Apple reportedly planning ‘lighter and cheaper’ refresh for Vision Pro, more

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is going full steam ahead on a lighter and cheaper version of Apple Vision Pro, addressing some of the biggest pain points with the first generation headset. There’s also a second headset in the works, which aims to reduce latency concerns with real world applications. Vision Pro 2 Gurman reports that Apple had previously been planning a ‘more basic refresh’, essentially just jumping from an M2 chip to an M5 chip without any major hardware changes. Now, that won’t be the case. The product that we currently refer to as Vision Pro will be prioritizing enterprise applications, where the latency of an all-wireless setup was too much of a concern: 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. With the ultra-low latency of a wired connection, the headset would be useful for viewing images during surgery or for flight simulators, according to Gurman. A previous ... Read full article.