Tim Cook: Apple Continues To Be "Very Focused" on visionOS

Tim Prepare dinner says that Apple continues to be “very targeted” on visionOS.

“That is an space that we actually consider in”, Prepare dinner advised traders throughout Apple’s fiscal Q3 2025 earnings name this week.

“I used to be thrilled with the discharge from the workforce on visionOS 26. It consists of many issues in it, like Spatial Widgets to allow customers to customise their digital house. The Personas took an enormous enhance, they’re far more lifelike.
And naturally there’s new enterprise APIs for firms as effectively. And as Kevan talked about in his opening remarks, we’re seeing these issues resonate out with CAE and different prospects.
And so we proceed to be very targeted on it. And I don’t need to get into the roadmap on it, however that is an space that we actually consider in!”

With a beginning worth of $3500, pushed by its use of costly and supply-constrained 4K micro-OLED shows, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional was by no means going to be a breakout mass market hit. And Apple appears conscious of this, given the product’s title and Tim Prepare dinner’s previous feedback.

Again in October, for instance, Prepare dinner mentioned this about Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional to The Wall Road Journal:

“At $3,500, it’s not a mass-market product”
“Proper now, it’s an early-adopter product. Individuals who need to have tomorrow’s expertise at the moment—that’s who it’s for. Thankfully, there’s sufficient people who find themselves in that camp that it’s thrilling.”

visionOS 2.2 Brings Ultrawide Mac Digital Show

The Broad and Ultrawide modes for Mac Digital Show have now arrived for all Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional homeowners in visionOS 2.2.

Additional, Apple additionally considerably improved visionOS since Imaginative and prescient Professional’s launch, with a gentle stream of software program updates.

The primary characteristic replace arrived in visionOS 1.1, Spatial Personas. This prolonged the system’s real looking avatars from a 2D rectangle container into true 3D house, a step-change for telepresence expertise.

In September final 12 months, Apple launched visionOS 2, the primary main replace.

visionOS 2 introduced hand gestures for opening the primary menu and management middle, the flexibility to show any photograph right into a spatial photograph, improved hand monitoring and scene understanding, WebXR by default in Safari, the flexibility to AirPlay your iPhone or iPad to a window, a Bora Bora digital atmosphere, the flexibility to see your bodily keyboard, mouse help, visitor consumer enhancements, static 3D object monitoring, practice help for Journey Mode, Reside Captions, new developer options, and uncooked digital camera entry for enterprise.

Then, visionOS 2.2 in December introduced Broad and Ultrawide modes for Mac Digital Show, letting you view your Mac on a digital Broad side ratio display screen, and even an enveloping panoramic Ultrawide display screen. The Ultrawide mode has 10K horizontal decision, as in case you have two 5K screens aspect by aspect, made doable due to foveation. Additional, with visionOS 2.2 the audio out of your Mac is now routed to Imaginative and prescient Professional, whereas beforehand it nonetheless performed via the Mac.

Most lately, in March Apple launched visionOS 2.4. It introduced Apple Intelligence, a Spatial Gallery app, an iPhone app for distant installs, and a brand new iPhone/iPad-driven visitor circulation.

In coming months, Apple is about to launch the most important Imaginative and prescient Professional replace but, visionOS 26.

visionOS 26 will convey PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers & Logitech Muse stylus help, considerably extra real looking Personas, spatial Widgets, 90Hz hand monitoring, volumetric Spatial Scenes, native SharePlay, Spatial Shopping in Safari, native 180° & 360° video help, and far far more.

Later this 12 months, Apple reportedly additionally plans to refresh the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset with an M4 chip, up from the present M2 chip, in addition to a extra comfy strap.

The present Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional makes use of the M2 chipset. Apple claims M4 has a 50% extra highly effective CPU and 4 occasions extra highly effective GPU than M2, suggesting the M4 Imaginative and prescient Professional may ship a major efficiency enhance, even with out the M5. The Neural Engine can also be greater than twice as highly effective, which may improve the headset’s laptop imaginative and prescient capabilities.

This launch is more likely to be a comparatively minor {hardware} refresh. In accordance with provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple plans to launch a far cheaper and lighter headset which he tentatively calls ‘Apple Imaginative and prescient Air’.

In accordance with Kuo, Apple Imaginative and prescient Air shall be over 40% lighter than at the moment’s Imaginative and prescient Professional, and have a “considerably cheaper price level”.
He claims that this weight and worth discount shall be achieved, at the very least partially, through the use of A-series chipset (particularly, the one additionally set for use within the iPhone 19 Professional), fewer sensors, plastic as a substitute of glass, and magnesium as a substitute of aluminum.

These particulars line up with what Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has beforehand reported. Earlier than Imaginative and prescient Professional was even revealed, Gurman reported that Apple was engaged on a less expensive mannequin with an A-series chip, and he later mentioned that it is “probably” to not have the EyeSight lenticular show, which Imaginative and prescient Professional makes use of to point out a rendered model of your eyes to individuals close by.

As at all times although, we should always warning that there is no assure that these stories are correct, and Apple’s plans may change at any time.