Vision Pro launch: all the news about Apple’s pricey new headset

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The Vision Pro bathes your eyeballs successful infrared light.

You tin spot that successful this Slow Mo Guys YouTube Short showing the flashing of the invisible-to-the-human-eye IR illuminators of Apple’s look computer, some connected the beforehand and astir the lenses’ edges.

At 1,000fps, the Guys show the Vision Pro’s very fancy micro-OLED displays alternating betwixt images and achromatic frames, pinch a ringing of IR lights popping connected during the acheronian moments to thief way wherever your eyes are looking.

Is the MLB’s Vision Pro app fresh for the large leagues?

Jason Snell of Six Colors specifications his acquisition pinch the MLB’s visionOS app now that the play is underway. Of the Gameday characteristic that puts a 3D-animated shot section successful your abstraction during a game, he writes:

The Vision Pro is getting immoderate caller Apple Arcade games.

Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, and Spire Blast will each get Vision Pro “spatial” apps tomorrow, Apple shared successful a merchandise emailed to The Verge.

Also, hit crippled Synth Riders — aka the only crippled I’ve been coming backmost to too slug hellhole shooter Void-X — has been updated pinch Game Center leaderboards and a pass-the-headset Party Mode.

The Apple Vision Pro is $150 off... if you’re emotion lucky.

But there’s a catch: they each vessel pinch a 21W ray seal and small-sized headbands. Buying a seal separately from Apple costs $200 and the headbands are $99 apiece, truthful you mightiness salary much than the unit value if you aren’t happy pinch the fit.

Update March 27th, 4:41PM ET: Adjusted pricing and added much circumstantial sizing details, courtesy of Woot.

Where successful the world will the Vision Pro motorboat this year?

Apple CEO Tim Cook told property astatine the China Development Forum successful Beijing that China will get it this year, according to Reuters this morning, citing a Chinese authorities media Weibo post.

You tin now browse Vision Pro apps connected the web.

It’s fundamentally the aforesaid point you’d spot if you were browsing the shop successful the Vision Pro itself — a fewer curated lists of autochthonal apps here, immoderate recommended iPad apps there.

But astatine slightest there’s a measurement to casually cruise those sweet spatial apps without popping the headset connected now.

Mark Zuckerberg has much to opportunity astir the Vision Pro and really overmuch worse it is than his Quest headsets.

Once Apple released the Vision Pro, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded pinch a video saying his company’s Quest 3 headset is “the amended product, period.”

Now he’s backmost pinch much takes, posting this connected Threads successful consequence to a station that said, “Apple is trading beautiful overmuch the instrumentality Meta wants to scope successful 3-5 years.”

Is my Persona better?

There’s a caller Vision Pro update out, and visionOS 1.1 supposedly improves everybody’s favourite feature, Personas. But I deliberation it’s still the worldly of nightmares. I FaceTimed my friend, and according to her: I still look excessively sleepy, my rima moves more, and my eyes are amended but not rather right.

“It looks much for illustration you, but it’s still not you.” What do y’all think?

Apple’s visionOS update that could make Persona avatars better-looking is almost here.

MacRumors points retired that this merchandise besides has updates for the virtual keyboard, Mac Virtual Display, mobile instrumentality management, and more. With the iOS 17.4 update adjacent to a nationalist launch, Apple besides put retired release candidates for tvOS, macOS, watchOS, and Xcode.

Apparently Foxtrot is still going?

As a nerd kid, this was 1 of my favourite newspaper comic strips. But I haven’t looked astatine the funny pages successful galore years, and had assumed this 1 had agelong since expired.

What’s the Vision Pro for illustration aft a month?

Joanna Stern writes successful The Wall Street Journal that Apple’s look computer isn’t truthful awesome for work, but serves good arsenic an flight from day-to-day life. You know, for illustration a VR headset.

Still, moreover if the Vision Pro isn’t ever magic, she finds it useful for focusing “on a azygous task, for illustration penning a column.”

This is why we can’t person bully [360-degree YouTube videos connected the Vision Pro].

It’s astir codecs and resolution. 4K-and-up videos only usage either YouTube’s VP9 codec aliases the royalty-free AV1. Christian Selig, developer of the Juno YouTube app, writes that 360 video of the erstwhile can’t activity because it requires Apple’s blessing. And the Vision Pro’s M2 spot has nary AV1 hardware decoder, truthful that’s out, too.

Why not 1080p, he asks? Because it looks for illustration doo-doo.

It’s a statement successful the AVP.

The San Francisco Standard documents immoderate parties wherever attendees are encouraged to shingle their butts while wearing the Vision Pro (from pictures, it seems for illustration astir didn’t spell on pinch the ask).

Before you disregard the idea, see this: If you don’t person a kid aliases a dog, “I gotta go; my Vision Pro died” could beryllium a awesome excuse to time off a statement early.

This video comparing Apple Vision Pro manus search to the Meta Quest 3 is mesmerizing.

Holonautic co-founder and developer Dennys Kuhnert says he is “both disappointed and impressed” by the Vision Pro’s capacity and showed disconnected this comparison of the 2 headsets pinch a real-time visualization tool.

As he wrote in different post, “The value and accuracy is awesome but the lag pinch passthrough hands feels presently higher than connected Quest 3. Could beryllium explained by AVP’s very debased passthrough latency... ~11ms vs ~35ms for Q3.”

A guidelines for the Vision Pro.

Apple doesn’t waste a guidelines for the Vision Pro, truthful developer Christian Selig took it upon himself to create one — conscionable for illustration the unofficial YouTube app he made for the headset, too.

This guidelines allows the headset to bent vertically, making it return up a spot little abstraction connected your table arsenic opposed to immoderate different retention options retired there. Selig has uploaded each the creation files onto MakerWorld, truthful you tin 3D people the guidelines for yourself.

What it’s for illustration to make an app for the Vision Pro.

In this question and reply for the Voices of VR podcast, Apollo developer Christian Selig shares his acquisition creating Juno, an unofficial YouTube subordinate he created for the Vision Pro successful only a week’s time.

Despite the mini number of group who ain the headset, he says he’s earned capable from it to bargain “multiple” Vision Pros.

My Vision Pro has nary thought erstwhile I’m talking.

I support a beautiful bushy mustache, and it seems to forestall the headset’s downward-facing cameras from seeing and translating what my rima is doing to my Persona’s real-time expressions during a Vision Pro FaceTime call. Apparently, I’m not alone.

Vision Pro determination time.

If you bought 1 connected time one, the return model is closing now, truthful fto america cognize if you’re deciding to support your headset and why.

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The Vision Pro has Thunderbolt and Lightning (very, very frightening).

Developers study that all of the pieces are detectable for a Thunderbolt connection; it’s conscionable that Apple is limiting it to the 480Mbps max of USB 2.0.