More than a year after Apple’s Vision Pro headset was released in Australia , it’s still exceedingly rare to meet someone who owns one.

The headset is expensive, its benefits over other mixed-reality headsets are difficult to discern, and it’s locked to an Apple ecosystem that hasn’t seen a lot of developer interest.

And yet, it remains an incredible device that’s gradually becoming more refined. With the release of its M5 chip, Apple has refreshed the Vision Pro (along with the iPad Pro and entry-level MacBook Pro) with more processing and AI power.

So I took it as an opportunity to revisit the headset and see what’s changed.

VisionOS 26 makes for many improvements

I hadn’t used a Vision Pro extensively since it launched and, while a lot has stayed the same, software updates have a

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