Specifications
The headset runs on the standard M2 chip, paired with a new R1 chip, which takes on the video streaming. The displays are micro-OLED, with an impressive 64 pixels in roughly the space of a standard iPhone pixel. The three-element lens is designed to improve the imaging from all angles. The company also teamed up with Zeiss to bring custom prescription glass inserts, rather than accommodating for the wearer’s glasses.
IT'S 'A NEW KIND OF COMPUTER'
One of the biggest surprises for me was the way Apple demonstrated different interfaces for Vision Pro that mimicked the iPad, the Apple TV, and the Mac. Honestly, the iPad and Apple TV interfaces didn't surprise me, but the Mac did. Apple showed users creating the equivalent of giant multi-monitor Mac setups within Vision Pro.
EVEN MORE APP EXPERIENCES
Apple Vision Pro has an all-new App Store where users can discover apps and content from developers, and access hundreds of thousands of familiar iPhone and iPad apps that run great and automatically work with the new input system for Vision Pro. Apple’s developer community can go even further and take advantage of the powerful and unique capabilities of Vision Pro and visionOS to design brand-new app experiences, and reimagine existing ones for spatial computing.
FACETIME BECOMES SPATIAL
With Apple Vision Pro, FaceTime calls take advantage of the room around the user, with everyone on the call reflected in life-size tiles, as well as Spatial Audio, so it sounds as if participants are speaking right from where they are positioned. Users wearing Vision Pro during a FaceTime call are reflected as a Persona — a digital representation of themselves created using Apple’s most advanced machine learning techniques — which reflects face and hand movements in real time.
APPLE VISION PRO LAUNCH WITH DISNEY+ STREAMING
The Walt Disney Company has always been at the forefront of new storytelling technology. On Monday, it announced a new partnership with Apple to bring its streaming service Disney+ to the tech giant’s new augmented reality headset. Disney CEO Bob Iger said the new tech will enhance the Disney+ viewing experience, noting that when the headset launches early next year, users will be able to access the streaming service.