A Year of Regret for Early Adopters of Apple’s Vision Pro Headset

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Sore necks, dirty looks, and a lighter wallet. The early buyers of Apple’s Vision Pro headsets tell WSJ’s Joseph Pisani why they regret being a first adopter of a once-promising device. Then, WSJ tech and crypto-policy reporter Amrith Ramkumar has an exclusive look at a letter Democratic Senators wrote to ask for answers about the Trump administration’s interactions with Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Victoria Craig hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, May 16th. I'm Victoria
1:17.1	Craig for the Wall Street Journal. A $3,500 Apple device was supposed to be the next great thing in tech.
1:23.9	It turned out to be essentially a pricey paperweight for some of the early adopters
1:29.1	who bought it. Then, Binance's founder wants a presidential pardon. Our reporter has exclusive
1:34.8	details about Democratic senators now asking for details about the Trump administration's
1:40.0	interactions with the man known as CZ.
1:55.9	But first, when Apple launched its Vision Pro headset in 2024, it did so to much fanfare and long lines.
2:00.3	The device promised to usher in an era of what Apple called spatial computing.
2:01.6	It's familiar yet groundbreaking.
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