In September of last year supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that the next Vision Pro would have an M5 chip and enter production in late 2025, and he reiterated this claim last week, stating that it would have no other changes besides the chip.
Gurman too referenced an M5 Vision Pro refresh in an April edition of his weekly newsletter, though said that Apple was “looking to go further” than just the chip upgrade, with a “cheaper and lighter” design.
Since i started to use my Pico 4 as a sort of poor mans Vision Pro i really want XR to take off. Even though the GUI is kinda shit, that Snapdragon 865 is severely underpowered, the passthrough is abysmal, the heat and fan noise directly in front of my face is annoying and my UX is cobbled together with sideloaded Android apps(of which only three can be open at the same time). Its still fucking awesome. NGL i really want to start putting some money aside for a future XR device with a decent soc, good passthrough, better OS, highres screens, etc.
But as an old timey nerd its hard to be excited about tech giants trying to get their foot into the next possibly big market to be the dominant force with their walled gardens so they can force ads directly into our eyeballs.
But even with that in mind. If Apple wouldnt be Apple and made a few sensible changes i would easily drop 2000$ on a standalone headset. A desktop grade OS should be integrated and accessible by the XR frontend so you can actually get some shit done without the need for an additional macbook. Drop the ‘premium’ materials and design first approach. Make it as light and comfortable as possible. Yeah and thats about it already? Sure, it would be lovely if they wouldnt upsell ram and storage for five times what they are actually worth. But that would be too much to ask.
It’s either going to be $3,000 or $12,000 depending on Trump’s mood about China.
I assume the title is also suppose to say M5, not M4?
no, the article says Mark Gurman said it’s going to be the M4 chip:
“Now, however, Gurman reports that the Vision Pro refresh will in fact use the existing M4 chip, not M5.”
