Apple is planning a “feature-packed launch” for visionOS 3.0, experiences Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says that Imaginative and prescient Professional’s working system—and never new XR {hardware}—goes to be a spotlight at this 12 months’s World Broad Developer Convention (WWDC).
Regardless of its excessive worth and premium enchantment, Apple hasn’t slowed down software program updates for Imaginative and prescient Professional, which launched in February 2024 for $3,500.
Just lately, the Cupertino tech large has launched a number of productiveness options, together with the long-promised ultra-wide Mac Digital Show and the total suite of Apple Intelligence options in developer preview.
Now, Gurman experiences Apple is gearing as much as showcase visionOS 3.0 at WWDC, which generally takes place in June.
“All indicators are pointing to the corporate’s Imaginative and prescient Merchandise Group shifting its assets to different type components,” Gurman maintains. “However Apple can’t simply let the Imaginative and prescient Professional die out. It has invested an excessive amount of and must hold churning out the system’s visionOS updates (the third version will likely be a reasonably feature-packed launch, I’m advised).”
There’s no indication but what visionOS 3.0 might comprise, though if it’s something like visionOS 2.0, which was introduced at WWDC 2024 final June, builders will seemingly have the ability to go hands-on as quickly because it’s introduced.
That stated, info continues to be skinny. One doable candidate for visionOS 3.0 might deal with the headset’s lack of movement controllers; Gurman reported final month Apple is at present working with Sony to undertake PSVR 2’s Sense Controllers as Imaginative and prescient Professional’s formally supported movement controller.
As for {hardware} reveals (or the shortage thereof) at WWDC 2025, Gurman echoes earlier claims made by Apple provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo late final 12 months, who reported that a number of Imaginative and prescient Professional follow-up are at present deliberate.
Gurman notes that Apple is planning a headset containing a brand new M-series chip (probably M5), in addition to cheaper variations of the headset. Opposite to Kuo’s report, which maintains an upgraded M5 model of Imaginative and prescient Professional is coming this 12 months, Gurman claims we gained’t see a follow-up headset from Apple in 2025.
