If you’re eagerly awaiting a quick follow-up generation to the Apple Vision Pro, you could be waiting a while.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the second-generation version of the wearable headset is at least 18 months away from launch. Gurman has noted that Apple
In the latest edition of his “Power On” newsletter, Gurman said that Apple is keenly interested in the reasons why customers who choose to return the first-generation Vision Pro headset do so, ultimately passing feedback from retail stores to the company’s headquarters to help perfect the next version of the device.
This effectively rules out the idea of the Vision Pro receiving annual updates similar to products like the iPhone or Apple Watch, and that the device should see an even longer refresh cycle than that of the iPad.
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and market research firm Omdia have previously mentioned a 2027 launch time frame for the second-generation Vision Pro headset. It is said that there could be no hardware updates for the Vision Pro until then, meaning that the Vision Pro might go up to 54 months without a refresh from the announcement of the first generation to the second. Apple is also rumored to be considering the development of a more affordable Vision headset around 2025.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.