Man seen sporting the Apple Vision Pro in Indiranagar, Bengaluru. (Image: Ayush Pranav/X)
An particular person in Bengaluru was seen sporting the $3,499 Apple Vision Pro, and it’s straight out of one thing like a Black Mirror episode.
After the discharge of its Vision Pro combined-actuality headset within the United States, the web was flooded with movies and pictures that includes early adopters in numerous public locations—subways, eating places, streets, and extra—partaking in peculiar hand gestures and showing misplaced with the headsets on. Many observers deemed this “dystopian,” drawing parallels to scenes from the Netflix sequence Black Mirror.
Despite the exclusivity of the headset to the United States for the time being, the viral content material primarily originated from there. Surprisingly, this development has now reached India, after a person was noticed sporting the $3,499 combined-actuality headset on the streets of Bengaluru, India’s Silicon Valley.
Shared on X (previously referred to as Twitter), Ayush Pranav posted a picture capturing a teen sporting the Apple Vision Pro within the streets of Indiranagar. He talked about, “bumped into @waitin4agi_ while he was playing around with his vision pro on the streets of Indiranagar” and added, “gotta be a @peakbengaluru moment.”
While this incidence was anticipated, it’s noteworthy that the costly headset is being offered at a premium in India. Independent checks recognized offline retailers in cities like New Delhi and Jaipur promoting the 256GB variant for upwards of Rs 4 lakh (roughly $4800), considerably exceeding the US retail value.
Nevertheless, because the headset positive factors broader acceptance, these sightings are anticipated to proliferate in metro cities as extra individuals get their palms on it.
Regarding the official launch, Apple has not supplied any indication of whether or not the headset will likely be launched in India anytime quickly.
