# visionOS 27 keeps shipping while the Vision Pro team shrinks

Source: https://idevice.com/visionos-27-keeps-shipping-while-the-vision-pro-team-shrinks
Published: 2026-08-24

> Beta 7 landed three days after the layoffs, with the feature list intact and the fall release still on.

Apple [seeded the seventh beta of visionOS 27](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/24/apple-seeds-visionos-27-beta-7/) to developers on Monday, carrying build number 24M5359a and arriving a week after beta 6. The public release is still expected this fall. Beta 7 itself is [mostly stability and bug-fix work](https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-releases-visionos-27-beta-7-to-developers/), because the larger additions landed earlier in the cycle.

Three days earlier Apple had [largely shut down the Vision Pro team working on gaming](https://idevice.com/apple-cut-the-vision-pro-team-and-kept-the-glasses) and pared back the group producing immersive video, with about 100 people cut from the Vision Products Group. The fall release still carries the full feature set: Siri AI that answers questions about what the wearer is looking at, panorama photos converted into environments, curved app windows, higher-frame-rate object tracking, and support for [PlayStation VR2](https://idevice.com/head/playstation-vr2/roadmap) Sense controllers. On the video side Apple has said it will make fewer immersive films in-house and lean on third-party 3D content.

## Sources

- [MacRumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/24/apple-seeds-visionos-27-beta-7/) (MacRumors)
- [The Mac Observer](https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-releases-visionos-27-beta-7-to-developers/) (The Mac Observer)