Apple’s Vision Pro Headset Commanding a Premium Price In Korea’s Second Marketplace
People must have a lot of money to waste to spend up $1,800 over the current asking price for the Vision Pro just to get it earlier than when it is officially released in South Korea:
![A customer uses Apple's Vision Pro headset at the Apple Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., February 2, 2024. [REUTERS/YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2024/02/13/7f74abd9-08fe-45e0-9184-2370b413ba69.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
A customer uses Apple’s Vision Pro headset at the Apple Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., February 2, 2024. [REUTERS/YONHAP]
Apple’s Vision Pro is being sold at a premium of as much as 2.4 million won ($1,800) in Korea as the new wearable is not officially available in the country.
Some are even paying to experience the device for a couple of hours.Apple’s MR (mixed reality) headset, the Vision Pro, launched in the United States on Feb. 1 to better-than-expected popularity despite a hefty price tag of $3,500 for the cheapest 256-gigabyte storage option. An estimated 180,000 units or more have been sold, selling out the pre-order quantity.
Major secondhand marketplaces in Korea have dozens of posts reselling the device at an inflated price. Mostly purchased in the U.S., these devices are listed with a price 1 million won to 2 million won over the official price tag.
Joong Ang Ilbo
You can read more at the link, but has any ROK Heads try this headset out yet? Is it anywhere near being worth the price currently listed for it?
Apple fans are all social media influencers… just ask them…
I have a similar, though “less elegant” system so I was interested in what they had to offer.
I went to the Apple website.
My biggest takeaway is this thing isn’t being marketed to white men…
…except perhaps guilty self-hating ones.
In fact, it appeared to concentrate on the demographics least interested and least able to afford.
Come on, Apple, read the room.
I don’t get it. Samsung Gear came out in 2012. And there have been a plethora of virtual reality headsets that have been on the market for a decade now. But Apple finally makes one, and all of a sudden they’re the ones who invented this “new technology”?
Speaking of inventing copycat fads, here’s the story of the Chinese government warning Chinese youth who are cooking and eating potato starch toothpicks after the Chinese copied the fad in South Korea.
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3250176/chinas-young-chow-down-dangerous-deep-fried-starch-toothpicks-inspired-south-korea-food-fad-sparking
Now that’s far more dangerous than the South Korean versions of this fad because the Chinese-made starch toothpicks are mixed with plastic and other artificial toxic materials, unlike the ones made in South Korea which are 100% organic.
Korea Man, everyone (except Google Glass) is producing VR where you see only the screen. Apple is making AR where you see reality with a screen overlay.
Along with gesture control and other features, this is pretty decent technology if there is content.
Let’s see if its utility is worth the price or if it will go the way of the Lisa.