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Almost every day. Meanwhile my quest pro gathers a lot of dust. The AVP as a screen is just so much more comfortable and productive for me and nothing beats it for entertainment. It also just still feels like a really great user experience and I was genuinely sad to see the project sunsetted.

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The sunsetting rumors are almost certainly untrue. See https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/on_the_future_of_apples_v... for example.

Just yesterday they announced a new OS with a number of interesting new features, like custom environments, improved click-with-your-eyes-controls (Dwell Control), a bunch more: https://www.apple.com/os/visionos/

That’s very exciting! Thank you for the reference!

Two out of the three links in this post are from less than a week ago and paint a much less optimistic picture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467606

That is very depressing. Can anyone make something up that will cheer me up? An LLM hallucination would do just fine.

"Apple is now focused on its rival to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2027, and a “display-equipped AR/XR smart glasses device powered by optical waveguides” in 2029, Kuo says."

seems like basically Vision Pro is going to become Vision XR. All roads lead to Rome.

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