Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has introduced its first mixed-reality headset, the Vivo Vision Discovery Edition, making the device available for in-store demonstrations at a dozen retail locations across mainland China. Executives said the headset could eventually be priced at about ¥10,000 ($1,400), roughly one-third of Apple’s ¥30,000 ($3,499) Vision Pro, though full consumer sales are not expected before 2026. Weighing 398 g, the visor is about 40 percent lighter than Apple’s 650-gram Vision Pro and 26 percent more compact than the industry average, according to the company. Hardware highlights include dual 3,840 × 3,552 micro-OLED displays with 94 percent DCI-P3 colour coverage, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 processor, eye-tracking accuracy of 1.5 degrees, and 26-degree hand-gesture recognition. The unit runs OriginOS Vision, Vivo’s fork of Android, and relies on an external battery pack similar in design to Apple’s. For now, Vivo is limiting the Vision Discovery Edition to timed demonstrations as it gauges interest in China’s still-nascent spatial-computing market. The move underscores intensifying competition in premium head-worn devices as incumbent players—including Apple, Meta and an expected Samsung-Google partnership—prepare next-generation models.