Apple Glasses is something they should already be working on and releasing sooner then later. Meta's most recent released Smart Glasses are solid and work solid especially for taking pictures and videos (just using them to film my ski runs this weekend; use them few times a week as my sunglasses and to snap pics). The smart features on this latest addition aren't terribly reliable though and need user experience work (i.e. audio just starts playing an inopportune times.. annoying).

> Apple Glasses is something they should already be working on and releasing sooner then later.

My point is that AVP is step 1 of working on and releasing Apple Glasses. Rather than start with whatever minimal features they could fit into wraparound shades, they started with the feature set they wanted, built the minimum hardware that could do that, and from here out will keep iterating and improving until they eventually fit it into a pair of glasses.

In other words, it only looks like and functions like a VR headset by accident; the form is a side effect of the current hardware, and the VR functionality is just a nice bonus on top of what they actually wanted to focus on.

Apple does not look at hardware and need to release sooner rather than later. Apple is a software company. When they look at a product category, they think of the software they want running on that.

With a computer you wear on your face, they’ve just released their minimal viable product. You’ll get glasses when they can fit visionOS in them.

In the meantime you can buy glasses from other companies that only take creepy pictures.

If enough people discover and buy meta glasses for taking pics n videos which I'm betting 51 percent out of 49 will...Apple will release their similar glasses too that are also only for taking pics & videos. Everyone I show my meta glasses too ..they show some level excitement yet a few think oh no I'm going to be recorded and not know. Well you can be recorded now and not know too.