Don’t Expect a Next-Gen Apple Vision Pro Anytime Soon

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The Apple Vision Pro connected  a stand.

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A caller study suggests Apple is halting enactment connected a second-generation Vision Pro and volition alternatively absorption connected a fund exemplary owed successful 2025.

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According to respective sources related to the manufacturing and proviso of the adjacent Vision Pro who spoke to The Information, Apple has suspended accumulation connected its adjacent high-end headset. Instead, the institution volition absorption connected a “more affordable Vision merchandise with less features.” Additional sources accidental the program was ever to person 2 tiers of the headset, similar the iPhone: a modular mentation and a Pro version.

The modular Vision headset isn’t having a breeze successful manufacturing either. Apple is moving connected making the entry-level Vision astir “one-third lighter than the Vision Pro,” which is proving challenging. One of the main complaints of the archetypal $3,500 Vision Pro is that its astir one-and-a-half-pound value sits excessively heavy connected a person’s head.

The Vision Pro’s allure has lost immoderate luster since its February debut. Sales person slowed, and adjacent past week’s WWDC offered small fanfare for the headset compared to the erstwhile year’s large affair. Apple announced it was yet launching the Vision Pro successful planetary regions, including Australia, China, Japan, and respective cardinal European markets.

However, adjacent with caller customers perchance entering the fold, 1 of the Vision Pro suppliers “cut accumulation by half” conscionable past month, suggesting Apple is quieting down connected the merchandise wide until the adjacent large push.

The upside to the perceived hold is that Apple has clip to enactment connected getting developers and different large apps to travel to the mixed world platform. That means a much built-out ecosystem than the work-in-progress that Vision OS has seemed similar since its launch.

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