At WWDC 2023, Apple redefined its computing with its new Vision Pro headset. The revolutionary vision powers the Vision Pro headset. It is the first Spatial Computing Operating System in the world. It is designed to support the low latency requirement of spatial computing. It lets the user communicate with digital content so that it feels physically present in your home or office space. If you want to learn about this latest addition to Apple’s impressive list of operating systems, keep reading this.
visionOS is the first operating system specifically designed for “spatial computing.” Like macOS and iOS, it is built in the same building block but has unique features to provide better virtual reality. The key features of visions are given in detail in this guide. Let’s have a look:
In The Workplace
As wordy as it all sounds, you may wonder what it must look like.
VisionOS looks similar to any other virtual reality platform in its simplest form. You have massive windows floating in the space in front of you. Moving your head lets you see different tabs from Safari to Messages. And when you launch the Vision Pro, you get a list of apps to choose from. It’s pretty simple stuff.
Places where visionOS truly shines are in its individual use cases. You can send 3D image files via Messages and display that model right in front of you at every angle possible. This system also responds to the natural lighting around you so that the 3D objects will have shadows befitting your environment.
You can control VisinOs primarily by hand gestures, voice, and heading movement. However, people can connect their Bluetooth peripherals like the Magic Keyboard if they are more likely to prefer a more physical interaction.
Also, this operating system is set to run specific education apps. The one that impressed the users the most was a piece of medical software for looking at renders of the parts of the human body. The announcement video shows an impressive and exploded view of the human heart, complete with ventricles, the pulmonary artery, and the pulmonary vein. There’s also an engineering app for engineering students to help people visualize certain physics phenomena like air flowing over a race car.
On the surface, Apple is launching its version of the Microsoft Hololens with all excellent work tools. But it’s a lot more enhanced.
At Home
Disney Plus will be available alongside over 100+ games via the Apple Arcade platform at its launch. You can also expand your VR screen to massive proportions like you are in an environment similar to a movie theater. 3D movies will also be supported. Users can also have the screen floating in their room, but if they want something more dynamic, the background can be replaced with a different environment like Mt Hood in Oregon or deep space and even under the ocean.
We do wish that Apple showcased more of the gaming side of things. We observed that expanding a game screen to an even larger size is possible to get a better view of it. Gamers won’t have to play with their hands any longer as visionOS will support gamepads, such as the PS5 DualSense controller. Man watching a movie in vision.
Three Dimensional Interface
The vision is a three-dimensional interface, which makes the apps free from the foundation of very small or limited display size and allows you to view them side by side in your surroundings. This means that you won’t need to be confined to the limited display of your screens and, at the same time, can experience your most lovable apps like never before. You can rearrange and resize the apps as per your wish. The
three-dimensional interface in VisionOS
Controller-less Input System
Redesigned App Store
Apple had been secretly working on some fantastic stuff which was finally unveiled. It’s a newly designed App Store where you can find and discover hundreds of new apps specially created for visions and the OS. Moreover, you will also get access to thousands of iPhone and iPad apps you might be acquainted with. These apps operate smoothly, efficiently, and automatically work with the new input system for Vision Pro.
Immersive Environments
Users can grow their world beyond the dimensions with Immersive Environments or their standard physical actual room with stunning and dynamic landscapes that can help them focus on their work or ease clutter in busy spaces while in a completely different scenario.
EyeSight
VisionOS has already gone far ahead of its competition. The Eyesight feature makes it more amazing and exciting, Or maybe creepy; you get to decide that!
The EyeSight feature helps the Vision Pro headset users stay connected with other people around them by that the user is immersed in an experience by revealing their eyes.
Eyesight on Vision Pro
Digital Persona in FaceTime Calls
The Digital Persona is the realistic and dynamic representation of the user’s hand gestures. It faces while on a FaceTime call, allowing others to see you while the Vision Pro is on you.
Optic Id: All New Privacy Feature
Like other Apple products, VisionOS is also designed to keep you and your data under control of the privacy of your data and brings in an all-new security and privacy feature known as Optic ID; it is a secure authentication system that uses the uniqueness of the iris of your eye.
In Visions, Siri Is Accessible.
Being a part of the Apple family, there is no chance that VisionOS could have missed Siri. Siri- Apple’s voice assistance system. While the headset is on the user, the user needs to say Siri, and the Siri- voice assistant will instantly wake up to perform the given tasks.
Summary
Apple wants the Vision Pro to be used as a computer regularly, which can be controlled through eye movement, hand gestures, and voice.
That’s everything you need to know about visions, at least how it is for the everyday user. The rest of it primarily relates to software development. At the end of its keynote, Apple revealed that the operating system would also support the Unity game engine. This could mean that the company is paving the way for developers to come in and create video games for its new headset vision.