Next year Apple will flap out its biggest ware launch since the iPhone : Vision Pro , the ship’s company ’s long - awaited entrance to the motley - reality computer hardware space . But even though the producthasbeen officially unveiled , and we even know the launching toll , Apple has yet to say when it will be released .

During the announcement atWWDC 2023 , Apple told U.S. customers to gestate Vision Pro “ early on next year , ” which many pundit take to mean the leap ; the company has often made major annunciation at a consecrate issue in March or April . ( This would somewhat repeat the launch of the very first Apple Watch , which was announced in September 2014 and then released in April the next year . ) But five months on from WWDC , we still do n’t have a clear idea of when the launching will take place .

While Apple has antecedently released new products in the first month of the twelvemonth , as it did every yr at the Macworld Conference and Expo back in the days when that ran , and as recently as 2023 when it introduced the M2 Pro and M2 Max MacBook Pro in January , it would be unusual for Apple to release pregnant products in the first month of the year , that being a meter when many consumers are still counting the cost of the vacation season . As previously observe Vision Pro isincrediblysignificant for the troupe ’s long - terminal figure prospects . This is the platform that Cupertino hopes will one mean solar day supersede the iPhone .

Article image

listen you , the January launching plan , even get into Gurman ’s data is sound , is no longer happening . As a result of testing and distribution arrangements taking longer than in the first place expected , Vision Pro will now launch “ sometime around March . ” And we ’re back to where we started .

So much for the U.S. launch , anyway . At WWDC Apple made it clear that Vision Pro will initially set in motion in the U.S. only , with other land ( so far not specified ) place to follow “ afterward next year . ” In a JulyreportGurman did propose that the Vision Pro could launch in Canada and the U.K. by the end of 2024 , with Asia and other parts of Europe following “ shortly after ” .