Apple has all but given up on the Vision Pro after the M5 model failed to revitalize interest in the device, MacRumors has learned. Apple updated the Vision Pro with a faster M5 chip and a more comfortable band in October 2025, but there were no other hardware changes, and consumers still weren't interested. The Vision Pro has been criticized for its high price tag and its uncomfortable weight.
I just don’t think a full immersive headset is in the interest of most people for a general computing device. Like there are really just two uses with broad appeal and one Apple doesn’t really care about much and the other will never in 1000 years be in the Apple App Store. The Vision Pro was basically DOA at that point.
Smart glasses with a HUD seems like a better compromise or a low powered, low weight immersive VR device that’s more or less just an Apple Watch until paired with a Mac which holds all the brains of the operation and just streams it to the headset