Apple’s WWDC keynote promised the upcoming launch of visionOS 2.0, however Apple Intelligence was conspicuously absent for house owners of the $3,499 headset.
Fortunately a brand new report suggests the Imaginative and prescient Professional will not be ignored within the chilly in any case. In his newest Energy On e-newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says unequivocally that “Apple Intelligence is coming to the Imaginative and prescient Professional”.
“I’m informed that Apple is actively engaged on bringing the options to the gadget, however it received’t occur this yr,” Gurman explains.
“From a expertise standpoint, the headset has greater than sufficient reminiscence (16 gigabytes) to run the expertise.
“And the options, together with notification prioritization, writing instruments, an OpenAI chatbot and the brand new Siri, make sense for the headset — particularly if Apple continues to place the Imaginative and prescient Professional as a tool for getting work finished and dealing with pc duties.”
Do not anticipate the HomePod to get Apple Intelligence
Gurman additionally notes the similarities between visionOS and the iPadOS platform it is based mostly on, and notes that the transfer “may tax Apple’s still-expanding cloud-computing infrastructure.”
“Fears of overburdening the servers are one purpose the corporate has restricted the AI options to more moderen gadgets. However provided that the Imaginative and prescient Professional hasn’t offered in giant portions, that is probably not a giant concern,” he says.
Nonetheless, do not anticipate your HomePod to get smarter by means of Apple Intelligence. In the identical e-newsletter, Gurman factors to Apple’s work on a new robotic gadget as proof the HomePod is unlikely to get Apple Intelligence options.
He additionally notes the HomePod is a “low-volume” gadget, and that Apple Intelligence requires an excessive amount of RAM than the HomePod and HomePod Mini can supply.
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