Apple “has simply laid off a whole workforce devoted to VR improvement,” experiences AppleInsider, citing its personal supply. Apple is claimed to have laid off at the least 60 staff from its Apple Imaginative and prescient Group.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman beforehand reported that the Imaginative and prescient Professional workforce was disbanded and its members redistributed throughout different tasks, following the October 2025 refresh of the Imaginative and prescient Professional and the headset’s weak reception.
Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus additionally reportedly signed off on canceling each a second Imaginative and prescient Professional and a less expensive, slimmer “Vision Air,” with Apple’s focus now shifted to sensible glasses. Gurman does not anticipate Apple to launch one other headset earlier than late 2028 on the earliest.
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