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First Month With Apple Vision Pro

The revolution that didn’t happen

Jakub Jirak
Mac O’Clock
Published in
12 min readMar 2, 2024

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Enter an era where the lines between reality and the virtual world are becoming blurred, and imagine a device that promises to revolutionise how we experience technology, entertainment, and even our everyday work. Apple Vision Pro, the headset that was supposed to revolutionize personal entertainment and productivity devices, was on the cusp of a fundamental change. But the reality turned out to be a little more complicated than it first appeared. Although the product was received with expectations that crossed continents, its actual impact on the market and on users quickly became a topic of broader debate.

An opportunity to try Vision Pro?

While Apple’s Vision Pro headset is currently only sold in the US, users worldwide are showing interest, and China is no exception. Entrepreneurs there have seized the opportunity and started offering Vision Pro rentals to satisfy people’s desire to try out the product, which is currently only available in the US.

One of these rental companies boasts that it has already had more than ten thousand customers since its launch just days after the Vision Pro headset was launched. Beijing-based VR startup Vision Space operates several brick-and-mortar branches where interested parties can try the…

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Jakub Jirak
Mac O’Clock

Principal Software Engineer & Content creator | Writing about Technology, Apple, and Innovations. | Proud editor of Mac O'Clock.