If a questionable rumor is to be believed, the next version of the Apple Vision Pro could come out in 2026 and cost half the price of the first model.
Apple Vision Pro at Apple Park
Apple is expected to be working on creating successive versions of the Apple Vision Pro, following its introduction to the market. Speculation about the next model continues, with unreliable claims about the second-generation model.
According to a published in X by @Revegnus1 on Friday, the second version of Apple Vision Pro will arrive in 2026.
The price of the headphones will supposedly range between $1,500 and $2,500. If true, this could make the headphones cost less than half the $3,500 price of the first-generation model at the lower end of the range.
The tweeter adds that he is entering SeeYa’s Chinese supply chain. Samples of chain components are said to have already been sent to Apple for evaluation.
SK Hynix and Samsung are reportedly supplying LLW DRAM for the device. LLW is Low Latency Wide I/O DRAM, a form of memory that offers 128 GB/s of bandwidth per module.
Something questionable
The tweeter’s statement is suspicious in several ways. For starters, the account is only a few days old, so it has no real history to judge the accuracy of the rumors.
That being said, since its introduction, the account has managed to make several leaks and rumor posts in a short space of time. Most of the claims are about Apple, although there is some discussion about Android and Samsung.
There is also a possibility that this is a previous leak called Revegnus or @Tech_Reve, which was the source of many rumors about Apple products. The @Tech_Reve account previously made fairly reasonable claims about Apple’s unit shipments and discussed TSMC’s 2nm process.
The @Tech_reve account has since been deactivated on X, leading to the theory that the @Revegnus1 account could be a return of the leaker. But still, there is no guarantee that it is the same leaker and not someone else using the same name as a quick way to gain authority.
Other rumors and speculation regarding the Apple Vision Pro follow-up from leakers with a substantial track record also point to a possible update as soon as summer 2025, although possibly as late as 2026.
This means that the leaker’s release date seems plausible, but certainly not in terms of price.
There have also been claims that a cheaper model of headphones is also in the works, which could appear around the same time frame.
However, even this consumer version could shave only hundreds of dollars off the price through component changes. A report from October proposed that a significantly refined consumer headset could be cheaper, but would be around $2,000.
The first generation of the Apple Vision Pro is also extremely expensive for Apple to produce. Estimates from the so-called “bill of materials” from February put the cost of components at about $1,542 per headset.
Unless Apple has made significant progress in cost savings, halving the price of the “Pro” model seems unlikely if the consumer version can’t do the same.
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