Free Engraving Available With Apple Vision Pro ZEISS Lens Inserts

Free*? How generous of them!!


*Starting at $3598 US

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

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. ☺️

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.

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.

Engraving only benefits Apple, as usual.