Apple Vision Go: SenseOS, AR Glasses, Siri, and the Future Apple Should Have Shipped, And May At WWDC 2026.

Apple Vision Go was the obvious path: lightweight AR glasses plus SenseOS, not a $4000 headset in search of a point. A year after FYI mapped the agentic OS Apple should have shipped, Gurman is now pointing in the same direction. WWDC will show whether Apple finally goes for it, or stays slow.

Apple Vision Go: not a leak - but probably prescient. The AR future Apple should have shipped.

I saw Mark Gurman is fishing for something to write about today, Sunday 31st May 2026. In his paywalled Power On prediction markets piece today, he’s reaching for relevance going into WWDC.

It must be a slow news day — he’s gone back to something I wrote about last year in May 2025:

The inevitable and upcoming transition to an agentic OS, and notably, predicted the - in its current form - death of the AVP, and the coming rise of AR glasses.

Cue Gurman in May 2026. Oh look, he’s taken a pair of RayBan Wayfarers and given them… white frames and clear lenses. How very unoriginal.

Mark Gurman decides Apple is going to disrupt the failed “glasses market” the way it did with Watches. I hope they do a better job of it than the Watch, which I wear and love, but which Apple has let plunge from a 54% market share to 20%

You’re welcome Mark. I’m glad you’re catching up and reading FYI for inspiration, even if you’re about a year late to the Apple AR prediction market

I’ll let the images from that original concept article do the talking. Because really, it was very simple: Let Siri be what it was meant to be in 2011, and add agentic capabilities to the underlying OS across all devices and apps.

Conceived in May 2025 and published here, now - perhaps - to be seen in Apple’s supposedly agentic OS release in just a few days? **Anything less, will be a crushing disappointment.**

A year on, rumours are that Apple is planning to announce just that at WWDC in a week. The question is: will it work, and will it be just a beta?

Here’s a pictorial summary of how I saw this unfolding a year ago, in this landmark concept, and what it might do for Apple. The shame is, they’re having to let Google’s Gemini do all the work, because Apple Intelligence hit and slid down a brick wall.

But, well, that’s another tale I’ve already made my thoughts clear on.

If you haven’t read my thoughts on Siri, just go up to the search bar and type in Siri on the FYI page; it’ll surface most of my missives about the failed assistant and Apple’s poor stewardship of it. But onwards, here are the images I used to explain my longform conceptL

SenseOS - the OS Apple should have launched, and which should have allowed it to own the AI and agentic market - will they get it right at last?

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Because it just knows what you want, before you do

It works across devices, in real time, integrating actions and data to ensure a mesh system is ready to deliver.

Always on, Always private.

SenseOS infers need, prepares in the background so it’s ready to work for you, in an agentic fashion, before you’ve even asked.

It’s in your apps, ready to work with your private data locally wherever possible. Sending instructions to the cloud where greater inference is necessary. It collects data from your devices, privately and securely, using iCloud-held secure data to ensure your privacy is always respected.

The health benefits of sensors in all your devices linked through Apple Health and stored securely, become available in real time, across apps and devices.

Your activities are quietly and unobtrusively observed so SenseOS can act on real live data and needs either automatically or on request. It’s your agent, working your way, with no cookies or external affiliates poking their nose in.

Morning begins with a wake up call

On your commute SenseOS uses your AirPods to understand your environment and context, letting you catch up on your day ahead from a curated multi-media feed it’s learned, from you. By the time you’re at work, you’re already up to speed.

At work, SenseOS adapts according to your Focus settings, and quietly lets you work, only surfacing important personal matters when necessary and giving you the odd prompt and reminder.

If something important comes up, SenseOS alerts you and suggests an in-context action. Apple’s iOS auto-answer screens your calls while you’re at work but knows when something might be too important to leave to chance.

By the time you get home, it’s ready to help you journal, clear your mind, and set your alarms. Only if you want to. And checking your schedule, it suggests alterations to your work and lifestyle, based on your Apple Health data, commitments and goals - using the Journal App.

Because this is the OS, Apple should have shipped, after it bought Siri in 2010, before it was lobotomised, and then failed to reboot in 2024.

Has Apple been listening? Because it’s time to put up, or shut up. “Better late than never,“ only buys you so much time.

It was never about the Vision Pro; that was an anomaly:

And it was never about a newer, more expensive, Vision Pro. At least, not yet. The world isn’t ready for a $4000 headset to watch dinosaur movies with a vague promise of immersive viewing if you don’t have any friends to watch the race with.

No, Not yet. The future isn’t here, yet, and it doesn’t lok like a brick strapped to your head which needs a battery pack attached like a tampon with a wire, you have to carry around your waist.

We’re moving from the era of iteration, to a new era. A post-Cook era, at last.

Tim was a fantastic financial genius, but had a curious lack of understanding of what people actually wanted to be told they needed. Jobs “got it.” Tim, just didn’t.

Now John Ternus is going to step into the CEO shoes and show finally have a chance to show us what he’s made of, can he avoid making the same mistakes as his predecessor, whilst also managing to whip Craig Federighi in action?

Federighi - the Yoda of Apple - needs to put down the hairspray and start shipping.

Because we really don’t want history to repeat itself

Under Tim Cook, Apple iterated, but spectacularly failed to dominate in new markets. Because even in 2026, Apple is still known as… the iPhone company. Two decades on.

Will a max’d out iPhone Phold really rescue Apple’s reputation for innovation, or just be another set piece of over-engineered techno fetish, like the iPhone Air, and the AVP? (or.

Apple was once the company that could “Think Different” and sell you dreams you discovered later, you couldn’t live without

If John Ternus can shrug off Tim Cook’s “Iterate Don’t Dominate” mantra,

And remember his previous mentor had an approach worth sticking to,

Then maybe, just maybe, this company can once again become the Apple of my eye once more, instead of just becoming the one-time apple of Steve Jobs’ eye, a competent Sony in its middle-age period, a “first amongst equals,” but no longer a pioneer.

Because it’s time to #FreeSiri

And WWDC2026 is just around the corner. It’s make or break time. Let’s hope Apple are a “go” and not still “on slow.” I’ll be watching out of the corner of my eye.

And listening hard hoping not to hear the word “beta”

Or the death knell of all AI pronouncements:

“more to come later in 2026 - we’re so excited to show you what we’re planning, and can’t wait for the full release of Siri, soon.”

Siri has long deserved to be more than a search bar, more than an answering machine.

So Apple, please, please, restore my faith, after wrecking it in 2024 and 2025. Because this, is not the hero image I want to be running, the day after WWDC:

So good luck to everyone going into WWDC and staying long and strong, because AI is risky business. And so is renting other people’s brains to power it. See you on the other side of WWDC!

**Let’s hope 2026, doesn’t turn out to be a repeat of 2025. And if you’re playing with options, I hope you have a hedge on somewhere!**

Tommo_UK, London, Sunday, 31st May 2026

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