Apple preps two new Vision Pro headsets

Apple’s Vision Pro automatically aligns the advanced optical system to your eyes. (Image credit: Dan Winters)
Apple is reportedly prepping two new Vision Pro headsets. The unit’s first device, a $3,500 headset, has been commercially unsuccessful. The plan is to release a “Vision Pro 2” model that makes the headset both lighter and cheaper. The other is a Vision Pro that plugs into a Mac for streaming a user’s Mac display or for connecting to high-end enterprise applications.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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The $3,500 price of the current version is extraordinarily steep, putting it in the same territory as Apple’s most expensive laptops. It also makes the Vision Pro more than seven times the price of Meta’s Quest headset.
The other headset in development could be even more intriguing. In January, I reported that Apple had scrapped work on augmented reality glasses that would tether to a Mac. Instead, it’s now working on a Vision Pro that plugs into a Mac. The difference between the two ideas is the level of immersion. The canceled device had transparent lenses; the product still in the works will use the same approach as the Vision Pro.
The idea is to create an ultra-low-latency system for streaming a user’s Mac display or for connecting to high-end enterprise applications. Some customers have been using the Vision Pro for things like viewing imaging during surgery or for flight simulators. Those are two areas where a user would want the least amount of lag possible — something that can’t be guaranteed by a fully wireless system.

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MacDailyNews Take: The next steps on a long road.
It’ll be quite a few years from now, but once Apple’s AR smart glasses are released, people are going to want to wear them during every waking hour and they’ll eventually largely replace iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks.
What supplants it will quite likely be something less obtrusive or, in the case of eyewear + personal assistant (AI glasses), something regarded as less obtrusive (easier and quicker to use regardless of the drawbacks of wearing glasses).
Removing obstacles between the human brain and the Internet is the goal. – MacDailyNews, January 14, 2017
Someday, hopefully sooner than later, we’ll look back at holding up slabs of metal and glass to access AR as unbelievably quaint. — MacDailyNews, July 28, 2017
The impact of augmented reality cannot be overstated. It will be a paradigm shift larger than the iPhone and the half-assed clones it begat. — MacDailyNews, August 4, 2017
Augmented Reality is going to change everything. — MacDailyNews, July 21, 2017
Imagine what could be done with AirPods coupled with a pair of Apple Specs. The sky’s the limit! — MacDailyNews, November 17, 2016
The Apple Glasses will be the key as holding up slabs of glass as “windows” is suboptimal. When we’re running in a race, for example, we don’t want to have to hold an iPhone or even glance at an Apple Watch, but with a pair of Apple Glasses constantly overlaying time, pace, splits, etc. it’ll be ideal! — MacDailyNews, September 6, 2019
Information instantly accessible right in front of your eyes will enhance virtually (pun intended) everything. The next step after that, of course, will be chips implanted into our brains, as humans become cyborgs. It’s inevitable. – MacDailyNews, November 30, 2021

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