Apple plans to release an updated Vision Pro headset with its as-yet-unannounced M5 chip in 2025, according to Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The current Vision Pro is equipped with the M2 chip, which debuted in 2022.
Kuo did not say if the updated Vision Pro will have any other new features or changes compared to the current model that launched earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Apple has delayed production of a cheaper version of the Vision Pro until “beyond 2027” for “a while now,” according to Kuo.
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman also touched on Apple’s future plans for its Vision line of products.
Like Kuo, Gurman said that Apple is planning a “chip upgrade” for the Vision Pro, but he did not say if that will happen in 2025. He also believes that Apple continues to develop a cheaper version of the Vision Pro headset with “scaled-down technologies,” but he did not provide a release timeframe for that product either.
Gurman added that Apple is “seriously considering” an iPhone-connected, glasses-like device.
“I also continue to hear that Apple is seriously considering a device that offloads the computing components to an iPhone and serves as an accessory for watching movies,” he said. “That’s something that would be roughly akin to the glasses offered by companies like Xreal. The benefit for Apple is that it would reinforce the iPhone as the center of its product ecosystem and offer something that could be a much more popular option than the $3,500 Vision Pro.”
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