It seems the future of Vision Pro headset has been sealed at Apple
Apple has reportedly scaled back its Vision Pro initiative, reassigning the original team to other projects and halting development of a next-generation model, despite the device still being available for purchase. The M5 update in late 2025 failed to revive interest, as consumer adoption remained low and return rates were unusually high. While not officially discontinued, the Vision Pro appears to be effectively shelved for the foreseeable future.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
It’s never easy watching a big swing miss. But this one? This one stings a little differently because Apple had every resource in the world to make it work, and it still couldn’t. According to MacRumors, Apple has quietly stepped back from the Vision Pro. Not discontinued it — the M5 model is still sitting on shelves at $3,499 — but the internal teams that built and maintained it have been scattered across other projects, and there are currently no plans for a next-generation model. For all practical purposes, the Vision Pro experiment is on ice, possibly permanently.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Digital Trends.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Digital Trends
