Apple wants to lead a revolution again. The challenge will not be as relatively simple as other of its products that the public knew from day one how they were going to use it. This time it was the company itself that explained how its latest gadget can facilitate work and leisure: an extended reality viewer, of the highest quality and at a high price, called VisionPro. The Cupertino company defined the category of many consumer technology products in the past. Will he be able to do it again?
The CEO of the company, Tim Cook, has saved the last bullet at the World Developers Conference (WWDC). The final rabbit in the top hat with the phrase popularized by the company’s co-founder, Steve Jobs: “one more thing.” But the Vision Pro is not just another thing, but a sophisticated machine that creates impossible universes.
View apps as items in the room. You can fill the space with screens of any size. It is capable of putting the user in any space. They point to things with their hands or fingers, without doing anything else. You can also ask for actions with your voice.
When someone appears, they enter the image, mixing the real and virtual worlds. Any app, from the browser to the maps, is opened and operated without additional devices. He never disconnects from the real world. He looks at the Mac screen and his screen appears in front of him but in a giant size. The uses seem endless. Panoramic photos introduce the user inside the landscape.
The television screen is like having a home theater screen. Also, 3D movies play perfectly. Including spatial sound. The Disney platform will be on the glasses from day one, allowing a more immersive way of viewing its content, with some additional features.
The Vision Pro are loaded with technology. A button for photos, crown. It has two hours of use with an external battery connected magnetically by a cable. Between the two screens it adds 23 million pixels, much more than any 4K screen. It also has spatial sound that distributes throughout the room.
The visor contains internal infrared cameras and leds to distinguish where each eye is looking. In total, there are twelve cameras. And it contains the powerful M2 chip. It scans your face for FaceTime conversations and runs a new operating system called visionOS. It also has a biometric identification system through iris identification. They will cost $3,499 in the United States and will arrive early next year.
But there was more news Apple yesterday completed its transition to Apple Silicon architecture and the final abandonment of Intel chips. The brand’s processors, which integrate memory, graphics and a good number of cores to handle everything with ease, low power consumption and no heating. At last. the only model missing, the Mac Pro, went on to have M2 Ultra 192 GB RAM starting at 8,399
