A cheaper Apple headset just lost the one part that would've made it cheaper.
According to The Elec, a Korean outlet that tracks display supply chains, Samsung Display is winding down the screen for a lower-cost Vision Pro, a panel known in the industry as "G-VR," and will formally end the work in September.
G-VR was a cheaper, lower-resolution version of the screen inside today's Vision Pro. Cutting the cost of that screen was important because it's the most expensive part of the headset.
The Elec says the panel works fine and that ending it was a business call. Apple has moved its attention to smart glasses, the lightweight kind meant to rival Meta's Ray-Bans, so the cheaper headset lost its priority. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that in October 2025, when he reported Apple paused the lighter "Vision Air," and by May he said it was canceled. Apple's glasses are expected in 2027.
The report comes from a single source, and AppleInsider's William Gallagher rated it "unlikely", partly because the claim that Apple dropped the headset for AI is guesswork stacked on top of the leak.
If this holds, anyone waiting for an affordable Vision Pro is holding out for something that was already years away and now has less behind it. Either way, it's becoming more and more likely that Apple's next act is glasses.