Or iPad, Mac, or any AirPlay-enabled device, including smart TVs. According to Apple’s website, the Vision Pro will support 720p AirPlay mirroring, however earlier on Friday, it said it would support 1080p AirPlay.
Correction, Friday, January 19th, 2023, 8:11PM ET: The description on Apple’s website changed after this post was originally published, and it has been updated to note the new resolution listed.
Apple’s uploaded a full guided tour of the Vision Pro onto YouTube. I had an in-person demo earlier this week, and this video is sort of like a speed-run of many of the things that I saw. (I also got to see the butterfly land on my finger.) Granted, this is an even more controlled setting but you get a sense of the interface and some of the things you can do.
That said, it doesn’t really convey what screens or spatial photos truly look like — nor does it address the physicality of the headset itself.
They’re eligible for 25 percent off the $3,499 headset, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, meaning the cost for Apple staffers is around $2,600 (though Gurman says that’s before “taxes and options.”)
In Super Fruit Ninja, you’ll use your hands to chop up fruit, according to a writeup on Apple’s website. I can see how it might be fun, but I don’t know if it will be $3,499 fun — especially when I can still just play Fruit Ninja on my phone.
In an interview with Venturebeat, Ross Rosenberg claims that Apple can’t match the level of precision that Magic Leap’s tech can provide:
“What Apple has shown, as I’m sure you’ve seen, is much more about watching a streaming movie or a Facetime call, where you don’t need nearly as much accuracy. That’s a very different space.”
The augmented reality company was recently granted $590 million in additional debt relief funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, as Apple readies its Vision Pro headset for launch on February 2nd.
I know what I saw, but I’m still trying to figure out where this headset fits in real life.
You can look through the FCC filings here. (It’s lots of tests and reports, so it may not be the most interesting reading.)
Pre-orders open on Friday ahead of the device’s launch on February 2nd.
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Caddy is a free visualizer tool that utilizes hand-tracking to interact with 3D CAD models — allowing users to “grab” individual components, and measure both real and digital objects like you’re operating Tony Stark’s sci-fi workbench.
Every Meta Quest VR headset released to date is currently supported and it even has a collaborative mode for working on projects as a group.
