The Vision Pro in stores starting Feb. 2

Pre-orders start Jan. 19 begging the question: what's the over-under on when Apple announces it "sold out" the first manufacturing run?

Because everybody’s been waiting (and by that, I mean lots of tech bloggers and lots of SVPs hoping to expense one as their company’s self-appointed “early tech evaluator”) to buy Apple’s manifestation of spatial computing, the Vision Pro. I expect a lot of software developer Xitter feeds with screen grabs of pre-order confirmations. We’ll learn a lot about our developer friends (and those friends who desperately want to escape meat space altogether.

In short, it’ll cost $3,499 (and for $199 more you can get the device’s lenses ground to your prescription), and Apple’s said the product will be hitting stores (Apple retail and online stores) by Feb. 2. (As per usual, Ars Technica has some nice round-ups here.)

It’s a fascinating piece of design and technology. Apple is delivering on the interest it sparked last year at its introduction. It’s a clever refinement of what used to be AR/VR headsets done in a singular way. There was a word that used to describe use of such devices. Meta . . .tarsal? Whatever, nobody uses that word anymore.

Battery life (2.5 hours according to Apple), physical fit (on human heads), are certainly things to consider but assuming most of these v1 Vision Pros are probably going to developers, they’re likely to be more tolerant those challenges.

While fun to speculate about it, I think I did plenty of that in my previous note. I’ll wait until I can borrow yours.