TECH NEWS – New rumors suggest that the Cupertino-based company could lower the price of the cheaper edition of the AR headset in a number of ways, but they’ll have to make a number of compromises.

The successor to the Apple Vision Pro is likely to be released in the second half of 2025 or 2026 with the new M5 chip, and it won’t be without generative artificial intelligence to provide an even better user experience. Except that, like the $3500 base model, it won’t appeal to a large audience because of the price, and presumably this successor will be at least $3500, if not more.

Apple is aware of this and will try to release a cheaper model next year. This one will not have two micro OLED panels with 4K resolution, and this could be an area where the Cupertino company can lower the price. Earlier, Apple received a sample product from Japan Display with a pixel density of 1500 PPI, a far cry from the Apple Vision Pro’s 3386 PPI. The specs of Japan Display’s display were not detailed in Bloomberg editor Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, but he did estimate a price at which the cheaper headset could be available:

“As I’ve reported, the Vision Products Group is working on at least four new devices. I expect a lower-end Vision headset to be available as early as next year, followed by a second-generation Vision Pro with a faster chip in 2026. The lower-end model would cost about $2,000 and likely use a lower-end processor and cheaper materials. It would also lack EyeSight, a gee-whiz feature that displays a user’s eyes on the outside of the headset. With the lower price tag, Apple expects to sell at least twice as many as the Vision Pro. But that’s not saying much,” Gurman wrote.

The cheaper model would likely feature the A18 Pro chipset, which has similar multi-core performance to the M1, and since the M2 isn’t much faster than the M1, it could be a logical choice. We’ll see what turns out to be true.

Source: WCCFTech