Apple has a strange plan to power future Vision Pro with AirPods
5 days ago
Apple is researching ways that other devices such as straps or even AirPods, can charge an Apple Vision Pro while in use.
Right now, the only way to keep using an Apple Vision Pro uninterrupted is to have to plugged in to a wall socket. Under battery power, it lasts up to around two hours, and that battery is not hot-swappable — the headset can't carry on working while the battery is changed.
Or it can't at present. A newly-revealed patent application called "HMD with Charging Device" proposes that an Apple Vision Pro could be "charged using a wearable electronic device." While the patent application is typically vague about that wearable device, it is clear that it would "magnetically connect... to transfer power."
While the text is as consciously unspecific as all patent applications are, the drawings with it are much less so. All illustrations that show any device being attached to the Apple Vision Pro appear to be showing AirPods.
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Right now, the only way to keep using an Apple Vision Pro uninterrupted is to have to plugged in to a wall socket. Under battery power, it lasts up to around two hours, and that battery is not hot-swappable — the headset can't carry on working while the battery is changed.
Or it can't at present. A newly-revealed patent application called "HMD with Charging Device" proposes that an Apple Vision Pro could be "charged using a wearable electronic device." While the patent application is typically vague about that wearable device, it is clear that it would "magnetically connect... to transfer power."
While the text is as consciously unspecific as all patent applications are, the drawings with it are much less so. All illustrations that show any device being attached to the Apple Vision Pro appear to be showing AirPods.
Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums