Apple recently unveiled its Vision Pro headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference in California.
With it, Apple is venturing into a market of head-mounted devices — which are usually just displays, but in this case is more of a complete computer attached to your head — as well as the worlds of virtual reality , augmented reality and mixed reality .
The blending of VR and AR seems to be a key part of Apple’s thinking, with the Vision Pro allowing users to adjust their level of immersion by deciding how much of the real world they can see. This transitioning between the two experiences will probably be a trend for future HMDs. R1 processes information from the cameras, an array of microphones and a LiDAR scanner — which uses a laser to measure distances to different objects — in order to make the headset aware of its surroundings.
But Apple has a history of developing products with increasingly versatile capabilities to sense what’s going on in their real-world surroundings. Likewise, linking the headset to many programming tools demonstrates the company’s desire to tap into an existing community of developers of augmented reality applications.
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