Finally, Apple announced the date on which the Apple Vision Pro glasses will be available, and as expected, the glasses will be available only in the United States, starting from February 2, taking into account that pre-order starts from Friday, January 19. Are you ready to pay $3499 on Friday? Huge price! But I know that the beginning is only for the adventurous, and for sure within the next year everything will change.
Apple Vision Pro will be available starting Friday, February 2, in all US Apple Stores and on the US Apple Store online.
What is Apple Vision Pro?
A revolutionary spatial computing device that transforms the way people work, collaborate, communicate, reminisce and be entertained. Vision Pro seamlessly integrates digital content with the physical world and opens up powerful spatial experiences using visionOS, controlled through the most natural and intuitive inputs – users' eyes, hands and voices. The Apple App Store provides users with access to more than a million compatible apps across iOS and iPadOS, as well as new experiences that take advantage of the unique capabilities of Vision Pro.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said:
Apple Vision Pro is our most advanced electronics device. This revolutionary and enchanting user interface will revolutionize the way we communicate, accomplish, and interact with the world around us.
Revolutionary operating system and user interface
Apple Vision Pro runs visionOS, which is built on decades of engineering innovation. visionOS delivers powerful spatial experiences, opening up new opportunities at work and at home. Featuring an all-new 3D user interface and an input system controlled entirely by users' eyes, hands and voices, it makes navigation magical.
Intuitive gestures allow users to interact with apps by simply looking at them, tapping their fingers to select, flicking their wrist to scroll, or using a virtual keyboard or dictation to type. With Siri, users can quickly open or close apps, stream media, and more.
visionOS also has dynamic, beautiful environments – such as Haleakalā National Park, Yosemite National Park, and even the surface of the moon – to help them focus or reduce clutter in crowded spaces. With available environments users can go beyond physical room dimensions. With the use of the Digital Crown, users can control how present or immersed they are in the environment.
The 3D UI allows developers to edit apps from the confines of the screen so they can appear side by side at any size, providing the perfect workspace and creating an infinite canvas for multi-working and collaboration.
There are more than a million iOS and iPadOS apps available on Apple Vision Pro and they work automatically with the new input system. Vision Pro also has a brand new App Store where users can find apps that provide spatial computing experiences unlike any other platform. Apps can be arranged anywhere and enlarged to the perfect size, while allowing the user to remain present in their space.
Endless palette for productivity:
With key productivity and collaboration apps like Fantastical, Freeform, and JigSpace, and apps from Microsoft 365 and Slack, Apple Vision Pro is the perfect productivity tool for everyday tasks. Apps can be displayed side-by-side at any size for maximum efficiency, and users can use the Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad to create the perfect workspace. With Mac Virtual Display, users can even bring powerful Mac capabilities to Vision Pro, creating a massive, private, portable 4K display, perfect for professional workflows.
The ultimate entertainment experience:
Apple Vision Pro features ultra-high-resolution displays that deliver more than 100 million pixels per eye, enabling users to watch movies and TV shows from Apple TV+, Disney+, Max and other services on a screen that appears 150 feet long with support for HDR content. In the Apple T app, users can access more than 8 180D titles with amazing depth wherever they are. Vision Pro also launches Apple Immersive Video, a brilliant new entertainment format developed by Apple that puts users inside the action with XNUMX-degree XNUMXD XNUMXK recordings captured with Spatial Audio. Users can also enjoy new interactive experiences such as Encounter Dinosaurs.
New gaming experiences:
Players can access games on the Apple Store, including more than 250 titles on Apple Arcade. Popular games like NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition and Sonic Dream Team can be played on any size screen they want with surround sound and support for popular game controllers. New spatial games, such as Game Room and What the Golf? and Super Fruit Ninja, a powerful capability of Apple Vision Pro to transform the space around players, providing unique and engaging gaming experiences.
Bringing memories back to life:
Apple Vision Pro can enable users to capture and relive their favorite memories in entirely new ways. Spatial photos and videos transport users to a special moment in time, and Spatial Audio makes the experience incredibly interesting. When users are on the go, they can capture spatial video on iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max and bring it to life on Vision Pro. Users can also view all their photos and videos in life size with brilliant color and stunning detail, including a panorama that expands and wraps around the user, making them feel like they are right where they were taken.
FaceTime becomes spatial:
FaceTime on Apple Vision Pro takes advantage of the space around the user so everyone in the call appears at normal volume, while Spatial Audio makes it seem like each person's voice is coming from their location. If a user is wearing Vision Pro while using FaceTime, they will appear as themselves, while others joining from a Mac, iPad, or iPhone will appear in tiles containing the FaceTime stream.
Custom design:
Apple Vision Pro builds on Apple's innovation and expertise in designing high-performance products and has packed an incredible amount of technology into a beautiful, compact design that uses the most advanced materials possible to achieve ambitious goals for performance, mobility and wearability.
Apple Vision Pro Eyewear is designed as customizable hardware so users can customize their fit. A single piece of 3D adhesive glass gently curves around the user's face and flows into the aluminum alloy frame. The liner is made of soft fabric and comes in a range of shapes and sizes, and bends to fit the user's face for a precise fit. The elastic bands ensure that the sound stays close to the user's ears, while the included elastic bands allow users to find their optimal fit. For those who need vision correction, ZEISS Optical lenses are available by prescription or as reading glasses that magnetically attach to Vision Pro.
Unparalleled innovation
Apple Vision Pro is designed to deliver incredible computing performance in a compact wearable form factor. It features a revolutionary high-resolution display system built on top of Apple Silicon chips, and uses micro-OLED technology to combine 23 million pixels into two displays, each the size of a postage stamp, with a wide color gamut and high dynamic range. This technological breakthrough, combined with custom lenses that allow for amazing sharpness and clarity, and advanced Spatial Audio, this combination delivers undeniably stunning experiences.
Apple Vision Pro also features a high-performance eye tracking system that uses high-speed cameras and a ring of LEDs that project invisible light patterns onto the user's eyes for responsive, smooth input. To help the user stay connected with the people around them, Apple has designed a new and innovative feature called EyeSight. When someone approaches someone wearing the Vision Pro, the device appears transparent – allowing the user to see through while also exposing the user's eyes. When a user is immersed in an environment or using an application, EyeSight gives visual cues to others about what the user is focusing on.
The revolutionary display, advanced audio experiences, high-performance eye tracking, and more are powered by Apple silicon in a dual-chip design. The M2 chip delivers powerful standalone performance, while the all-new R1 chip handles input from 12 cameras, five sensors, and six microphones to ensure your content sounds It appears as if it appears directly in front of the user's eyes.
In the end
We are happy that Apple has finally announced the launch date of a new revolutionary device. The Apple Vision Pro undoubtedly represents the beginning of a new era in spatial computing. With its revolutionary capabilities and innovative design, it will indeed have the power to change the way we communicate, accomplish and interact with the world around us.
We know that this is only the beginning, and we are waiting for the development of this project, and the release of lower-priced, more advanced versions. If you ask me whether you will be able to buy Apple Vision Pro glasses, I will tell you, “I can, I’m still thinking :)”
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