Vision Pro With M5 Chip Rumored for 2025, Apple Also 'Considering' iPhone-Connected Glasses

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.

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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 the U.S., the current Vision Pro starts at $3,499, and this expensive price has surely limited sales.

"At $3,500, it's not a mass-market product," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, when asked about the Vision Pro in a recent interview. "Right now, it's an early-adopter product. People who want to have tomorrow's technology today—that's who it's for. Fortunately, there's enough people who are in that camp that it's exciting."

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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Top Rated Comments

gpat Avatar
11 months ago
"Considering"?
Apple Vision will never take off without an entry level variant.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Apple Knowledge Navigator Avatar
11 months ago
Surprised they’re only ‘considering’ the connected glasses. Most would likely agree that when you have a computer as powerful as an iPhone, it makes sense to offload processing to it.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
frou Avatar
11 months ago
I think they had to get AVP out of the lab to start finding out what real world users do with it. It could have been stuck in development limbo forever otherwise.
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Karnicopia Avatar
11 months ago
They could just be slow playing the glasses so Samsung and google don’t beat them to the punch. I think that’s kind of a no brainer for apple to make glasses that don’t have a lot of onboard processing but a lot of the iPhone sensors and a wireless chip like they have been using in AirPods and screens to overlay information which they have with Vision Pro and the iPhone can handle processing. It’s almost assembling parts they already have and I think they would sell a lot if they came in at like 400.

The killer app for me would be putting on a pair and watching a movie with the AirPods providing sound if they could do this well it would be great for travel. Also it may be good for just using your iPhone in general if they can do the interface well you would be able to have a screen similar to a desktop. Wonder if they could do like a finger ring you can use for control so you can make subtle gestures instead of waving your hands around like a wizard.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tubomac Avatar
11 months ago
Too expensive, and if you use it outside, you look like an idiot.
And, by the way, those AR glasses from Meta look much more promising (besides the fact that I hate this company with all my soul).
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Kylo83 Avatar
11 months ago
It needs to be cheaper and have a better FOV
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)