{"id":164714,"date":"2025-08-21T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:49:09","slug":"vivo-vision-mixed-reality-headset-steps-up-to-apple-but-still-a-tough-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164714\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivo Vision Mixed-Reality Headset Steps Up to Apple, but Still a Tough Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look-alikes<\/a> of Apple products<\/a> often pop up in China, and mixed-reality headsets have now joined the party. Chinese smartphone<\/a> maker Vivo has introduced the Vivo Vision, a headset that mixes\u00a0AR and VR<\/a>\u00a0and bears many similarities to the\u00a0Apple Vision Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The company announced the Vivo Vision Discovery Edition<\/a> at its 30th anniversary celebration in Dongguan, China, saying it’s “the first MR product developed by a smartphone manufacturer in China, positioning Vivo as the first Chinese company to operate within both the smartphone and MR product sectors.”<\/p>\n

The Vivo Vision, currently limited to an in-store experience in mainland China, has a curved glass visor, an aluminum external battery pack and downward-pointing cameras like the Vision Pro<\/a>. But it also has some differences — an 180-degree panoramic field of view and a much lighter weight at 398 grams (versus the Vision Pro’s 650 grams).<\/p>\n

CNET asked Vivo if it plans to sell the Vivo Vision to non-China markets, but the company did not immediately respond.<\/p>\n

The Vivo Vision runs on OriginOS Vision, Vivo’s mixed-reality operating system. It supports 3D video recording, spatial photos and audio, and a 120-foot cinematic screen experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The starting cost in China will be relatively cheaper at $1,395 (converted to US dollars), compared to the Vision Pro at $3,500<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even if the Vivo Vision were made available in the US, it might not matter much to Apple’s bottom line. The Vision Pro hasn’t been a big seller, in large part because of the steep price tag. Still, the headset market is expected to grow quickly<\/a> over the next several years, and Apple is already working on new versions<\/a> of the\u00a0Vision Pro<\/a>, including one that’s more affordable than the original.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jon Rettinger<\/a>, a tech influencer with more than 1.65 million YouTube subscribers, says he’s not overly enthusiastic about VR\/AR just yet. “It’s heavy, invasive and without a must-have use case,” Rettinger told CNET. “If the technology can go from goggles to glasses, I think we’ll see a significant rise. But if the current form factors stay, it will always be niche.<\/p>\n

The YouTuber loves that the technology exists, but still doesn’t use it. “The honeymoon wore off. Aside from some gaming and content viewing, it’s still cumbersome, and I tend to go back to my laptop,” he said.<\/p>\n

Austin Evans<\/a>, another tech influencer, says VR\/AR headsets are still a somewhat flawed concept. Evans feels lukewarm about the price, lack of content and comfort level, though the Meta Quest takes a superior spot over the Apple Vision Pro. “The Quest<\/a>\u00a0is such a better value proposition, and even there it runs into issues with long-term retention and ultimately living in a drawer once the honeymoon period ends,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look-alikes of Apple products often pop up in China, and mixed-reality headsets have now joined the party. Chinese…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-164714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115068729068360527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}