One of the things that I will never understand of the Vision Pro is why on earth they went to design and build the front of the headset to have that colorful alive gradient or a truly bad rendering of the user's face. That screams bad overengineering with undesired added weight and extra power consumption. Also it seems that the front glass from some batches crack exactly the same way. Again, why go with that at all? Why not use some better material? Carbon fiber seems like a good choice when it comes to weight though I do not know if it has downsides besides cost.
This is apple. They see users break their phone screens and they go OK, lets make them more soap bar like and also give them glass on the backside too so you can’t get lucky landing on that side. All to pocket your couple hundred dollars replacing it or in applecare coverage which probably costed you more than the one screen replacement did over its life.
> users break their phone screens and they go OK, lets make them more soap bar like
They also massively strengthened the glass. (I don’t have a case on my iPhone. I drop it constantly, most recently on a double-black ski run while I was trying to get it to be a GoPro.)
> give them glass on the backside too so you can’t get lucky landing on that side
Fair enough, just noticed mine is cracked there. Not bothering me so will leave as is.
Vision Pro front glass weighs 34g. There are bigger weight problems than that.
And they are anticipating a future where the weight is significantly lower and people are wearing them for many hours a day. And so they wanted a corollary for AirPod transparency mode i.e. being able to interact with people without taking device off.
