Apple Vision Pro may get tunable lenses for vision correction without the need for custom inserts

The Apple Vision Pro may be failing to attract enterprise customers but that doesn’t mean Apple isn’t determined to continue improving it. A new patent just filed by Apple lays out the mechanisms for a theoretical lens that can be tuned to compensate for a prescription.

Now, if something like this actually becomes a reality, it would be pretty awesome in my opinion. But I suspect it’d also be quite expensive, much like Apple’s headset. Such lenses may save a consumer some cash by negating the need to buy custom lenses. But that depends on how much it costs Apple to manufacture these bad boys.

According to the patent, these lenses may have to be filled with fluid. In addition to compensating for a user’s prescription, the patent also points out that these lenses would be able to adjust according to different scenarios. If I had to guess, Apple is probably talking about improving visuals under different lighting conditions. The Vision Pro is a Mixed Reality headset, after all.