AR

Per an email sent to Magic Leap developers, the 2018 mixed reality headset will be officially retired December 31st, 2024, as the company focuses on updates to the Magic Leap 2 and future products. On top of no longer selling the ML1, that includes the following:

9to5Mac posted this clip with even more system sounds included in the visionOS beta 3 update released today.

It’s included in the beta 3 release of visionOS, as shared by @M1Astra. It’s short, echoey, has some sci-fi vibes, and sounds inspired by the classic Mac chime. I can see a vintage Macintosh SE making this boot sound while floating through space. We’ll see if this one sticks until the Vision Pro launches next year.

Two companies, BOE Technology and SeeYa Technology, raised their hands in interest to, at scale, build specialty Micro-OLED screens, The Information reports.

Windows Report published new leaked images of the Lenovo Legion Go, its rumored Steam Deck competitor, and one image shows how the device may connect to AR glasses so you can play a game projected on a screen in the air.

With developer kits apparently going out, it was inevitable that someone would get some time inside one of Apple’s Vision Pro headsets without official authorization, and Apple Insider says a “fan” allowed them about two hours with a unit.

Remember when we thought the Vision Pro would be called the Reality Pro? That was because of some sneaky shell company trademark filings by (probably) Apple last year.

Super apps aren’t the only tech obsession that Silicon Valley can’t let go of; I guess the artist formerly known as Facebook still has money to burn on trying to make smart glasses happen. (RIP Google Glass, Project Iris. Thoughts and prayers to Snap Spectacles.)

Reported Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, saying sessions have been underfilled so far. Given how careful Apple is being with the prerelease headsets a slow rollout of test units isn’t surprising, but it may mean apps take longer than expected to adjust to a newly augmented reality.

We’ve known the date for Meta’s next developer event since the company revealed the details of its Quest 3 headset, and now there’s more information available.

Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth was asked that question in an AMA he held over Instagram Stories on his profile on Thursday evening. His response:

Based on a new trailer for Space Invaders: World Defense, it looks like you’ll wave around your phone to blast giant AR versions of the classic arcade game aliens. If you want to pre-register for the game on Android ahead of its expected summer release, you can do that now.

Alex Heath builds on reporting at Insider in this week’s Command Line, noting that Google’s interest in AR / VR after jumping out to an early lead with Cardboard and supporting 360 video in YouTube is... meh.

Testut, who created the Delta emulator and alternative iOS app store Alt Store, posted a tantalizing toot showing what looks like an emulator museum running on the Vision Pro SDK.

RealityScan came to iOS last year, and now it’s available on Android. Epic says more than 200,000 people downloaded the iOS app.

In a pair of tweets, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Apple would “aggressively” upgrade hardware specs with an eye to the ecosystem around its $3,499 headset.

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman is again highlighting Apple Vision Pro successors. That includes a 2nd-gen Vision Pro with a faster processor, as well as a cheaper one that could arrive by late 2025, with a two-product split mirroring Apple’s phones, laptops, and tablets.

In Apple’s WWDC Platforms State of the Union video, the headset is shown on a table with what looks like a USB-C dongle, as pointed out by MacRumors. It could be a way to connect the headset to a Mac for development, a more convenient power connection than the battery pack, or maybe some kind of Apple-only diagnostic tool.