{"id":575875,"date":"2026-08-21T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575875\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:00:12","slug":"apple-reportedly-lays-off-60-vision-products-group-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575875\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Reportedly Lays Off 60 Vision Products Group Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Apple-Vision-Pro-Dual-Knit-Band.jpg\"   alt=\"Apple Vision Pro Dual Knit Band\" width=\"160\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1060033\"\/>Apple &#8220;has just laid off an entire team dedicated to VR development,&#8221; reports <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/08\/20\/layoffs-in-apples-vision-products-group-prove-slow-progress-in-spatial-computing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AppleInsider<\/a>, citing its own source. Apple is said to have laid off at least 60 employees from its Apple Vision Group. <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s Mark Gurman previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/03\/20\/siri-leadership-shakeup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that the Vision Pro team was disbanded and its members redistributed across other projects, following the October 2025 refresh of the Vision Pro and the headset&#8217;s weak reception. <\/p>\n<p>Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/03\/kuo-vision-pro-successors-nixed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> signed off on canceling both a second Vision Pro and a cheaper, slimmer &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/10\/01\/apple-ai-smart-glasses-focus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Air<\/a>,&#8221; with Apple&#8217;s focus now shifted to smart glasses. Gurman doesn&#8217;t expect Apple to launch another headset before late 2028 at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>Popular Stories<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/08\/10\/apple-seeds-fifth-visionos-27-beta-to-developers\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Seeds Fifth visionOS 27 Beta to Developers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple today provided developers with the fifth beta of an upcoming visionOS 27 update for testing purposes, with the beta coming two weeks after Apple released the fourth beta.&#13;visionOS 27 can be installed by opening the Settings app, going to Software Updates, and opting into Beta Updates.&#13;visionOS 27 introduces Siri AI, the smarter and more capable version of Siri that&#8217;s similar in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/07\/27\/apple-releases-visionos-26-6\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Releases visionOS 26.6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple today released visionOS 26.6, the sixth update to the visionOS 26 operating system that launched in September. visionOS 26.6 comes over two months after Apple released visionOS 26.5.&#13;\u200cvisionOS 26\u200c.6 can be downloaded on all Vision Pro headsets by navigating to the Settings app, selecting the General section, and choosing the Software Update option. To install an update, the Vision&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/08\/05\/apple-vision-pro-speeds-up-surgery\/\" class=\"related\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Vision Pro Speeds Up Surgery by Almost 20%<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surgeons who wore an Apple Vision Pro as their primary display during a tear duct procedure finished operations 19% faster than surgeons using a traditional monitor, according to a peer-reviewed study by UC San Diego.&#13;The study, published in the journal AJO International (via iPhone in Canada), looked at 32 endoscopic surgeries to clear blocked tear ducts. 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