Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 rumors: Launch date, upgrades, and extra

Keep in mind the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional? Apple’s AR/VR headset launched greater than a yr and a half in the past in early 2024 to a lot fanfare. Since then, nevertheless, there seems to be waning curiosity within the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional as gross sales have plunged for the $3,499 machine.

Nevertheless, Apple is not giving up on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional fairly but.

In reality, the corporate has been onerous at work on a brand new model of the AR/VR set, tentatively titled the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional 2.

There are conflicting stories from two separate reliable sources relating to Apple’s upgraded AR/VR headset. In keeping with analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the brand new Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 can be powered by Apple’s upcoming M5 chipset. Nevertheless, Bloomberg‘s Apple insider Mark Gurman has beforehand reported that the upgraded Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 would use Apple’s most present chipset, the M4. Both manner, although, it can seemingly be a giant improve from the M2 chip that powers the present Imaginative and prescient Professional mannequin alongside the R1 chip.

Along with the upgraded processor, Gurman stories that Apple is engaged on growing the 16 cores within the neural engine of the present Imaginative and prescient Professional, which might make the Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 much more highly effective at finishing AI associated duties.

One other huge improve to the Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 is a extra sensible one: The headstrap. Even the Imaginative and prescient Professional homeowners who just like the headset have complained about how heavy the machine is, particularly when utilizing it for a protracted time period. 

In keeping with a report from Bloomberg‘s Gurman from over the summer season, Apple is engaged on a brand new headstrap that can allow customers to extra simply put on the 1.4 pound machine for longer time intervals. The report says the brand new strap for the Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 would deal with decreasing neck pressure and head ache.

Apple seems to be aiming for a Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 launch by Spring 2026 earlier than shifting in the direction of a less expensive, lighter AR/VR headset to be launched someday in 2027 or later.