Apple's next CEO has reportedly cancelled both the Vision Pro 2 and the Vision Air before either ships.
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple's incoming chief executive scrapped two planned headset products and redirected the spatial computing roadmap toward smart glasses instead. Apple now has two glasses launches on the books: one expected in 2027 and another in 2029. Neither headset had been publicly announced, so this is a strategy reversal Apple will never have to acknowledge out loud.
The shift from headsets to glasses suggests that whoever now leads Apple has concluded the strap-it-to-your-face approach isn't a viable mass product — and has decided to say so with a cancelled roadmap rather than a quiet delay. Meta reached a similar conclusion years ago, leaning into its Ray-Ban smart glasses collaboration while its Quest headset line remained a niche enthusiast product. Apple pulling back before committing further to Vision Pro-style hardware is at least an honest read of where consumer appetite sits.
What those smart glasses will actually do — whether they're a wearable speaker with a logo or something with genuine AR capability — is the part this report doesn't answer, and probably the only part that matters.