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In summary:Macworld reports Apple has halted development of a cheaper Vision Pro headset, with Samsung Display ending work on a cost-effective OLED screen component.Apple is now prioritizing smart glasses development expected to launch next year, shifting away from the budget headset project that wasn\u2019t anticipated until after 2028.The current Vision Pro\u2019s expensive high-resolution displays remain a major cost barrier, making an affordable alternative increasingly unlikely.<\/p>\n
The prospect of Apple launching a cheaper version of its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset grows ever more remote, with the news that the company has halted work on a new OLED screen for the rumored product.<\/p>\n
Citing sources in the display industry, Korean site The Elec<\/a> claims (via Google Translate) that Samsung Display \u201chas finalized an internal decision to terminate the development project for displays for the Apple XR [extended reality] device early this coming September.\u201d It\u2019s not clear from the report what the impetus behind the decision was, but presumably it\u2019s because Apple has moved on from its cheaper headset project.<\/p>\n That timeframe, by the way, appears to refer to when Samsung Display will completely stop working on the project, having (in the words of one industry official) \u201centered the winding-up phase early this year.\u201d It certainly doesn\u2019t refer to when the Apple budget headset will or would have come out, which wasn\u2019t expected to happen until after 2028.<\/p>\n The Vision Pro headset, which just received a $200 price hike, features two very high-res internal micro-OLED displays, and these contribute heavily to its brutal price tag. Samsung Display has been working on a method for constructing OLEDs on a glass substrate that can, in The Elec\u2019s words, \u201cdrastically lower\u201d manufacturing costs and would therefore have been perfect for a budget successor to the Vision Pro.<\/p>\n But Apple\u2019s appetite for that project, for various reasons, has diminished. As long ago as last October, it was reported that the cheaper (and hopefully lighter) Vision Pro had been shelved<\/a> in order to accelerate the company\u2019s work on smart glasses<\/a>. Those glasses are now expected<\/a> to arrive next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary:Macworld reports Apple has halted development of a cheaper Vision Pro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-515836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}