SPECIAL REPORT
Vision Pro preview
40 years after the Mac made its debut, Apple is reinventing computing –again!
WRITTEN BY ROB MEAD-GREEN
Image credit: Apple Inc
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y the time you read this, the first US customers for Apple’s new Vision Pro will be getting their hands on the headset – arguably the most revolutionary product the company has launched since the iPhone arrived in 2007 and the Mac made its debut 40 years ago.
While the jury’s still out on whether the Vision Pro will prove successful, it heralds the arrival of ‘spatial computing’ – Apple’s term for anew way of using devices that’s fully immersive, while also delivering the familiarity and intuitiveness that we’ve come to expect from the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Central to the Vision Pro’s way of doing things is anew OS: visionOS, which takes everything you know about macOS, iOS and iPadOS and then cunningly places it inside in a threedimensional (3D) space. To use visionOS, you will, of course, need to wear the Vision Pro, with the headset placing its interface right in front of your eyes through the use of the stereoscopic 3D display system. You’ll be able to read our first impressions of the new Vision Pro on p13, but let’s start by talking about all the new things the Vision Pro, and OS offers – from Spatial Video to the OS itself.