Apple Vision Pro

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Apple Vision Pro
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In-store display of an Apple Vision Pro and battery
Codename N301 [1]
Developer Apple
Manufacturer Luxshare
TypeStandalone mixed reality headset
Release date
  • United States: February 2, 2024(10 months ago) (February 2, 2024)
  • China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore: June 28, 2024(5 months ago) (June 28, 2024)
  • Australia, Canada, France, Germany, UK: July 12, 2024(4 months ago) (July 12, 2024)
  • South Korea, United Arab Emirates: November 15, 2024(20 days ago) (November 15, 2024)
Introductory priceUS$3,499
Operating system visionOS (iPadOS-based [2] )
System on a chip Apple M2 (8-core, 16-core Neural Engine), Apple R1 (12 ms photon latency, 256 GB/s memory bandwidth)
CPU 8-core CPU (4x 3.49 GHz Avalanche + 4x 2.42GHz Blizzard)
Memory16 GB LPDDR5 [3]
Storage256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB
DisplayInternal:
~3660x3200 per eye [4] (equivalent to WUHD for each) dual micro OLED (RGBB π subpixel geometry) up to 100 Hz refresh rate [5]
External:
"EyeSight" curved lenticular OLED [6]
Graphics
Sound Surround sound speakers, 6 beamforming microphones [8]
Input 6DoF inside-out tracking, photogrammetry, hand gesture recognition through 12 built-in cameras and LiDAR, eye tracking and voice input
CameraStereoscopic 3D main camera system, 18 mm, ƒ/2.00 aperture, 6.5 stereo megapixels
ConnectivityWi‑Fi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3
PowerExternal 35.9Wh battery with 2–2.5 hours of use [5]
Current firmwarevisionOS 2 [9]
Mass600–650 g (excluding battery)
Website apple.com/apple-vision-pro

The Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset developed by Apple. It was announced on June 5, 2023, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. Pre-orders began on January 19, 2024 and became available for purchase on February 2, 2024, in the United States. [10] It also became available for purchase in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore on June 28, 2024, in Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the UK on July 12, 2024, and in South Korea and the UAE on November 15, 2024. [11] [12] Apple Vision Pro is Apple's first new major product category since the release of the Apple Watch in 2015. [13]

Contents

Apple markets Apple Vision Pro as a "spatial computer" where digital media is integrated with the real world. Physical inputs—such as motion gestures, eye tracking, and speech recognition—can be used to interact with the system. [10] Apple has avoided marketing the device as a virtual reality headset when discussing the product in presentations and marketing. [14]

The device runs visionOS, [15] a mixed-reality operating system derived from iPadOS frameworks using a 3D user interface; it supports multitasking via windows that appear to float within the user's surroundings, [16] as seen by cameras built into the headset. A dial on the top of the headset can be used to mask the camera feed with a virtual environment to increase immersion. The OS supports avatars (officially called "Personas"), which are generated by scanning the user's face; a screen on the front of the headset displays a rendering of the avatar's eyes ("EyeSight"), which are used to indicate the user's level of immersion to bystanders, and assist in communication. [17]

History

Development

In May 2015, Apple acquired the German augmented reality (AR) company Metaio, originally spun off from Volkswagen. [18] That year, Apple hired Mike Rockwell from Dolby Laboratories. Rockwell formed a team called the Technology Development Group including Metaio co-founder Peter Meier and Apple Watch manager Fletcher Rothkopf. The team developed an AR demo in 2016 but was opposed by chief design officer Jony Ive and his team. Augmented reality and virtual reality (VR) expert and former NASA specialist Jeff Norris was hired in April 2017. [19] [20] Rockwell's team helped deliver ARKit in 2017 with iOS 11. Rockwell's team sought to create a headset and worked with Ive's team; the decision to reveal the wearer's eyes through a front-facing eye display was well received by the industrial design team. [21]

The headset's development experienced a period of uncertainty with the departure of Ive in 2019. His successor, Evans Hankey, left the company in 2023. [22] Senior engineering manager Geoff Stahl, who reports to Rockwell, led the development of its visionOS operating system, [20] [23] after previously working on games and graphics technology at Apple. [24] Apple's extended reality headset is meant as a bridge to future lightweight AR glasses, which are not yet technically feasible. [25] [26] In November 2017, Apple acquired Canadian MR company Vrvana for $30 million. The Vrvana Totem was able to overlay fully opaque, true-color animations on top of the real world rather than the ghost-like projections of other AR headsets, which cannot display the color black. It was able to do this while avoiding the often-noticeable lag between the cameras capturing the outside world while simultaneously maintaining a 120-degree field of view at 90 Hz. The Totem also used IR illuminators and infrared cameras to perform spatial and hand tracking. [27] [28]

According to leaker Wayne Ma, Apple was originally going to allow macOS software to be dragged from the display to the user's environment, but was scrapped early on due to the limitations of being based on iPadOS and noted that the hand-tracking system was not precise enough for games. Workers also discussed collaborations with brands such as Nike for working out with the headset, and others investigated face cushions that were better suited for sweaty, high-intensity workouts, but was scrapped due to the battery pack and the fragile screen. A feature called "co-presence"; a projection of a FaceTime user's full body, was also scrapped due to unknown reasons. [29]

Unveiling and release

In May 2022, Apple's Board of Directors previewed the device. [30] The company began recruiting directors and creatives to develop content for the headset in June. One such director, Jon Favreau, was enlisted to bring the dinosaurs on his Apple TV+ show Prehistoric Planet to life. [31] By April, Apple was also attempting to attract developers to make software and services for the headset. [32] Apple filed over 5,000 patents for technologies which contributed to the development of Apple Vision Pro. [33]

Apple Vision Pro was announced at Apple's 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC23) on June 5, 2023, to launch in early 2024 in the United States at a starting price of US$3,499. [2] [34]

On June 6, the day after the announcement, Apple acquired the AR headset startup Mira, whose technology is used at Super Nintendo World's Mario Kart ride. The company has a contract with the United States Air Force and Navy. Eleven of the company's employees were onboarded. [35]

On January 8, 2024, Apple announced that the release date of Apple Vision Pro in the United States would be on February 2, 2024. [36] Estimates of initial shipments ranged from 60,000–80,000 units. [37] Pre-orders began on January 19, 2024, at 5:00 a.m. PST [38] and the launch shipments sold out in 18 minutes. [39] Apple sold up to 200,000 units in the two-week pre-order period, [40] a majority of which were to be shipped five to seven weeks after launch day. [41]

Specifications

Hardware

The front of the headset covering the colored "EyeSight" display and cameras Apple Vision Pro on display in Toronto, Canada - Aug 2024.jpg
The front of the headset covering the colored "EyeSight" display and cameras

Apple Vision Pro comprises approximately 300 components. [42] It has a curved laminated glass display on the front, an aluminum frame on its sides, a flexible cushion on the inside, and a removable, adjustable headband. The frame contains five sensors, six microphones, and 12 cameras. Users see two 3660 × 3200 pixel [4] 1.41-inch (3.6 cm) micro-OLED displays with a total of 23 megapixels usually running at 90 FPS through the lens but can automatically adjust to 96 or 100 FPS based on the content being shown. The eyes are tracked by a system of LEDs and infrared cameras, which form the basis of the device's iris scanner named Optic ID (used for authentication, like the iPhone's Face ID). Horizontally mounted motors adjust lenses for individual eye positions to ensure clear and focused images that precisely track eye movements. Sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes track facial movements, minimizing discrepancies between the real world and the projected image. [42] Custom optical inserts are supported for users with prescription glasses, which will attach magnetically to the main lens and are developed in partnership with Zeiss. The device's bone conduction speaker is inside the headband and is placed directly over the user's ears. It can also virtualize surround sound. [43] [15] [42] Two cooling fans about 4 cm (1.6 in) in diameter are placed near the eye positions to help with heat dissipation due to high-speed processing of data. An active noise control function counters distracting noises, including the fan sounds. [42] During the ordering process, users must scan their face using an iPhone or iPad with Face ID for fitting purposes; this can be done via the Apple Store app or at an Apple Store retail location. [44] [45]

Apple Vision Pro uses the Apple M2 system on a chip. It is accompanied by a co-processor known as Apple R1, which is used for real-time sensor input processing. The device can be purchased with three internal storage configurations: 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB. [38] It can be powered by an external power supply, a USB-C port on a Mac, or a battery pack rated for two and a half hours of use. [46] [14] The battery pack connects to the headset using a 12-pin locking variant of the Lightning connector that can be removed with a SIM ejection tool. [47]

The user's face is scanned by the headset during setup to generate a persona—a realistic avatar used by OS features. [48] One such feature is "EyeSight", an outward-facing screen which displays the eyes of the user's persona. Its eyes appear dimmed when in AR and obscured when in full immersion to indicate the user's environmental awareness. When someone else approaches or speaks, even if the user is fully immersed, EyeSight shows their persona's virtual eyes normally and makes the other person visible. [46] [49]

A digital crown dial on the headset is used to control the amount of virtual background occupying the user's field of view, ranging from a mixed-reality view where apps and media appear to float in the user's real-world surroundings, to completely hiding the user's surroundings. [50] [46]

Accessories

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The Vision Pro travel case, seen here including the device and accessories

First-party consumer accessories for Apple Vision Pro include a US$199 travel case, $99 Apple-manufactured Zeiss optical inserts for users with farsightedness, [51] a $199 light seal, and a $29 light seal cushion. The only official third-party accessory available at launch is a battery holder made by Belkin. [52] [53] [54]

A first-party adapter costing $299 is available and can only be purchased by registered, paid Apple Developer accounts, that replaces the right head-strap connection and adds a USB-C port for use by developers. [55] [56] [57] Code from diagnostics tools have revealed that the adapter is capable of interacting with Apple Vision Pro in a diagnostic mode. [58]

Software

Apple Vision Pro runs visionOS (internally called xrOS before a last-minute change ahead of WWDC [59] ), which is derived primarily from iPadOS core frameworks (including UIKit, SwiftUI, and ARKit), and MR-specific frameworks for foveated rendering and real-time interaction. [2] [34]

The operating system uses a 3D user interface navigated via finger tracking, eye tracking, and speech recognition. Users can select elements by looking at it and pinching two fingers together, move the element by moving their pinched fingers, and scroll by flicking their wrist. Apps are displayed in floating windows that can be arranged in 3D space. visionOS supports a virtual keyboard for text input, the Siri virtual assistant, and external Bluetooth peripherals including Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and gamepads. [46] [60] visionOS supports screen mirroring to other Apple devices using AirPlay. [61] visionOS can mirror the primary display of a macOS device via the "Mac Virtual Display" feature; the Mac can also be controlled using peripherals paired with the headset. [61]

visionOS supports vision apps from App Store, and is backward compatible with selected iOS and iPadOS apps; developers are allowed to opt out from visionOS compatibility. [62] Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube notably announced that they would not release visionOS apps at launch, nor support their iOS apps on the platform, and directed users to use their web versions in Safari. [63] Analysts suggested that this may have resulted from the companies' strained relationships with Apple over App Store policies such as mandatory 30% revenue sharing, including associated antitrust allegations. [64] [65] In an interview, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters stated that Apple Vision Pro was too niche for the company to support at this time, but that "we're always in discussions with Apple to try and figure that out". [66] A YouTube spokesperson later stated to The Verge that the service had plans to develop a visionOS app in the future. [67]

Reception

Pre-release and unveiling

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Apple Vision Pro with the "Solo Knit Band" option

Before the official release of Apple Vision Pro, Samuel Axon of Ars Technica said that Apple Vision Pro was "truly something I had never seen before", noting the intuitiveness of its user interface in a choreographed demo given by Apple, and praising a dinosaur tech demo for its immersive-ness. Axon said that its displays were dim but "much better than other headsets I've used on this front, even if it still wasn't perfect", and that the personas looked "surreal" but conveyed body language better than a more stylized avatar (such as Animoji or Horizon Worlds). [45] He argued that Apple Vision Pro was not a virtual reality (VR) platform, nor a competitor to Meta Platforms's Quest (formerly Oculus) product line, due to its positioning as "primarily an AR device that just happens to have a few VR features", and not as a mass market consumer product. [45] Media outlets observed that Meta had announced the Meta Quest 3 shortly before WWDC, seemingly in anticipation of Apple's announcement. [68] [69] [70] Following its release, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated he had demoed the headset and liked its display resolution and eye tracking, but still believed the Quest 3 was the "better product" due to its lower price and Apple's "closed" ecosystem. [71]

Jay Peters of The Verge similarly noted that Apple did not present Apple Vision Pro as a VR platform or refer to the device as a headset, and described it as an AR device and "spatial computer", and only demonstrated non-VR games displayed in windows and controlled using an external gamepad, rather than fully immersive experiences such as games and social platforms (including motion controllers). He suggested that this positioning "leaves wiggle room for the likely future of this technology that looks nothing like a bulky VR headset: AR glasses". [72] App Store guidelines for visionOS similarly state that developers should refer to visionOS software as "spatial computing experiences" or "vision apps", and avoid the use of terms such as "augmented reality" and "mixed reality". [73] [74]

After the initial announcement of Apple Vision Pro, it was criticized due to its high cost, as too high to go mainstream; [75] [76] [77] the three priciest components in Apple Vision Pro are its camera and sensor array, its dual Apple silicon chips, and the twin 4K micro-OLED virtual reality displays. Apple is reportedly working on a cheaper model that is scheduled sometime for release for the end of 2025 and a second-generation model with a faster processor. [78] Apple Vision Pro also faced criticism over its short battery life, [79] appearing distracting to others, [79] and its lack of HDMI input [80] [81] and haptic feedback. [79]

Reviews

A Vision Pro user shown with EyeSight on the front screen, in both 'eye' (top) and 'immersed' (bottom) modes Vision Pro - Immersion modes.jpg
A Vision Pro user shown with EyeSight on the front screen, in both 'eye' (top) and 'immersed' (bottom) modes

Apple Vision Pro received mixed to positive reviews. Nilay Patel of The Verge praised the headset's design as being more premium and less "goofy"-looking than other existing VR headsets, felt that its displays were "generally incredible" in their sharpness and brightness, it had the highest-quality video passthrough he had seen on an MR headset yet (even while having a field of view narrower than the Meta Quest 3), and that its speakers had a "convincing" spatial audio effect. However, he felt that there was "so much technology in this thing that feels like magic when it works and frustrates you completely when it doesn't", citing examples such as the passthrough cameras (which "cannot overcome the inherent nature of cameras and displays"), eye and hand tracking that was "inconsistent" and "frustrating" to use (with parts of the visionOS interface demanding precision that couldn't be met by the eye-tracking system), visionOS lacking a window management tool similar to Expose or Stage Manager, and that the personas and EyeSight features were uncanny (with the latter's visibility hampered by a dim, low-resolution display covered by reflective glass). Patel felt that Apple Vision Pro was meant to be a development kit for future AR glasses, as the device's current form was—from technological and philosophical standpoints—too limiting for Apple's ambitions, and "may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends." [82]

Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal echoed this sentiment, arguing that it was "the best mixed-reality headset I've ever tried", and "so much of what the Vision Pro can do feels sci-fi", but that "these companies know these aren't really the devices we want. They're all working toward building virtual experiences into something that looks more like a pair of regular eyeglasses. Until then, they're just messing with our heads." [83]

Public response

Reviews from buyers of Apple Vision Pro have been mixed. One person attempted to drive while using the device, which Apple warns against in the Apple Vision Pro user manual. [84] Other users posted videos of themselves using the device while walking, a feature not officially supported at launch. [85]

Some have experimented with cooking while wearing the headset, which is not recommended by Apple. This allows users to easily see step-by-step instructions while cooking. [86] Its use has also been documented as a potential tool in the operating room, additional use cases include education, productivity, sales, collaboration and digital twins. [87] [88]

Defects

Shortly after launch, some owners reported hairline cracks spontaneously appearing on the front display above the nose bridge. [89] [90] [91]

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