Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

A little clickbaity; in favor of a Vision 2.

"... to singularly focus on a cheaper model, The Information reports."

The title is a little misleading.

I felt like I was committing heresy when I told my friends that the vision pro was unlikely to succeed or at least succeed culturally. I'm sure it will pick up some niches just like the meta headset.

The reality is, this is a covid product and covid is over. Regardless of price (outside being extremely cheap) I don't see people even dropping $1500 on this thing. I don't have a single person in my life that has used a VR headset for anything more than beatsaber and the occasional movie. They're sweaty, heavy, and they're just isolating to wear for long periods of time, along with various other edge cases like glasses and eye strain.

There's already a pretty big movement to limit screen time and cut down on technology, and focus on fitness. I think that's why the apple watch is doing so well. I could see something like the ray ban meta glasses taking off, especially with an enhanced siri and some AR. But the vision pro and VR in general feels like a form of nerd sniping that the general public literally doesn't care about other than randomly using it at parties.

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Apple will only release a second "Pro" model when they can make significant advancements over the previous one. Likely we will see a Pro then Air (then Pro...) tick tock cycle for a while as the technology develops