Virtual Reality

The New Yorker stepped inside a VR school, where students wear headsets for two to three hours a day.

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.

He says Meta can turn “any flat surface” into a virtual keyboard capable of 120WPM speeds. That’s fast! Meta’s 2020 “PinchType” averaged just 12WPM, though the company’s “surface touch typing” averaged 73WPM that same year. I’m not seeing a research paper for today’s brag yet.

From the last issue of Command Line:

Yes, the Vision Pro looks impressive, but I encourage you to take this Apple blog post featuring opinions from developers who have attended the company’s Vision Pro labs with a grain of salt.

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.

You can see apparent pictures and specs of the headset in this UploadVR article, but an article on a Chinese website that shared information about the device has seemingly been pulled.

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.

Useful? Probably not, but hey, people made it happen!

That could be Apple’s official name for the Apple Vision Pro’s external battery pack. What a way to brand a battery attached by a cord! If only it magically offered more than two hours of battery life.

Mike White, who Disney appointed last year to oversee its metaverse ambitions, has left the company, according to a report from The Ankler.

I Expect You To Die 3 is coming to the Meta Quest 2 (and Pro) headsets on August 17th for $25, and Windows (via Steam) on September 28th.

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.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared some screenshots of the form developers are having to fill out for the headset’s developer kits. I’m guessing the official ordering process for customers will be much more Apple-y when you can actually buy the device yourself next year.

Apple leaker @aaronp613 said the company pushed firmware that references two additional model numbers for the headset’s battery. I’m not aware of Apple publicly discussing other potential batteries for its headset, so I wouldn’t read too much into this just yet. But it is interesting to consider the possibility of additional batteries, even if they don’t actually come to market.