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There's a calibration process that takes place after a set of Zeiss lenses are inserted and the code scanned. My concern is that this calibration process will likely not be triggered for any insert not made by Zeiss. It may not be a hard software lock, but it would suck if your AVP just didn't work as well just because you didn't buy from the people Apple wants you to buy from, even though it probably could anyway.
Ahh. That makes sense. I just watched the pairing video about them. I’m curious about how this works.
https://youtu.be/Xs5a9G6NynQ?si=KgY3Z54Di51aaQ2G
Here’s my guess. The circular QR code contains the prescription, and the lenses contain NFC. When a set of lenses attach, NFC tells the device to pair the prescription, lenses and device together.
Doing that would allow a future OS update to support multiple users accounts with multiple lenses. The Vision Pro would auto-switch to a different calibration when different household user’s lenses were dropped in.
If that’s the case, yeah, this might not be super friendly to other lens manufacturers. That said, given the price of lenses and frames I doubt anyone would be willing to sell these things for under $50. And if I’m going to blow 4 grand on a thing, I’ll probably just eat the extra 50-100 bucks. Heck, the cash back from my credit card would cover the lenses for a purchase this big.
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