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In November 2017, Apple acquired Canadian XR company Vrvana for $30 million. Apple's extended reality headset is meant as a bridge to future lightweight AR glasses, which are not yet technically feasible. Senior engineering manager Geoff Stahl, who reports to Rockwell, led the development of its visionOS operating system, after previously working on games and graphics technology at Apple. His successor, Evans Hankey, left the company in 2023. The headset's development experienced a period of uncertainty with the departure of Ive in 2019. Rockwell's team sought to create a headset and worked with Ive's team the decision to reveal the wearer's eyes through a front-facing eye display went over well with the industrial design team.

Rockwell's team helped deliver ARKit in 2017 with iOS 11. Augmented reality and virtual reality (VR) expert and former NASA specialist Jeff Norris was hired in April 2017. The team, called the Technology Development Group, developed an AR demo in 2016 but faced opposition from then-chief design officer Jony Ive and his team. Rockwell formed a team that included Metaio co-founder Peter Meier and Apple Watch manager Fletcher Rothkopf. That year, Apple hired Mike Rockwell from Dolby Laboratories. rumored to be originally motivated by Project Titan. In May 2015, Apple acquired the German augmented reality (AR) company Metaio, originally spun off from Volkswagen. Primarily intended as a standalone device booting visionOS, a derivative of iOS designed to run its own extended reality apps, it can also be wirelessly connected to a Mac.

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Īpple advertises the Vision Pro as a ' spatial computer', where digital media is integrated with the real world and physical inputs, such as motion gestures, eye tracking, and voice input, can be used to interact with the system. It is Apple's first product in another major category since the Apple Watch in 2015. It was announced on June 5, 2023, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, with availability scheduled for early 2024 in the United States and later that year internationally. Apple M2 (10 cores) 3.5 GHz, up to 3.578 TFLOPS ĦDoF inside-out tracking, photogrammetry, and gesture recognition through 12 built-in cameras and lidarĪpple Vision Pro is an upcoming mixed-reality headset developed by Apple Inc.

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