Apple just upgraded the Vision Pro with the M5 chip, and a 'Dual Knit Band' that looks way more comfortable

• Apple just upgraded the Vision Pro for the first time
• It's not a redesign, but the M5 chip is now under the hood
• There's also a new Dual Knit Band, which looks a lot more comfortable

While it’s not a redesign, Apple is updating the Vision Pro’s hardware for the first time. The $3,500 Spatial Computer – Apple’s first push into virtual and augmented reality hardware – launched in the United States in February 2024, about 19 months ago, with a whole host of specs, but most critically, an M2 chip under the hood.

The now-aptly-named Apple Vision Pro (M5) swaps the M2 for the brand-new M5 chip with a 10-core CPU and a next-gen 10-core GPU. That will no doubt improve performance in visionOS 26 and across countless apps, but Apple also says it’ll allow the displays to render 10% more pixels and flex ...