Apple cuts at least 60 Vision Pro and VR development roles amid Vision Products reorganization
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGCalifornia Employment Development Department· filed March 28, 2024View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Wyatt Drive Santa Clara, CA · 5 locations (Santa Clara County).
Department affected: VR development / Apple Vision Group / Vision Products Group.
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on March 28, 2024.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the CA state workforce agency.
Summary
Reports indicate Apple Inc. has eliminated at least 60 employees across VR development, the Apple Vision Group, and related Vision Products Group roles, including the reported closure of an entire VR development team. The figure comes from a single unnamed source and Apple has not confirmed the cuts or provided timing, employee locations, or details on reassignments. The article frames the layoffs within a longer reorganization that dispersed the Vision Products Group into other engineering organizations and suggests resources may be shifting toward smart glasses and AI wearables rather than a future enclosed headset. Public support for Vision Pro (sales of the M5 model and visionOS maintenance) continues even as targeted reductions appear to reduce investment in specific VR-focused teams.
Apple Inc. disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the CA state workforce agency on March 28, 2024. The notice covers 187 employees in Wyatt Drive Santa Clara, CA (Santa Clara County), with the layoff effective May 27, 2024.
The state lists each affected employee separately by work location, so this filing spans 5 CA communities: Coronado Drive Santa Clara, Kifer Road Santa Clara, San Ysidro Way Santa Clara, Scott Blvd Santa Clara, Wyatt Drive Santa Clara.
That is roughly 0.1% of the 164,000 people Apple Inc. employs.
LayoffTalk has tracked 19 layoff events at Apple Inc. since April 2024, including 512 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 15 additional events known from news reporting.
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