Apple is working on a visionOS version for smart glasses
Apple's Vision Pro headset has been a flop, according to the latest report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. One reason is its price, unsurprisingly, the other one being "its cumbersome design".
So Apple is now looking at the future and the next big thing, and apparently smart glasses are it. Thus, the company is said to be currently working on a version of visionOS that's meant for smart glasses.
It makes sense to use the same OS that powers the Vision Pro, but the bad news is that Apple smart glasses are apparently still three years away, or even more.
Apple allegedly wanted to come out with a pair of smart glasses as a follow-up to the Vision Pro, so presumably within a year or two, but "the technical challenges were just too great".
So now Apple wants to bridge the gap between the Vision Pro and the smart glasses by releasing "other devices in the style of Vision Pro" that will be cheaper and thus hopefully more enticing to consumers. Those, however, are unlikely to ship this year.
Reader comments
- Anonymous
If Meta releases their Ray-Ban with screen for 999 dollars it will be doa. 499 max and it will sell well. Apple will likely try price theirs around 499 dollars because it requires latest iPhone to be used.
- 5 hours ago
- mEb
- Anonymous
What are you on about? Meta sells more Quest headsets in a day than Apple has sold headsets in one and a half years. Meta themselves learned from the Quest Pro sales, no one wants a 2,000 buck headset. They kept that secret to themselves until after ...
- 28 Jan 2025
- 7@8
- Anonymous
Maybe, just maybe, VR is something that most people are fundamentally uncomfortable with. I've tried it a few times, and while an early VR flight simulator was pretty cool, I could see how it could be nauseating. And apart from games, and, ahem,...
- 28 Jan 2025
- Ibx