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Apple might let you scroll with your eyes in the Vision Pro

2025-05-14T17:41:52-04:00

Apple is testing a feature that will let users scroll through Vision Pro apps using the headset's eye-tracking capability, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Eye-based scrolling will apparently work across all of Apple's built-in apps, and Gurman says the company is working on letting third-party developers use the feature, too. How it would actually function is a mystery, but I could see a system where you have to look at the edge of a page long enough to start scrolling, or focusing on a UI element, then looking above or below it to move a page.

You can do a version of eye-based scrolling with the Dwell Control accessibility feature, …

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Apple will let the Vision Pro ‘see’ for you

2025-05-13T10:59:47-04:00

Apple previewed new Vision Pro accessibility features today that could turn the headset into a proxy for eyesight when they launch in visionOS later this year. The update uses the headset's main camera to magnify what a user sees or to enable live, machine-learning-powered descriptions of surroundings.

The new magnification feature works on virtual objects as well as real-world ones. An example from Apple's announcement shows a first-person view as a Vision Pro wearer goes from reading a zoomed-in view of a real-world recipe book to the Reminders app, also blown up to be easier to read. It's a compelling use for the Vision Pro, freeing up a …

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The Vision Pro Metallica concert video is the best Apple Immersive video yet

2025-03-15T12:02:07-04:00

Metallica puts on a great show in the Vision Pro.

There's a moment in Metallica, the new three-song concert video Apple released for the Vision Pro yesterday, where Metallica lead singer James Hetfield is kneeling on the edge of the stage, engaged with a single fist-pumping audience member. Hetfield leans in to within inches of his face as he and the fan scream, before the singer stands and moves on. The spotlight follows Hetfield away but the camera stays put, lingering as the concert-goer reacts to what just happened. He falls back against the crowd and then pitches forward, steadying himself on the stage, then buries his face in his elbow, crying.

In a lot of ways, Metallica is like an …

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The Vision Pro is getting easier to share with guests, and adding a new iPhone app

2025-02-21T17:34:38-05:00

The Vision Pro app for iOS will let you find new content and queue up downloads for the headset.

One of the big problems with a VR headset is that anything you want to do, you have to do inside it. Apple is looking to tackle that and other Vision Pro pain points with visionOS 2.4, which will offer improvements to the guest user experience and two new apps for finding new things to do and watch, whether you're wearing the headset or not.

The visionOS 2.4 update rolling out in beta to developers starting today also adds Apple Intelligence features to the headset.

Right now, it's hard to find software for the Vision Pro without putting on the headset and doing the search there, but with this update and iOS 18.4 that's getting easier wit …

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Blackmagic’s Vision Pro immersive camera can be yours for only $29,995

2024-12-16T15:46:01-05:00

Blackmagic has announced that its URSA Cine Immersive commercial camera for shooting high-quality 3D immersive video is now available to preorder "direct from Blackmagic Design Offices," with the first deliveries going out in early 2025. The camera, which could enable more immersive content for the Vision Pro, costs $29,995 - or a mere 8.6 Vision Pros.

First revealed in June, the Cine Immersive will let cinematographers shoot 90fps video in stereoscopic 3D at 8160 x 7200 resolution per eye - or more than twice the estimated per-eye resolution of the Vision Pro's screens. They'll be able to edit the footage using the proprietary Apple Immers …

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The Vision Pro’s ultrawide Mac display is very close to being a killer app

2024-12-11T13:41:01-05:00

My favorite dynamic wallpaper floating in the desert. | Screenshot: Mac Virtual Display

Since its release, I've mostly used Apple's Vision Pro like a movie theater. The VR headset is an amazing way to watch Dune - but beyond that, it hasn't really lived up to its potential as a general-purpose computing device.

Today, that's finally starting to change. With the update to visionOS 2.2, Apple is seriously upgrading the headset's ability to work with a Mac. It's probably the closest thing the Vision Pro has to a killer app.

The Vision Pro has been able to mirror the screen of a Mac since day one, but I found the original Mac Virtual Display feature limiting. Text was sharp at low resolutions, but the screen was cramped. I could …

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Apple and Sony are working on Vision Pro support for PSVR 2 controllers

2024-12-08T09:49:56-05:00

Sony’s PSVR2 controller support may be coming to the Vision Pro through a special partnership. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

The Vision Pro could gain support for Sony PSVR 2 controllers soon, according to Mark Gurman in today's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple and Sony apparently planned to announce support for the controllers "weeks ago" but have pushed back the rollout. Under this rumored partnership, Apple would begin selling Sony's controllers, which aren't currently available on their own.

Sony has apparently been working on adding the support for months, while Apple has asked third-party developers if they would take advantage of Sony's VR controllers. That's potentially great news for Vision Pro owners who wish the headset had more gaming chops. ( …

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Belkin’s Vision Pro strap should just come with the headset

2024-11-13T09:00:00-05:00

The Vision Pro VR headset is such an Apple product - meticulously designed and packed with incredible tech, but designed to be used Apple's way, whether you like it or not. For many, that means the headset is aggressively uncomfortable to wear due to its weight distribution. For the last several days, though, I've been testing a solution Apple now sells that's so simple, so obvious, that I'm actually miffed at Apple for not including something like it from the very beginning: the Belkin Head Strap.

Belkin's strap works in tandem with Apple's Solo Knit Band. The Solo Knit Band wraps around your head with an elastic cushion, clamping the head …

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Apple’s reportedly slowing down Vision Pro production, for now

2024-10-23T10:05:34-04:00

A new report from The Information cites "multiple people" involved in making parts for Apple's Vision Pro headset to say that production plans have been scaled back in recent months. This follows a Tim Cook interview published this weekend by WSJ. Magazine, where he said, "Obviously I'd like to sell more," but acknowledged that "At $3,500, it's not a mass-market product."

That aligns with The Information's previous report from this summer, saying Apple has shifted its strategy to focus on making a cheaper headset, which could ship as soon as next year.

According to the report, the company that does the final assembly of Vision Pro headset …

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Watch this one-minute preview of Apple’s first scripted Vision Pro short

2024-10-07T15:54:09-04:00

Apple just released the trailer for Submerged, the first scripted immersive video for the Vision Pro. The short, written and directed by Edward Berger, is set inside a WWII submarine as its crew deals with "a harrowing torpedo attack."

The trailer for Submerged consists of behind-the-scenes shots and fisheye-looking clips from the short, along with a voiceover from Berger, who claims that the immersive format will "change the future of filmmaking."

Berger also says putting on the Vision Pro changes "the way you think about storytelling." One could see how the location - the narrow innards of a submarine - might be both a technical challeng …

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