Vision Pro: Apple’s breakthrough AR headset

Subject: Science and technology

Section: Awareness in IT

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Apple has unveiled the Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset that allows “spatial computing” by using the wearer’s eyes, voice and hands.
The headset is the biggest breakthrough product from Apple since the launch of the iPhone more than 15 years ago, and could mark the next chapter in personal technology.

Vision Pro

Apple’s first major new product category in eight years, the Vision Pro is a headset that the wearer can control with her eyes, hands, and voice, a feature that other headsets do not have.
Vision Pro represents “spatial computing”, and brings “a new dimension to powerful personal technology”, he said.
Vision Pro is essentially an augmented-reality (AR) headset that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital worlds. The device can switch between augmented and full virtual reality (VR) using a dial.
However, Apple did not use the expressions “mixed reality” or “virtual reality” in the presentation.
According to Apple, the Vision Pro allows users to consume and create content in a new way, in the spaces around them.
They can watch movies in 3D, with spatial audio as though they were in a cinema theatre, look at pictures or video, and play video games.
Vision Pro has the ability to see apps overlaid across real-world surroundings. Users can scroll through or select an option by flicking or tapping together their fingers.

Augmented Reality

The real-time integration of digital information with the environment of the user is known as Augmented Reality (AR).
Users of Augmented Reality encounter a real-world environment with created perceptual information superimposed on top of it, as opposed to Virtual Reality (VR), which produces a completely artificial environment.
Using Augmented Reality, users can receive more information or have natural environments aesthetically altered in some way.
The main advantage of Augmented Reality is that it successfully combines digital and three-dimensional (3D) elementswith how people perceive the real world.
Through a device like a smartphone or glasses, Augmented Reality provides the user with visual elements, sound, and other sensory information.
In order to provide a seamless experience where digital information modifies the user’s view of the actual environment, this information is layered onto the device. A part of the natural world might be hidden or added to by the superimposed information.

Applications

AR has several applications, from entertainment to aid in decision-making.
The most well-known consumer Augmented Reality (AR) devices right now include Google Glass, smartphone games, and heads-up displays (HUDs) on automobile windscreens.
But a lot of other businesses, like healthcare, public safety, gas and oil, travel, and marketing, also use this technology.