Apple hires design lead to add health tracking to glasses

Apple is actively developing advanced health and fitness tracking capabilities for its future smart glasses and augmented reality headsets, according to recent reports. The company's Vision Products Group is recruiting a senior product design leader to define health and wellness experiences for these devices, signaling a long-term strategy to expand its wearable ecosystem beyond the Apple Watch and AirPods.

The new job listing calls for a candidate to "define the future of health, wellbeing and fitness experiences across vision products" and to translate opportunities in spatial computing, wearables, and consumer health into a clear product direction. This hiring effort indicates Apple is in the early stages of planning how to integrate sensors into a glasses form factor to monitor body movement and other fitness signals without compromising comfort.

This initiative revives an ambition Apple previously pursued for its Vision Pro headset. The company had developed a version of its Fitness app for the device that would allow users to follow workout classes while the headset's body-tracking technology analyzed their movements in real time. However, those plans were shelved due to...