Free Engraving Available With Apple Vision Pro ZEISS Lens Inserts

[MacRumors]

The optional ZEISS lens inserts designed for Apple's Vision Pro headset can be engraved at no additional cost.

Custom wording of the customer's choice can be engraved into the black plastic sides of the optional ZEISS lens inserts designed for those who normally wear glasses or contact lenses. The option is probably intended to help multiple users identify which lens inserts belong to them, rather than be a novel way to personalize the device, since they are very small and there is no other engraving option for the Vision Pro.

Apple offers two versions of the ZEISS Optical Inserts at different price points. "ZEISS Optical Inserts — Readers" are available for $99, while "ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription" are available for $149. The inserts attach to the Vision Pro lenses magnetically, allowing for precise viewing and eye tracking. Purchase requires a valid prescription from an optician.

Pre-orders of the Vision Pro started earlier today and the device goes on sale in the United States on Friday, February 2.


Article Link: Free Engraving Available With Apple Vision Pro ZEISS Lens Inserts

 

[KPOM]

This is consistent with other Apple products that offer engraving.

 

[fwmireault]

Free*? How generous of them!!


*Starting at $3598 US

 

[CharlesShaw]

Engraving makes perfect sense for multiple users with different prescriptions sharing one device, yes.

If the optics of the inserts are the same as your regular prescription and the inserts all the same physical size, then I could see someone designing a pair of nerdy frames to use them as eyeglasses when not in the AVP. ☺️

[That’s just a think piece, as the inserts likely don’t have the desirable coatings and properties of lenses designed for eyeglasses.]

 

[jo-1]

Free*? How generous of them!!

not really - the used price for engraved items is plummeting - or would you like to by a device with a different name or an (un) intentionally funny comment engraved?

I'd personally seldomly buy 2nd hand gear but in case there is the slightest used look or engraved things I'd not buy it at any given price

 

[emulator]

Engraving only benefits Apple, as usual.

 

[erikkfi]

You can engrave “I’M RICH” on your inserts and get a second reminder when putting on your AVP.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Engraving makes perfect sense for multiple users with different prescriptions sharing one device, yes.

If the optics of the inserts are the same as your regular prescription and the inserts all the same physical size, then I could see someone designing a pair of nerdy frames to use them as eyeglasses when not in the AVP. ☺️

If there's not something odd about their size or shape and/or they are relatively easy to swap back & forth, I think you have a real entrepreneurial opportunity right there... with such frames in 10,000 color choices being on Alibaba in about 13 minutes or so... then Ebay in about 26 minutes.

I haven't got to see this part of things but I speculate they won't be traditionally-shaped for stand-alone glasses. Why? Because in demo movies, there are many examples of rotating the dial to become fully "immersed"... meaning even the most extreme periphery has substituted imagery. Can that be accomplished with traditionally flat/barely curved lenses... or does that require a bit of what is known as "fisheye"-like lenses? I have NO idea but we'll all learn such details soon.

While I have 20:20 eyes, I wear sunglasses. The normal lenses cover most of my range of vision. But out around the edges I see the world beyond the lenses. How would Vpro make the prescription lens feature work so that even the edges has substituted imagery without making the lens perhaps bend or curve into that full range too? Again, I have no idea... but it makes me imagine these won't be typical lenses.

As a bit of an experiment, I put on those glasses and got within about 2 inches of my 82" 4K TV screen. Picture "filled" well beyond the lenses. But still, my peripheral vision at the extremes could see stuff NOT on the screen. The demos imply ALL of the real world could be washed away by turning the dial. Give this demo a watch and pay attention to what it implies will be possible when that dial is rotated...

I'm not sure how that works with traditional lens shapes. Maybe it doesn't work (marketing trickery is not exactly rare)? Maybe the demo isn't actually possible to that level? Maybe those using lenses won't quite get that level of immersion? TBD... soon.

 

[CharlesShaw]

If there's not something odd about their size or shape and/or they are relatively easy to swap back & forth, I think you have a real entrepreneurial opportunity right there... with such frames in 10,000 color choices being on Alibaba in about 13 minutes or so... then Ebay in about 26 minutes.

Haha, Apple could overhaul the eyewear system, since one company [Luxottica] currently owns most of the industry.

 

[Bigkool2inSC]

put this in the same category as flying cars.
great technology, ahead of it's time. world is not ready for it.

 

[jimbobb24]

You dont need a prescription for the readers. Or I didnt when I checked out. And it didnt give me an option for engraving that I could see...

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

put this in the same category as flying cars.
great technology, ahead of it's time. world is not ready for it.

Bring on that flying car. I sat in a traffic jam for almost 1.5 hours just yesterday. It would be nice to rise above a 2D plane into a much less congested lane (among countless others). Bonus: no potholes.

Of course "sky rage" brings Snoopy vs. the Baron to mind... but we already have hostile road raiders at war... so bring on that Baron or Beagle.

And cue up that song too.

 

[ourguile]

I did go ahead and personalize mine, yes but I can’t see the reason for this. If someone has their own prescription Zeiss Apple Vision lenses, wouldn’t they have their own Apple Vision as well? I can’t, for example, see myself carrying around (unsecured) my lenses and swapping them into a friend’s device.

Unless is the purpose to engrave “readers” on one pair and “Rx” on the other?

 

[DrMorrisOD]

Purchase requires a valid prescription from an optician.

Purchase requires a valid prescription from an optometrist or ophthalmologist. Opticians adjust and dispense glasses in the US, but do not write prescriptions. As an OD, I had many questions about the optical requirements for the Vision Pro, glad to be getting some details.

 

[Supercyborgninja]

Could it be to engrave left - right on them?

 

[ourguile]

Could it be to engrave left - right on them?

When I placed my order I wasn’t given the option to engrave individual lenses, just one text field.

I’d have to guess because they magnetically attach they would only be able to attach to the correct side (right to right, etc).

 

[bearda]

I did go ahead and personalize mine, yes but I can’t see the reason for this. If someone has their own prescription Zeiss Apple Vision lenses, wouldn’t they have their own Apple Vision as well? I can’t, for example, see myself carrying around (unsecured) my lenses and swapping them into a friend’s device.

Unless is the purpose to engrave “readers” on one pair and “Rx” on the other?

I could see buying a pair of lenses each for my wife and I and engraving them to keep them straight. I definitely wouldn't be buying a device for each of us, though.

 

[DrMorrisOD]

The lenses appear asymmetrical so I assume the right and left lens won't fit into the wrong side or orientation. My order now says

ZEISS has reviewed and verified your prescription.​

 

[klasma]

Won’t that impair the clarity of vision?

 

[DrMorrisOD]

Won’t that impair the clarity of vision?

No, most glasses prescriptions are asymmetrical (different Rx right and left eye) and have different shapes as well

 

[QuietGamer]

My Q is do you need the insets if you are near sighted?

I wear glasses and am near sighted. Since the displays are close to the eye then would a near sighted person even need the inserts?

Guess I will need to try it in store and see how it goes...

That being said I will wait for the 2nd or 3rd gen anyway.

 

[joeblough]

Purchase requires a valid prescription from an optometrist or ophthalmologist. Opticians adjust and dispense glasses in the US, but do not write prescriptions. As an OD, I had many questions about the optical requirements for the Vision Pro, glad to be getting some details.

you might then know the answer to this question. i'm mildly myopic with -1.25 in each eye. when corrected, i'm presbyopic but without glasses i can see near just fine (up to about 2 feet) due to the myopia.

does this mean i can use the AVP without any lenses or w/o contact lenses? i assume that because the displays are inches from the eye that i will be able to focus on them, even if my brain thinks objects are far in the distance...

 

[Makosuke]

you might then know the answer to this question. i'm mildly myopic with -1.25 in each eye. when corrected, i'm presbyopic but without glasses i can see near just fine (up to about 2 feet) due to the myopia.

does this mean i can use the AVP without any lenses or w/o contact lenses? i assume that because the displays are inches from the eye that i will be able to focus on them, even if my brain thinks objects are far in the distance...

No, that will NOT work. I don’t know the nuances of the Vision Pro itself, but almost no one can focus an eye an inch from their face (and your brain would be very confused if you could), so all VR headsets have lenses in them to make the focal distance of the screens MUCH farther than they are physically. I think it’s generally around 2m away to let the eyes relax, but could be closer or farther depending on the model. But that means that if you can’t see at that distance, everything will be blurry. This includes virtual objects that are closer.

The Vision Pro’s optical inserts compensate for this; other VR headsets use your own glasses, but you can’t see anything if you’re nearsighted and take them off.

A funny side effect, I assume, is that if you are farsighted that will probably be “cured” while wearing the Vision Pro, since even objects that are “closer” in terms of parallax will still be farther away as far as your eyeball focal distance, so will be sharp.

I’ll note as an aside that I’ve read that the disagreement between the focal distance of your eyeballs and the parallax focal distance is apparently why some people are much more prone to motion sickness than others with VR and other 3D technologies.

 

[Makosuke]

I guess engraving is somewhat useful in a multi-user household, so why not.

Having just woken up at 5am to pre-order one only to discover that Zeiss won’t make a prescription lens with prism, though, I’m not a real big Zeiss fan right now.

 

[joeblough]

No, that will NOT work. I don’t know the nuances of the Vision Pro itself, but almost no one can focus an eye an inch from their face (and your brain would be very confused if you could), so all VR headsets have lenses in them to make the focal distance of the screens MUCH farther than they are physically. I think it’s generally around 2m away to let the eyes relax, but could be closer or farther depending on the model. But that means that if you can’t see at that distance, everything will be blurry. This includes virtual objects that are closer.

yah that makes perfect sense. it's obvious if you just hold your finger in front of your face that you can't focus that close, so some kind of built in lens is required. not that i'm going to buy one of these things but good to know that i will need the corrective lenses.