June 10, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
visionOS 2 brings new spatial computing experiences to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional
Highly effective new capabilities come to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional simply months after its U.S. launch, together with a brand new approach to flip favourite photographs into spatial photographs, new gestures for navigating visionOS, and extra methods for builders to make the most of spatial computing
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right now previewed visionOS 2, a significant replace to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional that introduces a robust method for customers to create spatial photographs with the pictures already of their library, intuitive hand gestures to simply entry necessary data at a look, and new options for Mac Digital Show, Journey Mode, and Visitor Consumer. Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can shortly and simply discover their favourite spatial photographs within the redesigned Pictures app, handle data throughout all of their accounts with the brand new Passwords app, entry new privateness instruments in Safari, and expertise new capabilities in fashionable apps, together with Apple TV and Mindfulness.
With greater than 2,000 spatial apps designed for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, and greater than 1.5 million appropriate iOS and iPadOS apps, visionOS 2 permits builders to take additional benefit of spatial computing with new instruments, and makes it simpler to create all-new app experiences which can be extra volumetric and shareable.
“Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional delivers revolutionary experiences for customers and builders, and we’re excited to advance spatial computing even additional with visionOS 2 simply months after its preliminary launch,” mentioned Mike Rockwell, Apple’s vice chairman of the Imaginative and prescient Merchandise Group. “From navigating visionOS extra seamlessly to pushing the boundaries of how customers join with reminiscences, and enhancements to key Imaginative and prescient Professional apps, we are able to’t await customers to expertise the vary of latest capabilities with visionOS 2. And with a sturdy set of instruments that allow builders to create richer spatial apps, visionOS 2 makes Imaginative and prescient Professional much more highly effective.”
Create and Relive Beautiful Spatial Reminiscences in All‑New Methods
Spatial photographs on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional carry unimaginable depth and realism to favourite moments with household and pals. With visionOS 2, customers can revisit previous reminiscences by creating spatial photographs immediately from their library within the Pictures app. visionOS makes use of superior machine studying to remodel a 2D picture into a stupendous spatial picture that actually involves life on Imaginative and prescient Professional. Customers can share their spatial photographs with family members to view on Imaginative and prescient Professional, or use SharePlay within the Pictures app with their spatial Persona and luxuriate in their panoramas, spatial movies, and extra — all whereas feeling like everyone seems to be in the identical bodily area.
Capturing spatial movies on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and iPhone 15 Professional permits customers to carry particular moments to life and relive them as if they’re again within the second. Later this yr, Canon will provide a brand-new spatial lens for its fashionable EOS R7 digital digicam to seize attractive spatial video, even in difficult lighting circumstances. An replace to Remaining Minimize Professional will allow creators to edit spatial movies on their Mac and add immersive titles and results to their initiatives, and with the Vimeo app designed for Imaginative and prescient Professional, customers will be capable to add and share spatial movies for others to find and luxuriate in.
New Hand Gestures and Productiveness Options Carry Extra Capabilities to visionOS
visionOS launched a revolutionary spatial interface that customers management with simply their eyes, arms, and voice. visionOS 2 makes navigating Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional sooner and simpler for customers to entry key features with new hand gestures to get to steadily used options like Dwelling View and Management Middle. New gestures permit customers to see necessary data at a look, like the present time and battery stage, and carry out actions like adjusting the quantity.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional productiveness instruments get new capabilities with visionOS 2. Later this yr, Mac Digital Show will characteristic a better decision and bigger dimension — creating an ultra-wide show that’s equal to 2 4K displays aspect by aspect. To create the proper workspace, visionOS 2 additionally provides mouse help for extra workflow choices, and Imaginative and prescient Professional will now reveal the consumer’s bodily Magic Keyboard — even when they’re absolutely immersed in an Atmosphere or app.
Key Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional experiences have been enhanced in visionOS 2. Customers can now personalize their Dwelling View by rearranging apps and inserting them wherever they need, together with their appropriate iPhone and iPad apps. Journey Mode provides help for trains, so vacationers can expertise their favourite apps on the go and even dial in an Atmosphere like Bora Bora to remodel their bodily environment. For these moments when a consumer needs to share their Imaginative and prescient Professional, a member of the family or colleague may be added as a Visitor Consumer and have their eye and hand knowledge saved for 30 days.
Highly effective Instruments Unlock Thrilling Methods for Builders and Creators to Construct Progressive New Experiences
Builders have already constructed superb app experiences for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional that make the most of the distinctive capabilities of spatial computing throughout a big selection of classes. visionOS 2 contains new APIs and frameworks that assist builders take their apps even additional by making it simpler to create apps and video games which can be extra volumetric and introduce new shareable experiences. HealthKit additionally involves Imaginative and prescient Professional, giving builders new methods to create progressive well being and health experiences that make the most of the infinite canvas in visionOS.
1640 LLC, developer of the app The Museum That By no means Was, is utilizing new volumetric APIs in visionOS 2 to make it simpler so as to add extra immersive 3D objects to its app and new methods for customers to work together with their content material. New instruments like TabletopKit allow builders to shortly construct shared and collaborative app experiences centered round a desk, like board video games or a producing workstation. GRL Video games is utilizing TabletopKit to create Haunted Chess, a homicide thriller board sport the place gamers use 3D chess items and holographic playing cards to assist resolve the thriller. These apps work nice with spatial Persona for shared experiences by no means earlier than attainable.
Enterprise builders are already constructing world-class visionOS apps for every little thing from coaching and simulation to mission design and administration. New instruments in visionOS 2 allow builders to increase capabilities within the healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, and different industries. Builders together with Scandit AG and TeamViewer are utilizing new APIs like Barcode Scanning and Object Monitoring to assist organizations additional enhance day-to-day operations.
Apple Immersive Video is a storytelling format that leverages 3D 8K video with a 180-degree area of view and Spatial Audio to move viewers to the middle of the motion. The Apple TV app is house to a rising slate of Apple Immersive movies and sequence, together with Journey from Apple TV+ and Alicia Keys: Rehearsal Room. Later this yr, Blackmagic Design will launch the first-ever commercially accessible digicam system, and an replace to its post-production software program DaVinci Resolve Studio, to help Apple Immersive Video, giving skilled filmmakers around the globe instruments to create exceptional tales with this ultra-immersive storytelling format.
Further options in visionOS 2 embrace:
- Whereas in Safari, customers can watch movies in an Atmosphere, together with on fashionable websites resembling YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon. Whereas scrolling by webpages, customers can faucet on panoramic photographs and immerse themselves because the picture wraps round them. Siri may also learn and communicate the content material of a webpage whereas customers multitask.
- The Apple TV app brings help for multiview to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional for the final word sports-viewing expertise. Later this yr, followers will be capable to watch as much as 5 simultaneous streams to allow them to hold monitor of all their favourite sports activities and groups.
- To assist customers obtain calm and focus, the Mindfulness app features a new functionality known as Observe Your Respiration that presents dynamic visible animations and sounds that reply to the consumer’s respiration patterns.
- Systemwide Stay Captions assist everybody — together with customers who’re deaf or laborious of listening to — observe together with spoken dialogue in stay conversations and in audio from apps.1
- Customers can view content material on their Imaginative and prescient Professional with AirPlay from their iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Availability
The developer preview of visionOS 2 is accessible to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com beginning right now. For extra data, go to apple.com/visionos/visionos-2-preview. Options are topic to vary. Some options might not be accessible in all areas or all languages, and appropriate {hardware} and software program could also be required.
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