The Vision Pro got an upgrade in 2025, but its proposition is still largely the same as the original version.
Apple debuted the Vision Proa $3,499 VR headset, in 2024. It’s an odd device in the company’s lineup, being both incredibly cutting-edge and having a very niche appeal. Rumors about future versions are mixed, suggesting Apple will likely pursue AR smart glasses, competing with those from Meta and Google, rather than another headset.
But the company still sells the Vision Pro, and for the folks who own one, there’s a lot Apple can do to improve it. One of those Vision Pro wearers is CNET’s Principal Writer Scott Stein, who thinks VisionOS 27 might be the key to unleashing the headset’s full potential and solving some of its current limitations.
“While AirPods connect with it, and Macs can extend monitors or even stream Mac apps to the headset, iPhones, iPads and Watches are strangely left out, except for casting iPhone/iPad screens via AirPlay,” Scott writes in his VisionOS 27 preview story.
He also thinks that the device with the smallest screen in the company’s lineup might be the most important one for VisionOS 27 to support.
“The Apple Watch is maybe the most egregious piece left out: It’s literally a wristworn control panel with motion tracking, and it could be a brilliant interface with the Vision Pro if Apple let it,” he exclaims.
Read Scott’s full VisionOS 27 story for all the things he thinks Apple should do.