Introducing the Apple Vision Pro headset

The Apple Vision Pro is the apple take on the AR and VR headset place. It's a personal display on your face with all the interface touches you'd expect from Apple, with an operating system that looks like a combination of iOS, MacOS and TVOS. Apple Vision Pro is going for $3,499 and will start shipping early next year, though only in the US.

The device itself looks like other headsets, though the glass front hides cameras and even a curved OLED outer display. The headset is secured to the wearer's head with a wide band and as rumors suggested, there's an external battery pack that connects with a cable and sits in your pocket. There's a large Apple Watch-style digital crown on the right side that lets you tune immersion (the outside world) in and out.

The Vision Pro has three-element lenses that enable 4K resolution, you can swap out lenses, possibly for different vision capabilities. Audio pods are embedded within the band to sit over your ears, and "audio ray tracing" maps and tracks sounds straight to your position. lidar and other sensors on the bottom of the headset track hand and body motions.

The Vision Pro comes with the M2 chip found on Apple's highest-end computers. But a new R1 chip processes all the other headset inputs from 12 cameras, five sensors and six microphones, and sends it to the M2 to reduce lag and get new images to its displays within 12 milliseconds. The Vision Pro uses the new visionOS, which uses iOS, a 3D engine, foveated rendering and other software tricks to make what Apple calls "the first operating system designed from the ground up for spatial computing."

Interior cameras track your facial motion, which is projected to others when on FaceTime and other video chatting apps. Apple Vision Pro can also scan your face to create a digital 3D avatar.

To keep users from being cut off from the outside world, the EyeSight feature uses inside-pointing cameras and the headset's outer display to show your eyes which basically shows people around you what your eyes are focusing on. If you've dialed your immersion all the way on, your eyes will disappear on the outside screen. But you're not completely cut off.

The interface uses hand motions to control the device, though there are also voice controls. It's abit hard to tell how these controls will work, and we'd expect that people will need some time to adapt to not using a mouse and keyboard.

The Vision Pro has Apple's first 3D cameras and can take spatial photos, giving you 3D depth with binaural audio to experience moments with more immersion.

In conclusion, Apple has taken a huge leap of faith to create this product especially with how much apple tends to stick to standard devices but now that they are branching out we definitely can’t wait to see how this product fits into the market!