Vision Pro

Vision Pro will be tracked here.

Updates

June 28, 2023: Sony and Qualcomm sign multi-year smartphone agreement.

June 28, 2023: SONY and Apple partner on Vision Pro.

• Apple had targeted 500,000 units/year
• Sony can only supply lenses for 300,000 units/year
• Sony also supplies cameras for Vision Pro.

Original Post

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Google has scrapped its latest augmented reality (AR) headset that was meant to rival headsets from Apple and Meta, according to reports.

The search giant’s ‘Project Iris’ was abandoned earlier this year, Insider reported, making it the second major set of smart glasses to be ditched following Google Glass.

The latest AR glasses were first teased last year at Google I/O, with a video showing wearers using the device to translate conversations in real-time.

“What we’re working on is technology that enables us to break down language barriers,” Max Spear, a product manager at Google, said in the video.

“Making access to information just instant and intuitive, and by doing that technology fades into the background.”

Since the glasses were teased, Apple has unveiled its Vision Pro headset and Meta has shown off its latest Quest 3 goggles, which will be available later this year.

Google’s aborted project comes eight years after the firm discontinued its Glass smart glasses for consumers, and just months after it stopped producing the enterprise version.

It follows the departure of Clay Bavor, Google’s chief of augmented and virtual reality, with the company’s focus now switching to AR software rather than hardware.