Der Artikel kann nur mit aktiviertem JavaScript dargestellt werden. Bitte aktiviere JavaScript in deinem Browser und lade die Seite neu.
Apple chief executive John Ternus says Vision Pro is “the early days of a long journey”. He said it on the French programme Clique, in an interview CANAL+ published on YouTube on September 18, and he answers in English. Asked whether the headset is a test, a flop or the first step towards whatever a computer becomes next, he reaches for computing history rather than a roadmap.
visionOS 27, which arrived on September 14, turns panoramas into spatial scenes on Vision Pro. Image: Apple
“You know, Vision Pro, to me, is an amazing device, right, it’s an absolutely amazing device, but I think of it as, like, the early days of computers,” Ternus says. “It is the early days of a long journey, that’s how I feel about Vision Pro.” The exchange with host Mouloud Achour starts 27 minutes and 30 seconds in, where Clique marks the interview’s Vision Pro chapter.
Ternus points to surgeons, not to a roadmap
He splits the headset’s users in two: the early adopters who love it and use it, and the professionals who have found a job it does better than the equipment they had. “Surgeons are starting to use it in surgery, because it’s just a fundamentally better tool for them than a monitor,” he says. He also points to film production, where he says people use Vision Pro for set development, and says he sees a “very bright future” for the device.
He names no hospital, no surgical team and no figure for how many clinicians own one. There is no successor, no date, no price and no sales number anywhere in the answer.
Apple cut jobs on the Siri and Vision Pro teams in August
Bloomberg reported on August 21 that Apple was cutting jobs across the teams responsible for Siri and the Vision Pro headset, and in its Intelligent Systems Experience software group, as part of an effort to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence. Apple has published no headcount for the cuts, and Ternus does not mention them.
visionOS 27 arrived on September 14. Apple says Siri AI runs on Vision Pro with M2 and later, with only the customisable voice limited to the M5 model, and the update brought Siri AI to Vision Pro in the EU while iPhone owners there are still waiting.
Vision Pro gets under three minutes of a 36-minute interview
Most of the conversation goes elsewhere: to the iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable, to Siri AI, to privacy, and to children and screens. The Vision Pro chapter runs from 27:30 to 30:13 of a video that lasts 36 minutes and 21 seconds.
The organisation behind the headset has changed around it. Paul Meade, Apple’s Vision Pro chief, left for OpenAI’s hardware unit in June.
Apple’s leadership page lists Ternus as chief executive and a member of the board. He joined the product design team in 2001, became a vice president of hardware engineering in 2013, and joined the executive team in 2021 as senior vice president of hardware engineering.
Nothing about the hardware changed on September 18. What exists now that did not exist before is a recording of Apple’s chief executive saying the headset is near the start of something long.
Note: Links to online stores in articles can be so-called affiliate links. If you buy through this link, MIXED receives a commission from the provider. For you the price does not change.