Apple’s Vision Pro team is reportedly focused on building a cheaper headset

Apple whitethorn nary longer beryllium moving connected a caller high-end Vision headset amid slowing income of the Vision Pro, according to a caller study from The Information. Instead, Apple has seemingly been uncovering ways to trim the outgo of components for the archetypal exemplary and is moving connected a cheaper Vision headset that it aims to vessel by the extremity of 2025.

The archetypal Vision Pro came retired earlier this year, and portion it’s a precise bully VR headset, it has a batch of flaws inherent to galore different VR headsets. It’s besides rather expensive, starting astatine $3,499, and — what I noticed astir erstwhile I tried the Vision Pro astatine an Apple Store — beauteous heavy.

With a cheaper Vision headset, which is reportedly codenamed N109, Apple aims to support the high-res displays that marque the Vision Pro basal retired but region immoderate features and marque it “at slightest one-third lighter,” according to The Information. The institution seemingly wants to terms the cheaper Vision headset astatine a terms that’s successful enactment with a high-end iPhone; Bloomberg reported in October that Apple was aiming for a terms constituent betwixt $1,500 and $2,500. And The Information reports that Apple has had occupation cutting costs without compromising excessively overmuch connected features, truthful this cheaper headset whitethorn not marque that 2025 goal.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment.

The institution is inactive putting musculus down the Vision Pro: it plans to begin releasing the headset internationally astatine the extremity of June and adhd a clump of new features with visionOS 2 this fall. But we’ll person to hold and spot if the institution ends up releasing different high-end Vision instrumentality down the enactment oregon if it volition absorption semipermanent connected a much affordable product.