Apple's plans for AR glasses may not have been scrapped entirely
Apple may have set aside its rumored plans for Mac-tethered augmented reality glasses, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's done with AR glasses altogether. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman — who reported last month that Apple was working on, but ultimately shelved, an AR glasses project — sources have told him that 'Apple's long-term goal of standalone AR glasses remains intact.' Rather than creating a 'stopgap product' in the meantime that would need to be connected to a Mac, though, Gurman reports that the team is taking a slower, more cautious approach.
It'll instead 'keep working on underlying technology — like screens and silicon' to make a standalone device work, he writes. As described in earlier reports, the AR glasses Apple is rumored to be developing wouldn't be another headset-style device like the Vision Pro, but would likely take a form more like the Xreal One, which look like regular glasses.

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