A less-expensive and lighter “Apple Vision” product might arrive as early as someday in 2025.
Regardless of reportedly weak Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional gross sales to customers, Apple is engaged on each a less-expensive model in addition to a second-generation mannequin, alongside analysis on a “smart glasses” kind machine.
The corporate is constant to have a look at one other class fully, the “smart glasses” space that’s presently outlined by Meta’s $329-and-up good Ray Ban glasses. The Apple model, which may be dubbed “Apple Glass,” has no timetable at current, very similar to the second-generation Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Based on the report, the thought of constructing the glasses-style machine into a real augmented-reality product has “been tabled due to technical challenges.” This might set the potential launch of the “Apple Glass” product again additional than both the subsequent Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional or the projected “Apple Vision” headsets.
It stays unclear what modifications may be made within the cheaper “Apple Vision” product with a view to deliver the associated fee down, which reporter Mark Gurman feels ought to be within the $1,500 vary to draw extra consumers. One possibility could be to make any future headset out of lighter supplies, because the weight issue of the present Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is one other of its primary criticisms, alongside the worth.