A Cheaper Apple Vision Device, Tethered to iPhone or Mac

I love VR / MR and have been using various headsets, PC based VR like the Meta Rift or the HTC Vive as well as stand-alone devices such as the Meta Quest 1, 2 and 3 as well as the Microsoft Hololens.

Even though I think stand-alone VR is a nice idea, in practice, tethered VR has always proven much better in my eyes as the PC the headset connects to delivers real processing power and the untethered headsets generate heat (in front of your eyes where the processing unit sits) and is much heavier than the tethered headset - two things that makes using them for longer periods, also for work, quite uncomfortable.

I like what I hear about the Apple Vision Pro, but it suffers exactly from the untethered headset issues plus it has a price tag that's just too steep for me.

I therefore welcome the news, that Apple is developing a cheaper version of the Apple Vision Pro headset, codenamed N107, which may (hopefully) require a tethered iPhone or Mac to reduce costs. The N107 is expected to launch by the end of 2025, while the second-generation Vision Pro, codenamed N109, is planned for release by the end of 2026.

Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/24/cheaper-apple-vision-pro-tethered-iphone-mac/