Apple’s lighter, cheaper successor to the Vision Pro won’t arrive until at least late 2028 or even 2029, effectively putting the entire headset category on ice until then — Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote in his Power On newsletter on May 31. Gurman says Apple must first solve two core problems: develop a slimmer design for the current $3,499 device and significantly lower the cost before it can re-enter this market. Notably, he draws a clear distinction between this successor and the previously rumored „Vision Air“ — which was discontinued in October 2025 and belonged to a different product roadmap.
Some former members of the Vision Products Group have been reassigned to the AI smart glasses team following the Vision Air cancellation, making lightweight AI glasses (targeting a late 2027 launch window) Apple’s current priority in spatial computing. The current Vision Pro was updated to the M5 chip in October 2025 and is not expected to see further hardware iterations before the redesigned successor arrives.