Apple downgrades Apple Vision Pro manufacturing forecast

The paradigm shift that Apple wants to introduce with the Apple Vision Pro has only just begun. With the first betas of visonOS in the hands of developers and early users checking out the operating system’s potential, many ideas come to mind about what these new Apple glasses could be used for. However, since Cupertino could have drastically reduced Apple Vision Pro’s first-year shipment and production targets less than a million units sold.

Apple lowers its forecast for the Apple Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro are the new test launched by the big apple to attract attention in the world of augmented reality and virtual reality. The experiences presented at WWDC23 have been confirmed over the weeks after the launch of the first beta of visionOS and the experiences of the privileged few who were able to test them in Apple Park on June 5.

However, the Financial Times assures that Apple It will only manufacture around 400,000 units of these Apple Vision Pros. A number well below the million originally planned. Undoubtedly, the technological challenge of assembling such a device could have lowered expectations, but it also did. the launch forecast of a second generation

with cheaper production. Even if according to this media, the calendar and the dates planned for the launch of the 2nd generation have also been extended in time.

The challenge of producing the glasses lies above all in the dual 4K micro-OLED screen, one for each eye, in addition to the number of cameras and sensors that the Apple Vision Pro contains throughout its structure. And those who are in charge of assembling the whole product is the company Luxshare,

already known to produce certain models of Mac or AirPods. It is believed that Luxshare could offer about 18 million Apple Vision Pro in the coming years, but not in the short term, because at the moment the glasses will only be sold at the beginning of 2024.