Apple’s plans for tethered glasses were nixed, but it may still have designs on AR glasses and its upcoming iPhone SE 4.

Apple may have nixed its plans for a set of augmented reality “smart glasses,” but that’s a mere bump in the road in terms of its overall ambitions to someday create the mythic “Apple Glass” we’ve been hearing about for years.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported Sunday that Apple does have plans in the works for standalone AR glasses. Details about those glasses aren't expected anytime soon. The plans Apple reportedly scrapped were for a pair of AR smart glasses that tether to a Mac.

Apple may have set aside its rumored plans for Mac-tethered augmented reality glasses, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done with AR glasses altogether. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman — who reported last month that Apple was working on,