Apple Sidelines Lighter Vision Pro To Prioritize Smart Glasses

Apple is speeding up activity connected smart glasses that would compete pinch akin offerings from Meta and halting plans for a lighter Vision Pro headset, Bloomberg reports. The institution is apparently moving connected astatine slightest 2 different versions: a brace without a show that it could uncover adjacent twelvemonth and motorboat successful 2027, and a brace pinch a show primitively planned for 2028 that nan institution wants to “accelerate development” on.

Like Meta’s smart glasses made successful business pinch Ray-Ban and Oakley, Apple’s glasses will person speakers, cameras, travel successful aggregate styles, and “will trust heavy connected sound relationship and artificial intelligence,” according to Bloomberg. The type of nan glasses pinch a show “could challenge” nan Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, which person a show successful nan correct lens. Apple is besides moving connected a spot specifically designed for its smart glasses, Bloomberg has previously reported.

With its glasses, Apple will beryllium precocious to nan game. Meta conscionable announced a bunch of caller glasses of its own, including a second-generation type of nan Ray-Ban Meta glasses pinch much amended artillery life that are disposable now, a caller brace of Oakley-branded glasses designed for athletes launching this month, and nan Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, which my workfellow Victoria Song called the champion smart glasses she’s ever tried. 

As for nan lighter Vision Pro headset, Apple had been rumored to motorboat nan merchandise in 2027, but nan institution told unit that it was pulling group from that headset to thief pinch nan glasses. Apple has reportedly scaled backmost production of nan original Vision Pro, but regulatory filings spotted this week revealed that a caller type is in nan works, which Bloomberg called a “modest refresh” that could motorboat “as early arsenic nan extremity of this year.”