We’re a US company but have a founder who’s on a longer trip abroad (digital nomading), not expected to come back the States soon. So we wanted to order the Vision Pro and ship it to him.
However, Zeiss does not accept prescriptions from abroad. How can this be resolved? I’ve seen a couple of people from Germany on LinkedIn who are already using the VP, so I assume there must be a way to get around this limitation somehow.
We’ve had some of our people in Europe use https://www.govisibly.com/ to get a US prescription that matched their foreign prescription (not an endorsement, just happened to work for us! 
) But shipping was always to the US, and then we shipped them out to them from there.
Thanks for the hint, that’s awesome. One question here: I use two different pairs of glasses, one for far distance and one for near distance (reading on a monitor). Do you happen to know which prescription would work better with the Vision Pro? I’ve seen that Zeiss asks if you’re older than 40, maybe that’s why, and they expect the “regular” prescription (i.e. for far distance) and adjust the values themselves?
I believe it is the distance ones. I wear contacts for distance but also need reading glasses. (the reading is due to age). Since I wear my contacts, I don’t have custom lenses in the device. BUT, when I have device on, I don’t need my reading glasses, they function like reading glasses (really expensive reading glasses). One of the Apple devs explained why it worked that way, but I don’t recall he technical explanation.
I’d guess because the device’s displays have a single focal distance that your eyes focus at. As far as your eye’s optics are concerned, every pixel is at that distance, and if you can see sharply at that distance then every pixel is sharp — even if stereoscopic rendering makes your brain think that things are closer or more distant.
Thanks. Now the question is only, if that works better with the values of near distance or far distance glasses. I sent Zeiss a request about that. If you happen to know what your colleagues chose, pls let me know. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. So I guess you’re wearing you with your (distance) lenses? Vision Pro is a video-through device, so it is natural that they work like reading glasses. What you actually see is the video feed, and I guess the cameras adjust automatically (auto-focus). I just wasn’t sure if the fact that you’re actually looking on a display suggests you’d need your reading glasses strenghts. Haven’t heard back from my request to Zeiss, though.
You can go on China’s Taobao (taobao.com, it’s Alibaba’s website), I’ve already bought a pair on there, it’s about $40 USD (excluding postage) shipped the same day, and you can customize any lens, including Zeiss , the seller is 3D printing the frames to match the lenses, It shouldn’t be as good as the original apple one, but it will solve some problems, so if you have any questions you can ask me.
Thanks for the hint. I already bought the Zeiss ones, but I will keep that in mind in case someone else in our team needs lenses as well. The $199 price tag is just insane.
I’m curious if the original Apple Zeiss lenses have a refractive index written on them? The price difference between Zeiss lenses with different refractive indexes in China is huge (tens of times)