How Apple Is Making the Successor to the Vision Pro Easier to Wear

Apple Vision Pro is about to go on sale in early 2024, however the iPhone maker is reportedly at work on a successor to the first-generation machine. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his weekly Power On e-newsletter that Apple is focussing on reducing each the weight and dimension of the second-generation Vision Pro headset. On the different hand, Facebook mum or dad Meta is working in the direction of decreasing the worth of its upcoming headsets, shortly after the firm unveiled the Meta Quest 3.

Unveiled earlier this 12 months at Apple’s WWDC 2023 occasion in June, the Apple Vision Pro will not go on sale for a couple of extra months — however Apple is already engaged on a successor to the wearable machine, in accordance to particulars shared by Gurman. Testing has revealed that the weight and dimension of the Vision Pro has led to neck pressure, and the second-generation machine may have a lighter and smaller construct.

Gurman additionally discusses a few of the different hurdles that the Apple Vision Pro is going through, together with customers who put on spectacles. With the first-generation headset, customers can have to buy prescription lenses from Zeiss that can be hooked up to the headset magnetically. However, he factors out that doing so may make sharing the machine a lot tougher, particularly if two individuals have totally different prescription glasses.

An worker at Meta instructed Gurman that the firm was watching Apple forward of the debut of its wearable headset subsequent 12 months. Both units are marketed in the direction of clients who need both productiveness or gaming, and Meta has reportedly shifted away from its metaverse pitch to align itself with its newest competitor, Apple.

While Apple is claimed to be engaged on decreasing the dimension of its subsequent headset, Meta is wanting to make its subsequent headset cheaper than the Quest 3, to make it extra accessible to clients. According to Gurman, the firm may obtain this by promoting the headset with out included controllers and requiring clients to buy them individually.

Meta’s not too long ago unveiled Ray-Ban sun shades don’t supply any AR performance, other than capturing photographs and movies, taking calls and listening to music. The firm plans to launch glasses with AR shows by 2025, in accordance to Gurman.