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Apple launches Vision Pro, its first-ever augmented reality headset
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| Apple's Reality Pro is finally real. Credit: Apple |
Attention, everyone: Apple has a new product category.
On Monday, after more than an hour of updates everything else Apple, the company CEO Tim Cook announced Apple's first-ever augmented reality headset, the Vision Pro.
Vision Pro, announced as a "one more thing" near the end of the event, is a headset with a see-through display and a fully 3D interface controlled with your eyes, hands, and your voice.
The idea is to see your apps and experienced mixed up with the physical objects in front of you. And you can control how much of this digital reality seeps into the actual reality by turning the crown on the headset's side, similar to the crown on the Apple Watch. Tim Cook calls this "spatial computing."
Apple places great emphasis on the fact that you're not isolated from the outside world while wearing Vision Pro. For example, when you're fully immersed into a virtual experience, and a person comes near you, they'll be able to see your eyes, and you will be able to see them as they enter your mixed reality.
It's tough to say how well all this works without trying it out, but Apple placed great emphasis on how seamless these experiences are, as if all your apps, such as video players, FaceTime chats, and photo apps, are just new, fully customizable, virtual parts of your reality when you wear the Vision Pro.
In one example, you can resize the video display in front of you with a simple two-hand gesture, and Apple will automatically dim the lights in the back, create a nice soft glow around the virtual display, and surround you with Spatial Audio. Sounds...well, immersive. Oh, and 3D movies are supported, too.
Apple brought Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, to announce a few things Disney has created for the Vision Pro. These included watching the Mandalorian on a virtual display placed in the virtual world of Star Wars or watching a basketball game in 3D from an isometric perspective. Disney+ will be available for Vision Pro at launch, and Iger said the company will have more announcements "in the coming months."
To do all this, Apple put a lot of effort into making the Vision Pro lightweight, yet powerful. The display system consists of two micro-OLED displays with a total of 23 million pixels; that's more pixels, Apple says, than a 4K TV has. Video is rendered in true 4K resolution with wide color and high dynamic range. A number of cameras, both on the inside and outside, and Lidar scanners, are there to track your eye and hand movements and scan the environment. The headset also supports spatial audio, and can scan your room to deliver an immersive audio experience. It's all wrapped into a fairly elegant aluminum and glass enclosure, with a seemingly comfy fabric strap that keeps the headset on your head. And if you wear glasses, you'll be happy to know that Apple has partnered with Zeiss to create optical inserts that magnetically attach to the headset's lenses.
It's all powered with an Apple M2 chip, running in parallel with an all-new chip called R1 that processes input from the cameras, sensors, and microphones on the device. In simple terms, the M2 takes care of the computing, while the R1 makes sure that everything runs smoothly.
There's also an all-new eye scanning system called Optic ID, making sure that only you can access the headset. On the other hand, apps cannot "see" what you're looking at, which is good for privacy.
In terms of battery life, the Vision Pro will last two hours of use with an external battery, connected via a cable on the side. Apple says that this makes the headset lighter on the head, which is true, though it has to be seen how much of a nuisance the cable and the attached battery really are.
Of course, it's not just Apple that's creating things for the Vision Pro. The headset will come with support for numerous third-party apps, and Unity games and apps are supported as well.
As predicted, the Vision Pro is not cheap, and it's not actually coming very soon. It starts at $3,499, and it will be available "early next year."
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ReplyDeleteHololens was priced $3000 and had crappy software and less apps. It’s like Apple took over the project and presented it better. Can’t wait til they have a not so Pro version of this.
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Delete$3,500
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DeleteWhy don’t these companies get it? The majority of people don’t want to walk around with VR or AR tech on their face in front of their eyes. It will be a fad, just like every other product like this. Wear for a couple of days and then collect dust at the back of your wardrobe.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that you can see the users eyes from the outside, and that the user can see the environment around him/her, makes this less of a problem. I think it's obvious that AR/VR will become enormously big technologies in the future, that everyone will be wearing devices like that, that it will to a large degree replace laptops, mobile phones, screens, etc... but while this Vision Pro is amazing compared to everything else on the market, it might not be enough to make this a big consumer product just yet... it's too expensive for that, and still looks a bit bigger than I expected.
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Delete$3500 and you have to carry a wired battery pack in your pocket? Guessing they'll charge another $100 for a belt clip. 🤣 Can't wait to see the lineups to buy it on day 1
ReplyDeleteit was done to reduce the weight on your head. The battery is heavy.
DeleteI'm wondering if it will work with glasses, or will it cost even more to change the lens to prescription. You can do with with the PSVR2
ReplyDeletethey have magnetic lenses that attach for people with glasses. Extra for that I'm sure
DeleteIn terms of battery life, the Vision Pro will last two hours….
ReplyDeletethat's the only downside I've noticed. Have to buy extra battery packs to stay portable.
DeleteThe battery can be charging while in use.
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DeleteYeah this looked amazing, until the price showed up.
ReplyDeletethe price is nice for what we are getting. otherwise it would just be another cheap headset. This is a push Forward.
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DeleteMeta had already lowered the price down to $1100 for the Meta Quest Pro in January, just 3 months after release, so I suspect it wasn't selling much at that price. And that headset was so expensive that they aimed it mainly at developers/prosumers and not ordinary consumers.
DeleteI was ready for a price of $1500-2000 for this new Apple headset, had read rumors that Apple was even considering to sell it at cost, to win over this segment of the market... but at $3.500 it becomes too much of an luxury product, and I think the price will exclude the vast majority of potential customers.
Definitely a luxury product and I expect nothing less from apple.
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Yes... I am a music composer and producer and am excited about how this could be used with Logic Pro... I have an Mac Studio Ultra, and would love to be able to remote control Logic on my Mac through hand gestures and eye movement with this device. It's definitely an amazing device... but I think the price is too high... where I live(Norway) it will probably be around $5000 including taxes and fees...
DeleteRather have a set of regular styled glasses with ar/ vr that also have the option to switch prescription lenses too
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DeleteI love coming here to read the comments from the “experts” who have never even touched the device but are ready to call it a failure. “Experts” LMAO!!!
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If that’s the starter price it really isn’t that expensive
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ReplyDeleteWas expecting some where close to 5k. Looks pretty damn cool. Wonder if this would be eligible with Apple Pay Later
ReplyDeleteThat’s adjusted for inflation. It would be $499 today.
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This device will certainly keep optometrists busy with vision-related issues!
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That’s a pass for me. I was excited for this! But, I’ll just get the Meta Quest 3 instead. Not enough features in this to justify a $3500 price tag that I can’t do or I needed to do on a quest.
ReplyDeleteHmm…interesting. I think I like it.
ReplyDeleteWatched the whole presentation regarding this. No other headset has anything compared to the absolute beast of this so I’ll go for it, when compared to meta pro it seems way better and especially no other company can make it like vision pro due to 5000 patents for anyone super surprised about the price, it’s apple so idk wtf you were expecting, if you want something similar but not as perfect, go for meta pro, they recently lowered their price.
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Gadget madness! Will try this out in 2025. I use my 3k to load my coin 🏃🐝
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ReplyDeleteThen the next year Vision Pro 2,3,4 Vision Pro Max Pro +6 etc. Making your original obsolete ever year lol
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Very affordable price for most Americans.
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ReplyDeleteApple still to announce … The strap which goes round your head is an extra $79
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