Apple Vision Pro, the Cupertino large’s costly mixed-reality headset, was unveiled earlier this yr at WWDC 2023. While the headset has confronted hurdles and delays because it was first showcased, the Cupertino, California-based firm is lastly gearing up for the retail launch of the headset. Apple is reportedly scheduling Vision Pro coaching seminars for its retail staff in US shops forward of the headset’s deliberate launch in early 2024. Apple retail shops can even seemingly get new tools to assemble and bundle the Vision Pro quickly.
According to Mark Gurman’s Power On publication on Bloomberg, Apple is leaving no stone unturned with regards to the Vision Pro launch. The AR/VR headset is a posh and area of interest gadget that may seemingly require customised setup and changes for every consumer. To that finish, the iPhone maker is planning in-depth coaching classes for Apple Store staff, instructing them not solely the way to setup and function the high-end headset, but additionally the way to promote it to a possible buyer.
The firm has begun scheduling Vision Pro coaching seminars for its retail staff and the classes are set to kick off in the midst of January, Gurman claims in his publication. Each Apple Store worker will likely be skilled for two days, and the seminars would come with detailed steps for the Vision Pro’s retail expertise — together with the way to place the gadget on a consumer’s head.
According to the report, Apple shops within the US will quickly begin receiving specialised tools required to assemble and field up the Vision Pro, indicating that the headset will seemingly hit the cabinets quickly. And whereas it is attainable to order the gadget on-line, Apple will seemingly urge patrons to make their buy at a retail retailer, the place they’ll get detailed directions on setup and operation from a skilled worker.
Apple plans to launch the Vision Pro headset in US shops in early 2024
Gurman had beforehand reported that Apple would invite a couple of staff from every of its stores within the US to Cupertino, California for Vision Pro coaching. Trained staffers might then return and prepare their colleagues at respective Apple shops.
The Apple Vision Pro will initially be solely accessible within the US, with a gradual rollout of its restricted inventory anticipated in early 2024. The publication says that Apple is internally aiming for a retail launch in January. The Vision Pro is priced at an eye-watering $3,499 (roughly Rs. 2,91,400), however a less expensive mannequin with out high-end bells and whistles can be reportedly within the works.
Last month, Gurman had stated that the Vision Pro’s US launch is also delayed to March as Apple performed closing gadget testing and finalised distribution plans for its first combined actuality headset.
Meanwhile, the corporate additionally appears to have an eye fixed on the subsequent iteration of its spatial laptop. The Apple Vision Pro 2, codenamed Project Alaska, is reportedly in improvement. The headset might function a redesigned, flatter rear strap, amongst different modifications.
In July, a Financial Times report had claimed that Apple had been pressured to make main cuts to manufacturing forecasts for the Vision Pro. According to the report, Chinese contract producer Luxshare, Apple’s solely assembler of the gadget, would make fewer than 400,000 items of the Vision Pro in 2024. The FT report stated that the complexity of the headset design and difficulties in manufacturing had been behind the scaling again of targets.
