Apple Vision Pro headsets are already being resold for a massive profit
Topics: Technology, Apple
Callum Jones
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Topics: Technology, Apple
Apple's latest piece of tech is already being resold online for a massive profit, just hours after pre-orders went live.
While the Apple Vision Pro headset may upon first glance look like a pair of ski-goggles, it’s got a whole range of features to help you immerse yourself in virtual reality.
Announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2023 last June, CEO Tim Cook explained that the Vision Pro has a full 3D interface with the device being controlled by your hands, eyes and voice.
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Though he joked that the device was ‘…the first Apple product you look through, and not at’.
You can also switch between augmented and full virtual reality by using a dial.
Apple finally announced a release date for the headset recently, with sales beginning in the US at Apple Stores and online from 2 February.
Pre-orders official opened on Friday - though such purchase comes with an extremely high price tag.
Apple say the Vision Pro will start at $3,499, a price-tag that prompted the audience to gasp at Apple’s WWDC23 event last year.
Compare this to the $499 Meta Quest 3 - the leading VR headset from Facebook's parent company - there is quite the price difference.
Nonetheless, many flocked to purchase the headset on Friday, though resellers on eBay are already taking advantage of the pre-order sales.
The Vision Pro went live for pre-order at 5 am PT/8 am ET, and within an hour, some of them were already being listed on eBay.
In fact, the piece of tech was on sale with massive markups of over $1,000, with listings on the selling of for $4,250 and $4,500 plus shipping costs.
After eBay takes off all its fees, sellers are still looking at a juicy $1,000 profit with the headset.
The original price set by Apple was already enough for a lot of folks interested in the Vision Pro.
Having heard the eye-watering price last year, one X user joked about the device’s ‘add-ons’ saying: “Is the snorkel included?”
Another, still in shock at the price, wrote: “Is that 34.99...”
However, some Apple devotees defended the headset’s cost, saying: “The first VHS players that came out would cost $3500 dollars in today's money. Yet people still managed to buy them in droves.”
Despite this, others were still unimpressed, with one user replying: “Even if that was correct, a vhs player could be enjoyed by multiple people at once. This is just for one user at a time.”