Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro has officially been given FCC approval in the United States. The FCC today published filings from Apple and test reports, confirming that Vision Pro can be sold in the United States.

As previously announced, pre-orders are set to begin on Friday, January 19 with a full release to follow on Friday, February 2.

Vision Pro Immersive Video makes it the ultimate entertainment device, according to Apple, as the company highlighted the entertainment capabilities of its spatial computer.

The company previewed “immersive, first-of-its-kind original stories, produced with Apple Immersive Video” which were first demonstrated to the media in the form of Alicia Keys: Rehearsal Room …

Apple supplier Goertek has firmed up plans to move a substantial amount of production from China to Vietnam, after the Cupertino company urged it to do so. The company currently makes AirPods, and is also believed to have been lined up as a Vision Pro supplier.

The company said last year that it had been receiving almost daily queries about how quickly it could move production from China to Vietnam …

Vision Pro pre-orders are set to open on January 19 with the first deliveries slated for February 2. Ahead of the all-new device arriving in the real world, here are the productivity, streaming, and other Vision Pro apps with the new spatial experience you can expect at launch.

There’s a lot of speculation at present about what clues Vision Pro availability may give regarding the popularity of the device.

Whatever happens, we can expect breathless headlines about Vision Pro being either a runaway success or a flop, depending on how quickly or slowly delivery dates slip …

There are likely going to be a lot of people hoping to get an early Vision Pro demo, but if you do succeed in reserving a slot (details below), we now have a good idea of what to expect.

Larger stores will have dedicated sit-down Vision Pro demo areas, with more than a dozen headsets available for customers to try …

Ahead of Apple Vision Pro pre-orders beginning in just a few days, more details have emerged about what to expect. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has shared new information on the M2 chip inside Vision Pro, the virtual keyboard for visionOS, and more.

Apple’s first new flagship product in almost a decade is just around the corner, with pre-orders for Apple Vision Pro beginning next Friday. The company is promising a new spatial computing era, but is the mixed reality (XR) headset a game-changer product or a potential privacy nightmare? Answer: Maybe both…

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Apple Vision Pro pre-orders are a week away, and Apple is sharing new information about the buying process. An iPhone or iPad with Face ID will be needed to determine the best fitting hardware at checkout. For those who wear glasses, Apple has also shared more details about the process for ordering ZEISS optical inserts.

Vision Pro is set to launch in the United States on February 2, with pre-orders beginning on Friday, January 19. According to a new report from Ming-Chi Kuo, however, you might have to act very quickly if you actually want to get a Vision Pro on launch date.

The first claimed Vision Pro competitor has been announced, in the form of the Xreal Air 2 Ultra. The device is powered by the shiny new spatial computing chip Qualcomm announced on Friday, and costs just a fifth of the price of Vision Pro.

Update: See the hands-on video at the bottom for a sense of what they are like to use …

We’re seeing a succession of companies announce headset or glasses products at CES 2024, with the ASUS AirVision M1 glasses the latest of these.

So far, none of the three companies to announce have sought to take on Vision Pro with a truly comparable product, and the AirVision M1 glasses don’t change that …

While Apple announced a handful of new details about Vision Pro yesterday, there are still a lot of things we don’t know. An update to Xcode, however, appears to have at least revealed that Vision Pro features 16GB of RAM inside.

We saw the first potential Vision Pro competitor yesterday, in the form of the $699 Xreal Air 2 Ultra – and Sony has also now announced its own device. Interestingly, it doesn’t yet appear to have a name.

As with the Xreal glasses, how much competition the Sony headset will pose to Vision Pro depends on who would be buying it, and for what reason …

On the heels of announcing pre-order and launch date information this morning, Apple has shared a new ad for Vision Pro. The fast-paced ad features clips of characters in popular movies and TV shows over the years putting on “headsets” of different designs.

It’s also a play on the first iPhone ad from 2007…

Apple has released Xcode version 15.2, adding support for creating Apple Vision Pro apps. Apple’s integrated development environment with Vision Pro app support was previously only available in beta.

Apple Vision Pro officially has pre-order and launch dates as of today, and now we know how the public will get to try Apple’s first spatial computer as well. Starting February 2 at 8 a.m., Apple retail stores will begin offering customers Vision Pro demos.

One of the more divisive features of Vision Pro is “Persona,” which Apple describes as a digital representation of a person created using machine learning techniques.

In today’s Vision Pro press release, Apple clarifies that the Persona feature will be considered a “beta” feature when it launches next month.

Apple has shared a few details on what kind of games and content will be available for Vision Pro. According to the company, there will be a collection of new “spatial games” available for Vision Pro, as well as a vast category of 3D movies.

Apple has announced a handful of new details about Vision Pro today, including availability and pre-order information. Apple has also now provided more detailed information about Vision Pro’s battery life.

Apple has officially announced Vision Pro pre-orders with the first devices shipping at the start of February. Along with the launch details, we now know everything that comes in the Vision Pro box that starts at $3,499.