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When Apple unveils its mixed reality headset on Monday, there’s one use case that Mac users will especially find interesting. If they pull it off, I think Reality Pro may be poised to become the ultimate Mac display that Apple would never make.

At WWDC next week, Apple is expected to announce its highly anticipated headset with virtual reality and augmented reality features. Alongside the actual hardware for the so-called “Reality Pro” headset, however, Apple will also announce the product’s underlying software platform. This software will reportedly be called xrOS, and it marks Apple’s first major new software platform since it unveiled watchOS for the Apple Watch.

xrOS will include a number of revolutionary features for the Reality Pro headset, such as immersive media consumption, macOS integration, and more.

You may have heard by now that Apple is working on a mixed reality headset. Anyone who hasn’t yet will catch up on Monday. In the meantime, we’ve got three days to ponder how this thing will go down before it’s the new reality.

Ahead of Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote on Monday, the last-minute leaks and rumors are in full swing – and that includes faked ones. With that in mind, you might see a Geekbench result that purports to be from Apple’s Reality Pro headset making the rounds this morning. Just a little bit of research (and common sense), however, quickly shows that it’s faked.

Earlier this year, Apple added dozens of new jobs focused on engineers and scientists working with artificial intelligence. To spice things up further, the company recently added a new job opening to its website – this time specifically looking for software engineers with knowledge of generative AI and mixed reality environments.

I won’t be buying Reality Pro. That’s partly down to the anticipated price, but also because I haven’t yet found either augmented or virtual reality to be in any way compelling.

Cute, yes. Impressive, also yes. But I can’t remember the last time I used an AR app, and while I did buy a VR headset, I also can’t remember the last time I dug it out of the back of a drawer …

Alright, Apple. Pack it up, show’s over. Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a surprise announcement, unveiling the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset. The reveal comes just *checks calendar* four days before Apple is set to officially announce its high-end mixed reality headset. So much for Apple’s headset hype, I guess.

Hello Games founder this week tweeted two Apple emoji, interpreted as potentially teasing two upcoming announcements. A No Man’s Sky Mac app was promised at last year’s WWDC, and has today launched. That accounts for one Apple emoji.

The second one is widely assumed to relate to No Man’s Sky landing on the upcoming Reality Pro headset …

Just a few days before Apple officially unveils Reality Pro, an Oppo MR headset has been announced – but it will only be available in China, and is aimed solely at developers.

The Oppo MR Glass Developer Edition has the same mixed-reality (MR) focus, reflected in the name, and the company’s long-term goal is very much in line as that rumored for Apple Glasses …

Apple is most definitely unveiling the long-rumored Reality Pro at WWDC on Monday, their first new product segment in years. There have been countless rumors about the device detailing software features, functionality, and the eye-watering $3,000 price tag but, unlike most Apple rumor waves, very little on the design.

In anticipation of the event, we have compiled every rumor and every patent and made a realistic look at what we could expect on Monday.

We’re in the final days of Apple headset hype (at least we hope), and that means there’s still time to make predictions. Yesterday it was a potential tease for No Man’s Sky on what could be called Reality Pro. Now it’s time for Beat Saber speculation.

Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it will be great. Apple’s mixed reality headset is, by all accounts, especially difficult to produce, yet Apple believes it has something special. That’s the message from the latest report by The Information, which details just how elaborate and expensive manufacturing the headset has been. The rundown on the state of actually making the headset comes on the near eve of Apple finally unveiling what it’s been working on for years.

In the run-up to WWDC next week, Apple has once again leaked a reference to its xrOS software platform of the Reality Pro headset. As spotted by Steve Troughton-Smith, the latest xrOS reference from Apple has popped up in App Store Connect for developers…

We’re less than a week away of WWDC 2023 and Apple continues to drop not-so-subtle hints at the impending debut of the Reality Pro headset. In a new blog post on the Apple Developer website, Apple teases the upcoming event and invites developers to tune in and learn how to “code new worlds.”

The tech community is collectively on the edge of our seats as we zoom toward the expected unveiling of Apple’s mixed reality headset. With just days to go, display analyst Ross Young has shared what he believes will be the specs for the two displays found inside the headset.

Whether or not we expect to buy, I suspect most of us would like to at least try Apple’s upcoming AR/VR headset. But the availability of Reality Pro demos is likely to be limited, even after the product goes on sale toward the end of the year.

It may even be that Apple takes a similar approach to the original gold Apple Watch – where you not only had to make an appointment, but one that took place off the main sales floor …

I spent part of Friday night attending a concert in virtual reality. It wasn’t very good. By this time next week, however, Apple is expected to have already unveiled its mixed reality headset. I’m hoping part of the pitch includes Apple Music.

Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman got to try out a prototype of the upcoming Meta Quest 3 mixed-reality headset, and likely the closest competition with Apple’s Reality Pro.

So far, most renders of Reality Pro have shown a rather bulky device, almost as thick as the Quest 2, but the fact that the Meta Quest 3 is notably slimmer could suggest that Apple’s headset may be sleeker than expected …

Apple is widely expected to introduce its long rumored mixed reality headset as part of WWDC 2023. This comes as a surprise to few in part because Apple has been singing the praises of augmented reality since at least WWDC 2017. That’s when Apple began laying the groundwork for technology used in the headset through developer tools on the iPhone and iPad.

Apple’s next big keynote address is fast approaching, and everyone expects to finally see the long-rumored mixed reality headset unveiled. While it’s hard to resist the appeal of a brand new technology category from Apple, the rumored price point could be prohibitive for even the most enthusiastic potential customers. With prices that make even the 1TB iPhone 14 Pro Max look like a value, how high could the price be before you decide you’re out on Apple’s headset?

Apple is expected to unveil its mixed reality headset at WWDC in less than two weeks. Shifting from a focus on iPhone analysis, CIRP is out with a research note discussing what Apple Reality Pro adoption could look like by comparing it to Apple Watch, AirPods, and HomePod ownership.