I found myself nodding in agreement from beginning to end with this story by Lachlan Campbell, who, after a year of Vision Pro, imagines what future Apple Vision glasses may be able to do and how they’d reshape our societal norms:

I’ve written about my long-term belief in spatial computing, and how visionOS 2 made small but notable progress. The pieces have clicked into place more recently for me for what an AR glasses version of Apple Vision would look like, and how it will change us. We don’t have the technology, hardware-wise, to build this product today, or we’d already be wearing it. We need significant leaps in batteries, mobile silicon, and displays to make this product work. Leaps in AI assistance, cameras, and computer vision would make this product better, too. But the industry is hard at work at all of these problems. This product is coming.

The basic pitch: augmented reality glasses with transparent lenses that can project more screen than you could ever own, wherever you are. The power of real software like iPad/Mac, an always-on intelligent assistant, POV photos/video/audio, and listening to audio without headphones. Control it like Apple Vision Pro with your eyes, hands, and voice, optionally pairing accessories (primarily AirPods and any of stylus/keyboard/trackpad/mice work for faster/more precise inputs). It’s cellular (with an Apple-designed modem) and entirely wireless. It combines the ideas of ambient computing that Humane (RIP) and Meta Ray-Bans have begun, including a wearable assistant, POV photography, and ambient audio with everything you love about your current Apple products.

I may be stating the obvious here, but I fundamentally believe that headsets are a dead end and glasses are the ultimate form factor we should be striving for. Or let me put it another way: every time I use visionOS, I remember how futuristic everything about it still feels…and how much I wish I was looking at it through glasses instead.

There’s a real possibility we may have Apple glasses (and an Apple foldable?) by 2030, and I wish I could just skip ahead five years now. As Lachlan argues, we’re marching toward all of this.