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Note to parents: Your child’s screen addiction is about to get worse

It may become harder to wean children away from the latest hyper-real headsets.

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The latest gizmo stocking retail shelves is the Apple Vision Pro headset, which goes on sale in Singapore on June 28 at a starting price of $5,299.

The writer, who tested the Apple Vision Pro on June 24, says two words came to mind: awesome and scary.

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If yelling at your offspring to get off their phones is hard now, I can’t imagine what it would be like in the future when screens are plastered – literally – on their faces. 

Tech giants Meta and Apple are leading the transformation of computing: from hardware that rests on the desk or in users’ palms to glasses worn over the eyes.

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