Apple revealed what could be its most consequential new piece of technology in years at WWDC Monday. The Apple “Vision Pro” headset is a slimmed-down headset device meant to facilitate both virtual reality and augmented reality.
“In the same way Mac introduced us to personal computing and iPhone introduced us to mobile computing, Vision Pro will introduce us to spatial computing,” Tim Cook said.
The new headset includes several passthrough cameras on its exterior designed to allow for a full AR experience, including hand tracking. Inside, the device has pretty eye-popping display potential with twin 1.41-inch 4,000 PPI Micro OLED screens. Each eye should include 4K resolution per eye.
The Vision Pro supposed to act like a wearable MacBook with all the apps and fixings users have come to expect. The headset is meant to operate with some of Apple’s most popular home, life, and workplace apps. This includes Messages, Books, Camera, FaceTime, Mail, Music, and Safari.
All those apps have been tailored to work inside the confines of the headset’s lenses, and—of course—there will be games as well. As far as its battery life goes, it carries a charge that could only last about two hours, which is about the same as the Meta Quest 2 and other cheap offerings. It remains to be seen how it competes with Meta’s upcoming Quest 3 offerings. Apple reportedly had to sacrifice much of CEO Tim Cook’s original intent for the device, so what we saw at WWDC seems to be everything Apple could possibly do with the technology at hand.
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