Notes on Apple Vision

Introduction

Finally apple has announced its first version AR/VR headset and ecosystem.

• Targeted at power users and developers
• Costs 3500$
• Comes with external battery for a 2 hour device autonomy when not tethered directly to power
• Primary inputs for the systems are your eyes and hand/finger gestures
• As expected, high vertical integration with other apple products, eg, extending the Mac-book laptop with “infinite” screens

Announcement

• Apple Keynote
• Apple - Preparing for VisionOS
• Apple - Learn about VisionOS
  • Get started with building apps for spatial computing
  • Develop your first immersive app
  • Meet Safari for spatial computing
    • The CSS hover will be conscripted by the platform to provide user feedback when you are hovering the page with your eyes
  • Design considerations for vision and motion
  • Build great games for spatial computing
  • Meet SwiftUI for spatial computing

Timeline ⬆️

• 21/06/2023 - SDK is released.
• 05/06/2023 - Apple Vision is announced.

Resources

• VisionOS developer documentation
• Vision PRO headset Figma design kits
• Apple 3D Icon tool

Ideias

• Raw ideias from Stephen Wolfram

  Seems like it's AR time again.. (Some decade [like neural nets] it'll just work) I just looked in my archives and found some notes I emailed to myself in 2012 (with previous [VR] ones from the 1990s) pic.twitter.com/0S3X7ULvmU

  — Stephen Wolfram (@stephen_wolfram) June 2, 2023