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In summary:
- Macworld reports on leaked images from credible source pipfix showing a potential black Apple Vision Pro, suggesting new color options beyond the current model.
- The black colorway appears attractive but unlikely to address the device’s main challenges of its $3,499 price point and heavy weight.
- Apple may be shifting focus toward developing smart glasses rather than creating a cheaper Vision Pro variant, indicating strategic changes in their AR roadmap.
Almost everyone who tries it agrees that Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset is an impressive piece of tech. The problem is that the downsides–price, weight, lack of a killer application–are too difficult to ignore.
There’s little prospect of Apple fixing those issues in the imminent future, with the company understood to have switched its focus from a lighter and cheaper version of the device to a pair of smart glasses. What we may get is a more cosmetic upgrade: a new colorway.
The leaker known as pipfix, or @LusiRoy8, this week posted to Twitter/X four photos purportedly showing Vision Pro in black. “Apple vision pro black color,” the leaker adds with characteristic brevity, “did you like?”
The photos show close-up details including the device’s speaker grille, headband, control dial, connector port and braided power cable. The device is mostly black and looks very attractive. But is it attractive enough to convince customers to spend $3,499? That’s debatable.
We should add that this isn’t by any means a new rumor, but merely further evidence for an existing one. As long ago as April 2025 the leaker Kosutami claimed Apple would release a second Vision Pro model in a black which would look like “graphite dark blue,” and an image associated with this made the rounds in December of that year. It was just the strap for the product.
Pipfix themselves posted photos of the alleged black Vision Pro late last month along with the caption “Apple vison [sic] pro 2 upcoming black color.”
Are these images likely to be legitimate? Fairly likely, yes. Pipfix, as AppleInsider notes, has previously posted an accurate prediction of the iPhone 17 Pro’s orange and blue color finishes.
What’s more, releasing a sleek black version of an Apple product which was previously only available in white tends to be a winner: see the iPod nano and the iMac Pro. So it’s virtually certain that Apple has at least explored the idea of a black Vision Pro. Whether that will translate into an actual shipped product is harder to say.
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