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Designed for work use, the Immersed Visor is one-third of the price and 70% lighter than the Apple Vision Pro. There's no app store or gaming but it works with Windows, Mac and Linux.
If like us you're excited about mixed reality but balk at the high price of the Apple Vision Pro, the new Immersed Visor could be just what you've been waiting for. Not only is it less than one-third of the price of the Vision Pro, but you can also get it for a third of that price if you buy it on a subscription deal.
Immersed isn't a household name but the US firm makes VR and mixed reality for other tech firms' headsets. And now it's making its own hardware. It's a visor rather than a headset – think ski goggles rather than a Meta Quest 3 – and gives each eye the equivalent of a 4K OLED display. There's hand tracking, eye tracking and up to five virtual screens in virtual or mixed reality.
Immersed Visor: key specs and pricing
The Immersed Visor is powered by the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 processor and weighs a very light 186g, making it slightly lighter than the iPhone 16 Pro, 64% lighter than the Meta Quest 3 and 70% lighter than the Vision Pro.
That's important because as Engadget reports, this isn't aimed at consumers: it's designed to be a work device and that means long wear times. Because it's not aimed at home users there's no app store and there are no games. It's made for your computer, whether that's a Windows, Mac or Linux one.
Price-wise you're looking at $1,050 (about £790) up-front, or $400 (about £300) if you're willing to wait for the soon-to-be-launched subscription version. That's $40 (about £30) per month for two years.
It looks fascinating, but it's important to note that so far all we have to go on is the impressive presentation embedded above – and that means a healthy dose of cynicism is wise. Remember the Magic Leap demos that looked too good to be true because they really were too good to be true? Here's hoping what we're seeing here is a bit more realistic.
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Writer, musician and broadcaster Carrie Marshall has been covering technology since 1998 and is particularly interested in how tech can help us live our best lives. Her CV is a who’s who of magazines, newspapers, websites and radio programmes ranging from T3, Techradar and MacFormat to the BBC, Sunday Post and People’s Friend. Carrie has written more than a dozen books, ghost-wrote two more and co-wrote seven more books and a Radio 2 documentary series; her memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was shortlisted for the British Book Awards. When she’s not scribbling, Carrie is the singer in Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind (unquietmindmusic).
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