Belkin’s Vision Pro strap should just come with the headset

The Vision Pro VR headset is specified an Apple merchandise — meticulously designed and packed with unthinkable tech, but designed to beryllium utilized Apple’s way, whether you similar it oregon not. For many, that means the headset is aggressively uncomfortable to deterioration owed to its value distribution. For the past respective days, though, I’ve been investigating a solution Apple present sells that’s truthful simple, truthful obvious, that I’m really miffed astatine Apple for not including thing similar it from the precise beginning: the Belkin Head Strap.

Belkin’s strap works successful tandem with Apple’s Solo Knit Band. The Solo Knit Band wraps astir your caput with an elastic cushion, clamping the headset to your look but putting a batch of strain connected your neck. Belkin’s strap gives you much enactment by distributing immoderate of the Vision Pro’s value to the apical of your head.

Apple’s Dual Loop Band, which besides comes with the Vision Pro, does this, too. But the Dual Loop Band is simply a batch much of a hassle to usage and a batch little comfy to wear. You person to spell backmost and distant betwixt the 2 straps to marque adjustments, whereas it’s speedy enactment to set Belkin’s strap, halt erstwhile it feels right, and past rapidly cinch the Solo Band by turning its dial.

The Dual Loop Band besides lacks the comfy cushioning of the Solo Band, and its bladed bands spot much unit wherever the precocious strap meets your head; it makes that spot connected my caput unpleasantly numb aft astir 30 minutes. Belkin’s strap gives you the champion of some worlds — you get the cushy strap from the Solo Band, with the amended value organisation of the Dual Band.

Belkin’s strap feels good made. It’s brushed and flexible, and tightening it is astir arsenic casual arsenic adjusting the Solo Knit Band — it works precisely similar the Apple Watch Sport Loop, utilizing a Velcro-like fastener to unafraid it to the tightness you want. The set is besides elemental to attach. You disconnect the battery, removing the Solo Knit Band, and descent the clips connected either extremity of the caput strap implicit the tips of the talker arms.

Using the strap is undeniably amended than utilizing the Solo Knit Band unsocial oregon the Dual Loop Band erstwhile wearing the Vision Pro portion sitting down oregon lasting upright, peculiarly for longer stretches of time. I’m 1 of the freaks who tin deterioration the headset and beryllium reasonably comfy for a agelong time, truthful I can’t archer you I went from utilizing it for 30 minutes to 10 hours. But I tin accidental my cervix feels better, and truthful does my look since I don’t request to clamp it arsenic tightly to support the headset successful place. It besides feels a spot much unchangeable portion I’m doing thing carnal similar playing Synth Riders, one of the fewer bully games disposable for the Vision Pro.

The lone portion I’m not a instrumentality of is the $49.95 terms tag. It’s not conscionable that it’s costly — and it is! — it’s that it costs that overmuch to bargain thing that Apple should’ve enactment successful the container from time one. The institution adjacent seemed to person 1 successful the works! Remember that 1 feline from the WWDC presumption who was wearing a apical strap (which looks a batch similar Spigen’s cheaper alternative) with the Solo Knit Band? What happened to that?

The cynic successful maine says Apple didn’t see that apical strap due to the fact that it was conscionable excessively arrogant of the Solo Knit Band — in photos, the headset looks undeniably sleeker without a apical strap, and the Dual Loop inactive offers a slimmed-down profile. Whatever the case, present that Belkin’s Head Strap is here, it’s wide however overmuch this was needed each along. Still, if you’ve already tried akin options similar those from Spigen oregon Annapro and recovered them wanting, Belkin’s strap is good worthy a shot.