Apple Vision Pro Augmented Reality Headset is New AR headset

You explore rows of app icons in an operating system called visionOS without using the device’s controller. Apple claims that “hundreds of thousands of familiar iPhone and iPad apps” will function that way by default. You can tap to pick and flick to navigate, as well as use voice commands. Additionally, the headset allows you to connect your Mac and supports Bluetooth peripherals like the Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad. Even if your hands are lying low to your body, cameras that face downward might still record them.

The headgear comprises an aluminum frame with a glass front and five sensors, 12 cameras, a 4K display for each eye, and what appears to be a fan-cooled microprocessor. Apple claims that the cloth-lined, modular headset mask (which it calls a “Light Seal”) and strap (which it calls a “Head Band”) can bend to accommodate a range of face shapes and head sizes. You may switch out various sizes and types of bands for the Head Band, which is ribbed and goes around the back of your head.

For those who wear glasses, Zeiss has developed personalized optical inserts that magnetically fasten to the lenses. It connects through a “supple woven cable” and includes an external battery that lasts up to two hours. You may slip it into your pocket or use it all day by plugging it into external power. Apple claims that the display would have an unmatched level of sharpness and be capable of 4K video.

Apple assures you that you are not disconnected from others around you. With a feature called EyeSight, the headset will show your eyes, and if you’re using full virtual reality, a bright screen will cover them to indicate you’re not available. Additionally, it scans your face to produce a digital “persona”—basically a hyperrealistic avatar. In addition to projecting 3D things into actual space, including dragging objects out of a message thread into the real world, the gadget employs passthrough video to enable you view the real world in all its vibrant color.

You may utilize spatial audio to arrange FaceTime participants as “video tiles” around the room when you’re chatting to folks who are located distant. Additionally, a 3D camera may be used within the headgear to record and “relive” 180-degree footage. Apple is promoting premium content from Disney as well as TV and arcade games on the headset.

The headset has apparently undergone several changes and years of delays when it first began to be developed. Although it will join a market that hasn’t taken off, it is intended to be CEO Tim Cook’s trademark addition to the Apple product portfolio and has received plaudits from industry insiders. Its main rival will probably be Meta, which has had mixed results with its all-purpose Quest Pro headset and somewhat better performance with its game-focused Quest 2 headset.