2023-07-03 14:50:18
Shortly before the announcement of Apple Vision Pro, at WWDC23, we talked regarding a report that detailed the complex manufacturing process of the Apple headset — without a doubt, the most problematic of its entire product line. Well then, according to information from The Financial Timesthe company still doesn’t seem to have solved this problem, which has already started to give you headaches.
According to the vehicle, following initially foreseeing something in the house of 1 million devicesApple would now be hoping to be able to manufacture only 400 thousand units of the headset in 2024. The entire assembly process, as we commented here, would be being handled exclusively by the Chinese Luxshare.
As said, this bottleneck in production would be caused precisely by the extremely complex design of the Vision Pro, which would explain its launch only at the beginning of next year. In addition, two unspecified suppliers of Apple components in China are reported to have said that the company only ordered enough parts to produce between 130 and 150 thousand headset units in your first year.
The parts that would be causing more work for Maçã, still according to the information, would be the two headset 4K Micro-OLED screensin addition to the entire set of EyeSight — feature that “projects” the user’s eyes onto an external screen. The cameras would also be having to go through a careful calibration process to ignore distortions caused by the curved glass on the front of the device.
Apple, of course, would not be satisfied with the productivity of its suppliers, with special emphasis on the Micro-OLED screens of the headset, which still suffer from manufacturing defects. The displays used in the first Vision Pro prototypes — such as those demonstrated during WWDC23 — would have been provided by Sony and TSMC, it is worth noting.
All these problems would have made Apple postpone its plans to launch a cheaper version of Vision Prowhich would be being developed with the help of the South Korean Samsung Display e LG Display. Still according to FTApple tested screens Mini-LED for this model in order to lower its price, but soon backtracked and now follows the plan to use the same Micro-OLED screens as the more expensive model.
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