Immersed Visor is a new headset that aims to bridge the gap between simple “head monitors” like the $440 Viture One XR and the $3,500 standalone Vision Pro. Weighing slightly less than an iPhone 16 Pro at 199 grams, it comes in at $1,050, with a nice tradeoff. The new Visor offers a VisionOS-like experience by offloading the computations to a computer.

The Immersed Visor is a Vision Pro Lite

Indeed, like cheap VR headsets, you can’t use it as a standalone device – it’s only meant to be used as a Mac monitor – but it does offer hand and eye tracking…

New Immersed Visor takes on 4x more expensive Vision Pro

Still, the device does more than just Snap-style AR glasses, but less than a full headset. In concrete terms, the Immersed Visor features the equivalent of a 4K OLED display in front of each eye, with a 100-degree field of view. It supports 6DoF tracking (meaning it responds to movements on multiple axes, not just simple head rotations), and it offers hand and eye tracking as well as support for more than five displays in a VR or mixed reality environment.

Visor weighs just 186g, slightly less than an iPhone 16 Pro. It’s 64% lighter than the Meta Quest 3 (515g) and about 70% lighter than the Apple Vision Pro (600-650g).

One of the main differences between the basic glasses and the Vision Pro is that on Apple’s device, the monitors stay where you place them in your physical environment, rather than moving with your head. The Visor has chosen Apple’s route.

With full tracking, you can stand up, lean over, or turn around, and the virtual screens will stay where you placed them. You can choose between transparent and virtual environments, and work collaboratively with other users, including sharing screens. Multiplayer mode is limited to 5 people.

While it can be worn as a pair of glasses, the company admits that’s just to get people to try it out, or for very brief use, and that you’ll need to use a strap like the Vision Pro’s for extended use. Like Apple, Immersed has opted for a self-contained battery pack.

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Look at the Immersed conference on YouTube.

The price of the beast

The company Immersed officially unveiled the headset yesterday (in multiple colorways), it’ll ship next month at two price points. You can either shell out $1,049.98 or opt for a subscription model: $40 per month for 24 months or $60 per month for 12 months. That model won’t ship until “six months after” October, which is April 2025. If you want a device that starts shipping next month—the “Founder’s Edition”—the price jumps to $1,350 or $700 plus a monthly subscription fee (the same as the version that ships later).

The Visor works with Mac, Windows and Linux computers. We’ll try to get one delivered to the editorial office!

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