[News] Vision Pro Reportedly Set for First Sale Outside US, Potential Launch Countries Revealed!

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Apple’s Vision Pro, which went on sale in the United States in February this year, is reportedly gearing up for sales outside the US to test the waters! China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, and France are among the nations expected to join this wave of availability.

According to reports from the CTEE and Bloomberg, Apple has flown retail employees from various countries to its headquarter in Cupertino, California for training. The training program, started last week, lasted four days and focused on teaching staff how to demonstrate Vision Pros to customers. Participants in the training came from Germany, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and China.

Though Apple has not disclosed the actual debut date or the countries where the Vision Pro will be launched outside the US, in March, a report by MacRumors suggested that code within VisionOS might hint the potential sequence of international sales for the Vision Pro.

Apple has added 12 new languages to the Vision Pro’s virtual keyboard and auto-correction features, including English versions for five regions (Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, and the UK), French for two regions (France and Canada), German (Germany), as well as Japanese, Korean, Traditional Cantonese, and Simplified Chinese, which indicates that nine countries, including China, Japan, and Korea, may be among the first markets Vision Pro could potentially make its debut.

According to a January estimate by TrendForce, if initial sales are strong, Vision Pro shipments could reach between 500–600 thousand units in 2024. 

Apple’s Vision Pro features a Micro OLED display, currently exclusively supplied through a process that uses TSMC’s CMOS backplanes in combination with Sony’s deposition process.

 

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