Apple’s Vision Pro is a very nice piece of kit, but the $3,400 price means that even CEO Tim Cook has acknowledged it’s a niche product, and the 600g plus weight also means many find it uncomfortable to wear for longer than an hour.
Chinese brand Vivo has attempted to address both issues in a design which looks remarkably like a direct copy of Apple’s spatial computer …
Vision Pro price and comfort
Price and comfort have been the two biggest complaints people have made about Vision Pro.
Cook last year effectively acknowledged that it was not a product many people were going to buy at its current price by describing it as “tomorrow’s technology today.”
Those who did splash out on one have frequently complained that it feels too hot and too heavy when worn for more than thirty to sixty minutes at a time. That was certainly my own experience when I tried one.
Vivo Vision
Vivo has today unveiled what it calls the discovery edition of the Vivo Vision, a very close copy of Vision Pro.
Not only does the device bear a striking physical resemblance to Apple’s headset, but it also appears to replicate much of the user interface and hi-res graphics.
Vivo Vision Discovery Edition runs on OriginOS Vision, which enables natural and intuitive interactions. The information appears seamlessly in the surrounding space, allowing users to shift from traditional “tap-through-screen” interactions to “move-and-pinch” gestures.
With 1.5° high-precision eye-tracking, 26 degrees of freedom in fingertip gesture recognition, and a vertical tracking range of 175°, users can enjoy intuitive and responsive controls.
Additionally, its Dual Micro-OLED screens deliver 8K binocular resolution, 94% DCI-P3 color coverage, and DeltaE<2 color accuracy, producing visuals comparable to professional cinema monitors
The company also makes a thinly-veiled dig at the size and weight of Vision Pro.
Weighing just 398g with a height of 83 mm and a thickness of 40 mm, it is 26% smaller than the industry average, improving overall comfort.
The company hasn’t officially named a price for the device, but Gizmochina reports that company executives have hinted it will be around 10,000 yuan ($1,400).
It’s not real competition
What VivoVision lacks, of course, is its position in the Apple ecosystem.
It also appears that it may be sold only in China. The company says that there will be demo sessions available from 12 authorized stores across major Chinese cities and that they want people to try it before buying.
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