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Mark Gurman writes in his Power On <\/em>newsletter<\/a> for Bloomberg <\/em>today that a future Apple virtual reality headset could be smaller and lighter, and each unit could ship customized from the factory for people with impaired vision. With the first-generation Vision Pro, the company\u2019s solution for glasses wearers is to stock optional Zeiss-made lenses in its retail stores, which creates its own problems with managing the supply, and turning its electronics store into a health provider. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The article points out how fraught tying a product to a custom display could be, given how prescriptions can change with time and how it would limit the ability to share the headset or resell it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Apple has almost certainly already thought about this, and it\u2019s filed patents as recently as August<\/a> that show it\u2019s interested in making a VR or AR display that can be adjusted to correct someone\u2019s vision. Doing something like that would keep the company from adding a new barrier to entry to a product that\u2019s already probably too expensive. And it could be good for customers who don\u2019t realize they even have bad vision when they buy a new VR headset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n