Apple Vision Pro is clearly a first-gen product. Expensive, flawed, limited and impressive. Much of what it needs to really become a mass-market device will need new hardware that is lighter, more affordable, and more fully featured. But that’s not to say that Apple should be content with aiming its next big push at Apple Vision Air or Apple Vision Pro 2. There are so many software changes that would make this a much better overall product, some of which can be done in the next few weeks or months, others that might need to be a part of visionOS 2.
Apple has already released visionOS 1.1, but its improvements are minor at best, and don’t address some of the biggest pain points and missed opportunities of Apple’s new headset. Here are some of the software-related improvements