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Nicholas Sutrich

An entire product category isn't doomed just because Apple may have canceled its plans

Comparing Viture One and Viture Pro smart glasses with Xreal Air2 Pro and Solos AirGo 3 in the background.

Over the weekend, we learned that Apple reportedly canceled plans to make a pair of AR glasses that would operate by connecting to a Mac computer. The glasses were seen as a sort of "Apple Vision Lite," as they were powered by the same operating system inside the expensive Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset.

Bloomberg's original report noted that executives weren't impressed with the product, citing performance issues and ever-changing feature requests. These glasses originally required pairing to an iPhone, but that was later changed to a Mac as they drained the phone's battery too fast and required too much processing power for a phone.

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