Apple unveiled Vision Pro, augmented reality glasses

Apple has unveiled its new Vision Pro device, which introduces advanced virtual and augmented reality technology. The device includes many key features and characteristics that make it a unique product on the market.

The Vision Pro uses a 3D interface that allows users to control the user interface with their eyes, hands and voice. The interface looks and feels like it’s in your room, using augmented reality, with virtual objects creating realistic shadows on your environment.

Vision Pro also includes a feature called EyeSight, which is a front screen that projects an image of your eyes, captured by internal cameras, to others around you. This means that other people can see what you see, including what you’re looking at in real time. When you’re deeply immersed in AR, the glasses alert you to that.

The device also has a meditation feature that creates a private sense of calm. You can use these scenes for calming, concentration, inspiration, and more.

Compatibility with Bluetooth accessories is also assured. The Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard are supported for those who want to enter text or control the user interface in the traditional way.

Users can conduct group FaceTime calls in AR, and participants’ video windows scale correctly relative to each other. This means you can have virtual meetings with coworkers or friends, creating a more realistic space for interaction.

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Basic features of Apple Vision Pro

• 3D interface: Users can use their eyes, hands and voice to control the interface. The interface looks and feels as if it is present in your room, using augmented reality, with virtual objects casting realistic shadows on your environment. Applications can be placed anywhere in real space and they appear right there in your room.
• Front Display: Called EyeSight, it’s a front-facing display that projects an image of your eyes captured by your internal cameras onto the people around you. Blur mode alerts others that you are deep in AR.
• Awareness Session: Creates a private sense of calm.
• Events: These are sort of like screensavers for the AR background. You can use these scenarios for calming, concentration, inspiration, and more.
• Bluetooth accessories: The Magic Trackpad and Magic Keyboard are supported, for those who want to enter text or navigate the UI the old-fashioned way.
• FaceTime: You can make group FaceTime calls in AR, and participants’ video windows display properly in relation to each other

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• Photos: Your surroundings darken to accentuate your compelling photos and videos. Panoramas expand and wrap around you in AR.
• Camera: It’s your first 3D camera that makes you feel part of the action. You simply press a button to take a spatial image or video.
• Camera: This is your first 3D camera that lets you feel part of the action.
• Spatial cinema: You can adjust the screen to the perfect size, and Vision Pro automatically dims the surroundings. You can watch movies with spatial sound, use «Environments» to create calming environments for watching movies. Vision Pro can even play 3D movies like in theaters.
• Games: More than 100 Apple Arcade games will be available on Vision Pro from day one, with full controller support.
• Use as a Mac display: Just look at your Mac, then put its screen where you want it in AR for a full 4K display.
• Disney: Disney CEO Bob Iger said on stage that the company will provide content optimized for Vision Pro.
• Design: The Vision Pro uses one piece of laminated glass, polished so as not to interfere with outside cameras. There’s a button dedicated to capturing spatial images, and a Digital Crown-like dial. Soft textile pieces for the back of the product provide comfort, and you can fully adjust the device to the shape of your head. Glassesmiths can buy Zeiss optics for correction. You get up to two hours of use with an external battery that uses a wire and a customizable connector that connects magnetically.
• Video: The Vision Pro uses two micro-OLED displays with 4K resolution each, providing 23 million pixels on two panels (more pixels than 4K per eye). The Apple-designed three-element lens delivers an experience «unattainable on any device» including HDR support and crisp text.
• Audio: Integrated dual-driver speakers deliver spatial audio like you’ve never heard before. Using a technique called audio tracing, Vision Pro adjusts your soundscape to match the objects in your room.
• Chips: Vision Pro uses Apple chips based on the Mac M2 chip, which runs in parallel with Apple’s new R1 chip, which processes input from built-in sensors and cameras, which Apple says eliminates latency.
• visionOS: Vision Pro runs on a new operating system called visionOS. It supports foveated rendering, a multi-application 3D engine, real subsystems, and more.

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Apple Vision Pro will be priced from $3,499. On sale in early 2024.