Apple is reportedly readying a slight update to its Vision Pro headset, and this will become available “as early as this year”. While it won’t be a major upgrade, it will sport a new chipset, the M4, which will be quite an improvement from the M2 powering the original Vision Pro. It will also get more cores for its Neural Engine.
The new headset will ship with a new strap that will make wearing it for longer periods of time more bearable somehow, by reducing neck strain and head pain. This should improve things without actually making the hardware any lighter.
That will only come in 2027 with a redesigned Vision Pro, which should be significantly lighter. Until then, the model coming this year is meant as a stopgap, keeping Apple relevant in the headset market despite its huge price and comfort issues (that may be alleviated somewhat in the upgraded model).
So far Apple has only sold a few hundred thousand units of the Vision Pro, which is a tiny number for a device that was supposed to be the future of computing. It is, however, hard to be that when you’re a literal strain on people’s heads and necks, not to mention their wallets.