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Apple's mixed-reality headset, blending passthrough video with AR/VR apps via its visionOS platform and custom M-series chips, first released in early 2024.
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Meta's $1,299 VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams and rest on the ears, according to a Verge hands-on. The design is aimed at people who turn down headsets because of the strap or the sealed-off view, though it does little for buyers put off by the price.
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John Ternus wants Apple releasing products year-round, beyond its fall and spring events, with a leaner staff, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Developers and accessory makers who plan around those two dates face a looser calendar and new categories that may not last.
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Apple CEO John Ternus wants new products released throughout the year instead of at a few big annual events, according to Bloomberg. Staff expect the change to come slowly, so the event calendar that accessory makers, developers and IT buyers plan around holds for now.
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Apple CEO John Ternus has cut hardware program managers, including about six directors, to ship more products more often, Bloomberg reports. The engineers who remain are the likeliest people to absorb the timeline and coordination work those roles did.
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Meta put its Muse assistant on every pair of glasses and headset it showed at Connect, led by $1,300 VR Glasses due this spring. For a team buyer the lineup is separate devices for separate jobs. The evidence on how people use Meta's hardware is still thin.
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Apple's Vision team is exploring a Meta-style waist-worn compute puck among four N224 headset concepts, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Senior leaders prefer an all-in-one design for a headset that is not due before late 2028 and may never launch.
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The macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate names J490 and J491, a B525 HomePod mini and a multi-sensor J229. That is useful for planning, but it dates nothing by itself.
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Meta's $1,299.99 VR Glasses weigh about 100 grams with the computing in a tethered puck, and they do not ship until spring 2027. A $149.99 FDA-cleared hearing aid activation arrives this year.
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AppleInsider says an entire VR team is gone. Apple has not commented, but its money has been moving toward camera-and-Siri glasses for more than a year.
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Bloomberg says 100 roles went from Vision Pro and 100 from Siri and software. Both cuts land on work the next two products do not need.
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Cook's successor spent 25 years making hardware fit together, and he inherits an iPhone event next week plus a Siri rebuild that runs on Gemini. The pairing says what Apple now thinks its job is.
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Meta's VR glasses weigh 100 grams to the Quest 3's 515 and run the full Quest catalog off a phone-sized compute puck, Gizmodo reports. XR teams keep their Quest apps but now have to design for a 70-degree field of view and for input by hand and eye.
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Meta plans to ship its Codec Avatar holograms, first shown in 2019, on VR glasses due in spring 2027 as a rival to Apple's Vision Pro Personas. A Gizmodo reviewer found them convincing, though appearing in full body first takes a phone scan of several minutes.
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Meta priced its glasses-shaped VR headset at $1,299 and moved the processor into a puck you carry in your pocket. Shipping is promised for what the company calls Spring 2027. That means March 2027 at the earliest.
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Meta plans to ship the glasses in spring 2027 at $1,299, with 5K micro-OLED lenses on the face and a three-hour puck in the pocket. XR teams have about six months to make their apps work without a trigger.
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Meta's two-piece VR Glasses go on like eyewear and take the comfort objection away from anyone deciding about headsets at work. ZDNET's demo found the displays and the surface typing to be the weaker parts.
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Meta's new mixed reality device puts the computer in a pocket puck and the input in a pinch of thumb and forefinger. Everything in the Quest catalogue still runs, and the rest of the porting work falls to developers.
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Meta's spring launch price of $1,299 puts 100 grams on the face and a 300-gram compute puck on a cable, and the published evidence for wearing it through a working day is one 30-minute hands-on by PCMag.
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Meta's new VR Glasses leave the display and sensors on the face and move the processor, the memory and the battery onto a wired puck in the pocket. The Verge tried them at Meta's campus this week.
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The glasses reach 100 grams because the computer rides in a pocket. On paper the panels beat Apple's. PCMag's reviewer still saw graininess in video and in passthrough during a 30-minute session.
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