More All-Black Apple Vision Pro Parts Surface Online

[MacRumors]

Images of parts designed for an unreleased all-black Apple Vision headset have been leaked online, courtesy of X account @LusiRoy8.

The image shows what appear to be power strap and audio pod parts that look identical to Apple's existing Apple Vision Pro hardware, except with a dark finish that is not commercially available. The account that shared the images claims that the parts are for a "upcoming" second-generation Apple Vision Pro in black.

It's not the first time we've seen black versions of hardware related to Apple's headset, with images surfacing of similar parts last year. The leaker of those earlier images claimed that Apple has been testing a thinner and lighter mixed-reality headset referred to internally as "Vision Air," featuring a Midnight-colored exterior and reduced weight achieved by switching several structural components and the battery enclosure to titanium.

Apple was widely expected to launch both a lower-cost headset, tentatively dubbed "Vision Air," and a redesigned second-generation Vision Pro. However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported in October that the company had paused development of all Vision headsets to focus on accelerating work on AI-powered smart glasses.

Gurman recently resisted reports that Apple has walked away from the headset entirely. The reporter says Apple hasn't fully abandoned the Vision Pro, but anyone hoping for a successor will be waiting at least two more years.

Indeed, Apple's smart glasses project is now the focus, and former Vision Products Group members have been reassigned to that team, as well as shoring up its Siri chatbot development. Apple is also busy working on other AI wearables such as the AirPods with cameras and a planned AI pendant.

Apple refreshed the Vision Pro in October 2025 with an updated model featuring an M5 chip.

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[Yourbigpalal83]

Im thinking 1 of two things is going to happen. As prices and parts come down we will eventually get a more affordable Vision Pro or Vision Pro Light, but that will be focused as a full VR Headset. NOT something you wear out in public. I see them ditching the front screen, aluminum parts (unless needed for heating) and just getting the price where its more afforable but not nessessarly more powerful. As for smart glasses, first gen is just going to be speakers and cameras, the later high end glasses will have screens in them, but not for another year or 2 down the road. Eventually the two products will merge in some way but not for another 5-10 years or so. Problem is battery and heating. Thats the choke point. You can have the greatest glasses on the planet with high end processing and everything, but without battery life or thermals to keep it cool while working, your only going to get 10 minuets or so of use out of it!

 

[Justin Cymbal]

The account that shared the images claims that the parts are for a "upcoming" second-generation Apple Vision Pro in black.

It's not the first time we've seen black versions of hardware related to Apple's headset, with images surfacing of similar parts last year

Also not the first time that Apple has debuted an all-black product either. That title went to the classic Black MacBook 💻 back in 2006:

Future Classics: the black MacBook

In my “Future Classics” series, I try to guess what current-era Apple products may become collectable in the future. My hobbies are admittedly weird. Announced in 2006 to replace the iBook G4, the MacBook was an entirely new machine. Powered by an Intel processor, the notebook featured a...

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Gurman recently resisted reports that Apple has walked away from the headset entirely. The reporter says Apple hasn't fully abandoned the Vision Pro, but anyone hoping for a successor will be waiting at least two more years

I highly doubt that Apple would abandon future development. I was actually at this⬇️Miami Store a month after it opened (in February, 2025) and was able to try it out there in the new demo room - that are frequently integrated in all of their new stores over the past 2 years. When I tried it out, the capabilities were actually quite impressive, so much so that even my Dad who was with me in Miami, wanted to eventually get one for himself so that he could watch the ‘spacial’ videos that he now takes (that can be captured with iPhone 15 Pro or later) and then watch them on the Vision Pro

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So if this was actually able to get my Dad interested in buying one, that probably says a lot about its technical potential, considering he’s the last person to say something like that, having zero technical knowledge and/or interest in such a product 😅

 

[JPack]

Gurman recently resisted reports that Apple has walked away from the headset entirely. The reporter says Apple hasn't fully abandoned the Vision Pro, but anyone hoping for a successor will be waiting at least two more years.

Sure, it's not technically abandoned, but shelved indefinitely.

Basically, anything that covers the eyes isn't socially acceptable. Apple sells mainstream products to mainstream consumers, not loners. Apple tried to solve the problem with the outer display, but obviously it was unacceptable.

The next Vision Pro or Air won't come out until it's socially acceptable to wear goggles. And that day may never come, which is why Apple is pivoting to glasses.

Black, white, or gray doesn't matter if the device itself is socially unacceptable. That's probably why Apple never bothered to release it in black.