Next Apple Vision headset may use titanium to cut weight

A new leak claims that Apple's follow up to the Apple Vision Pro will switch from aluminum to titanium to reduce weight, and will come in a black or dark blue color.

Following a dubious report that Apple Vision Pro 2 will come out in April 2026, a new leak claims that the next headset may not be called Apple Vision Pro at all. It may instead be just called Apple Vision, or possibly Apple Vision Air.

Without specifying a release date, leaker Kosutami has also tweeted that the next headset will be this lighter model.

Our next friend in the Vision lineup is so thin, features titanium to reduce weight, including the connectors and the battery, and all comes with iPhone 5-era black- which looks like graphite dark blue. And be noted: this might not called as — -Pro but you can Air it out.
— Kosutami (@Kosutami_Ito) April 16, 2025

In the thread that follows that tweet, Kosutami further walks this back a little, saying that "most of the outside would be still [sic] aluminum." He or she insists, though, that titanium will be used for a "few of [the] internal structures."

Kosutami is also specific that the move from aluminum to titanium is in order to reduce weight. Titanium is stronger than aluminum, although it's also more expensive.

And, Titanium alloy is denser that Aluminum. A cubic centimeter of titanium comes in at about 4.4 grams. The same volume of Aluminum is 2.7 grams.

Apple does now have more than a year of details about the wear and tear on the Apple Vision Pro headset. So it's feasible that the company has determined it can mix materials to get an optimum mix that sees a lesser volume of titanium doing the job that aluminum does now to achieve that lower overall weight.

As for the "iPhone 5-era black" color that looks like a dark graphite blue, it's also feasible that Apple would want to make a clear visual distinction between its headsets. It does already do so with distinguishing between the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 16 Pro range, for instance.

Note, though, that Kosutami has a mixed track record. This Apple Vision Pro leak sounds like a bit of wishful thinking, but he or she has previously shown some HomePod pre-production images — and also entirely inaccurate leaks about the Apple Watch.

23 Comments

apple4thewin 4 Years · 437 comments

About 3 weeks ago

Surprised to hear Apple go for that color instead of just pure black or grayish-black. So would this be just the VP-Lite/not (not) Air/SE/E?

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9secondkox2 9 Years · 3419 comments

About 3 weeks ago

Difficult to see apple producing snother headset. Maybe if the did a super cheap version. But not just changing a few things.

Either go all in with glasses for mass market or do the cheap tethered thing, but with great cameras and screens. Otherwise it will just be the same or maybe rvrn worse now that the early adopters are saturated with the expensive version one.

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twolf2919 3 Years · 173 comments

About 3 weeks ago

9secondkox2 said:

Difficult to see apple producing snother headset. Maybe if the did a super cheap version. But not just changing a few things.
Either go all in with glasses for mass market or do the cheap tethered thing, but with great cameras and screens. Otherwise it will just be the same or maybe rvrn worse now that the early adopters are saturated with the expensive version one.

Agree - I can't imagine Apple doubling-down on a design they know didn't get enough sales. They need to face reality: there simply isn't much of a mass market for a device costing multiple thousands of dollars that can only really be used in private, since it's too cumbersome to use on the go - and you look like a complete tool if you do.

To this day I have no idea why Tim Cook let himself by led into this technological dead end called the Vision Pro. i remember him clearly stating that Apple's next big thing would be AR glasses. Somehow he got convinced by someone that these devices must be standalone products rather than an iPhone dependent one like Apple Watch and AirPods. Unfortunately, that decision meant the future devices needed to cram a lot of CPU power and battery capacity into what needed to be a very light, small device - glasses! The AVP VR headset became their first stab at it. But it seems obvious that they will never be able to shrink that down to glasses anyone is willing to wear.

Google produced useful AR glasses TWELVE years ago. If Apple hadn't gone down the wrong path, I'm sure they could have developed a sleek, much better product given all the miniaturization that's taken place win a decade.

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tht 24 Years · 5841 comments

About 3 weeks ago

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Our next friend in the Vision lineup is so thin, features titanium to reduce weight, including the connectors and the battery, and all comes with iPhone 5-era black- which looks like graphite dark blue. And be noted: this might not called as ---Pro but you can Air it out."
Unless there is a translation error, this rumor is bonkers crazy bullshit. Titanium is about 1.67x heavier than aluminum. You may be able to reduce the overall weight of it by using a thinner titanium frame, relative to an aluminum one, but aluminum will still be lighter. This isn't an application that needs a lot of strength. There isn't a win with titanium for this application. Not only that, titanium is perceived, and is, as premium material. It's not sensible to sell it as a down market device relative to the Vision Pro. I'd rate it as "bonkers bullshit" not "possible".

Their best option imo is to use an A19 Pro, use a more power efficient "R2" packaged inside the A19 Pro, and move it to an audio strap. This eliminates the two fans and a PCB. It might still need a fan to air out the volume between your eyes and the headset. If so, I'd out it in the other audio strap. This will make it thinner and lighter, and needs less pressure against your face.

They still need to double the resolution of the cameras, increase the PPD of the display by about 50%, increase FOV to, what, 150° (?), and put a battery into the unit. These pass-through headsets won't be mature for a long ways still.

The glasses form factor is still 10 years away, and it will be worse than the current AVP for everything but the wearability. See-through headsets will come with a whole set of issues. It's not a replacement. It's just another form factor that enables a different set of applications.