Kuo: Apple's Vision Pro Successors Off the Table as Focus Shifts to Smart Glasses

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus signed disconnected connected a large revision of Apple's Vision Pro and astute glasses plans, consolidating Apple's enactment successful the category.


According to Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo, Ternus nixed plans for a 2nd Vision Pro and a lighter Vision Air. Kuo says determination are lone 2 astute glasses products successful development, including the AI astute glasses that Apple is creating to rival the Meta Ray-Bans and a display-equipped acceptable of AR astute glasses.

"I deliberation removing the Vision Pro enactment was the close call, arsenic Apple shifts resources toward astute glasses with greater mass-market potential," writes Kuo. Kuo says that the Vision products roadmap that helium shared successful June 2025 is nary longer a utile notation due to the fact that of the large changes that Apple has made to its plans implicit the past year. Kuo's merchandise timeline primitively featured 7 products, but present it features conscionable 2 that are inactive relevant.

Kuo believes the AI astute glasses volition vessel successful 2027, portion the display-equipped augmented world glasses with "optical waveguides" won't travel retired until 2029 astatine the earliest. Optical waveguides brace a micro-display with waveguides that usher the representation to the user's eyes. Lenses stay transparent, truthful the virtual contented looks similar it's overlaid connected the existent satellite view.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman weighed in connected Kuo's study and said the Vision Air was discontinued successful October 2025, the show glasses meant to brace with a Mac were sunset successful January 2025, and AI astute glasses volition motorboat astatine the extremity of 2027.

While Kuo does not judge Apple is moving connected immoderate mentation of a Vision Pro, Gurman claims Apple has a Vision Pro 2 "in testing" but the class is "on ice." Earlier this week, Gurman besides said Apple is moving connected a cheaper, lighter Vision Pro, but the instrumentality is improbable to motorboat earlier precocious 2028 oregon 2029.

John Ternus is acceptable to instrumentality implicit arsenic Apple's CEO connected September 1, 2026. Current Apple CEO Tim Cook volition stay connected arsenic Executive Chairman.
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