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Images of parts designed for an unreleased all-black Apple Vision headset have been leaked online, courtesy of X account @LusiRoy8.

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The image shows what appear to be power strap and audio pod parts that look identical to Apple's existing Apple Vision Pro hardware, except with a dark finish that is not commercially available. The account that shared the images claims that the parts are for a "upcoming" second-generation Apple Vision Pro in black.

It's not the first time we've seen black versions of hardware related to Apple's headset, with images surfacing of similar parts last year. The leaker of those earlier images claimed that Apple has been testing a thinner and lighter mixed-reality headset referred to internally as "Vision Air," featuring a Midnight-colored exterior and reduced weight achieved by switching several structural components and the battery enclosure to titanium.

Apple was widely expected to launch both a lower-cost headset, tentatively dubbed "Vision Air," and a redesigned second-generation Vision Pro. However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported in October that the company had paused development of all Vision headsets to focus on accelerating work on AI-powered smart glasses.

Gurman recently resisted reports that Apple has walked away from the headset entirely. The reporter says Apple hasn't fully abandoned the Vision Pro, but anyone hoping for a successor will be waiting at least two more years.

Indeed, Apple's smart glasses project is now the focus, and former Vision Products Group members have been reassigned to that team, as well as shoring up its Siri chatbot development. Apple is also busy working on other AI wearables such as the AirPods with cameras and a planned AI pendant.

Apple refreshed the Vision Pro in October 2025 with an updated model featuring an M5 chip.

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lars666
16 weeks ago
This site told me that the AVP is officially dead and now this.
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Mrkevinfinnerty
16 weeks ago
All black will make this so much better when wearing this out on a date or picking up the kids from school
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headlessmike
16 weeks ago

It was called graphite but my 1997 Power Macintosh 5500 was very black.



And before that we even had the Macintosh TV from 1993 sporting a 32 MHz 68030 and a built in TV-tuner.



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knappeduivel
16 weeks ago

Also not the first time that Apple has debuted an all-black product either. That title went to the classic Black MacBook 💻 back in 2006:
It was called graphite but my 1997 Power Macintosh 5500 was very black.




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Justin Cymbal
16 weeks ago

The account that shared the images claims that the parts are for a "upcoming" second-generation Apple Vision Pro in black.

It's not the first time we've seen black versions of hardware related to Apple's headset, with images surfacing of similar parts last year ('https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/07/more-black-vision-pro-parts-surface-online/')
Also not the first time that Apple has debuted an all-black product either. That title went to the classic Black MacBook 💻 back in 2006:

https://512pixels.net/2015/02/future-classics-the-black-macbook/


Gurman recently resisted ('https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/11/new-vision-pro-wont-arrive-at-least-two-years/') reports ('https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/29/apple-vision-pro-m5-flop/') that Apple has walked away from the headset entirely. The reporter says Apple hasn't fully abandoned the Vision Pro, but anyone hoping for a successor will be waiting at least two more years
I highly doubt that Apple would abandon future development. I was actually at this⬇️Miami Store a month after it opened (in February, 2025) and was able to try it out there in the new demo room - that are frequently integrated in all of their new stores over the past 2 years. When I tried it out, the capabilities were actually quite impressive, so much so that even my Dad who was with me in Miami, wanted to eventually get one for himself so that he could watch the ‘spacial’ videos that he now takes (that can be captured with iPhone 15 Pro or later) and then watch them on the Vision Pro

https://www.uploadvr.com/new-apple-miami-store-includes-vision-pro-area/

So if this was actually able to get my Dad interested in buying one, that probably says a lot about its technical potential, considering he’s the last person to say something like that, having zero technical knowledge and/or interest in such a product 😅
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svish
16 weeks ago
Probably prototypes that will probably never make it to market. If ever a newer version of Vision Pro launches, it will likely have minimal changes and should retain the white color.
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