, kinda clunky, but the start of something big.
🤣 Meme of the Week
"Why don’t Vision Pro users need friends?"
"Because they can just FaceTime their 3D holograms instead!" 😂
So, would you buy the Vision Pro? Or are you waiting for Vision Pro 2: Lighter, Cheaper, and Actually Practical Edition?
Reply and let me know. Or just blink twice if you’re already in the Apple ecosystem and have no choice. 👀