Get the latest tech news

VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future


My visionOS 26 persona. The side of my head really does look like that! If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of wearable devices in front of our eyes, Apple …

In a welcome sign of rapid iteration, Apple has thrown out last year’s algorithm that turned flat photos into remarkably good 3-D ones, and replaced it with the same multi-layered spatial scenes that it’s featuring in lock-screen effects in iOS 26. Right now, it’s awfully unlikely that you and a friend are going to bring your combined $7000 in Vision Pro hardware together just to watch a movie or play checkers, but as more people get devices like this, you’ll need the ability to share widgets and objects and whatever in person, not just remotely. In any event, I was able to manipulate a shared 3-D model of an astronaut in a space suit in collaboration with an Apple representative who was wearing his own Vision Pro, and we walked around it and gestured to it as if it was a real thing, because we both saw the very same VR object.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of Apple

Apple

Photo of future

future

Photo of visionOS

visionOS

Related news:

News photo

Apple enables smart home apps to cut your electricity bills

News photo

Apple to Let iPhone Users Watch Videos on CarPlay Screen While Parked

News photo

Apple's AirPods Pro 2 are on sale for $169 right now