January 8, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional out there within the U.S. on February 2
The period of spatial computing is right here — pre-orders start Friday, January 19
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment introduced Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will likely be out there starting Friday, February 2, in any respect U.S. Apple Retailer places and the U.S. Apple Retailer on-line. Imaginative and prescient Professional is a revolutionary spatial laptop that transforms how folks work, collaborate, join, relive reminiscences, and luxuriate in leisure. Imaginative and prescient Professional seamlessly blends digital content material with the bodily world and unlocks highly effective spatial experiences in visionOS, managed by probably the most pure and intuitive inputs attainable — a consumer’s eyes, fingers, and voice. An all-new App Retailer supplies customers with entry to greater than 1 million suitable apps throughout iOS and iPadOS, in addition to new experiences that benefit from the distinctive capabilities of Imaginative and prescient Professional. Pre-orders for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional start Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. PST.
“The period of spatial computing has arrived,” mentioned Tim Cook dinner, Apple’s CEO. “Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is probably the most superior client electronics gadget ever created. Its revolutionary and magical consumer interface will redefine how we join, create, and discover.”
A Revolutionary Working System and Person Interface
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is powered by visionOS, which is constructed on the muse of a long time of engineering innovation in macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. visionOS delivers highly effective spatial experiences, unlocking new alternatives at work and at residence. That includes a brand-new three-dimensional consumer interface and enter system managed solely by a consumer’s eyes, fingers, and voice, navigation feels magical. Intuitive gestures permit customers to work together with apps by merely taking a look at them, tapping their fingers to pick out, flicking their wrist to scroll, or utilizing a digital keyboard or dictation to kind. With Siri, customers can rapidly open or shut apps, play media, and extra.
Customers also can immerse themselves in Environments — dynamic, stunning landscapes like Haleakalā, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite nationwide parks, and even the floor of the moon — to assist them focus or scale back muddle in busy areas. With Environments, a consumer’s world can develop past the size of a bodily room. With a twist of the Digital Crown, customers can management how current or immersed they’re in an atmosphere.
Extraordinary Experiences
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional brings a brand new dimension to highly effective, private computing by altering the way in which customers work together with their apps. The three-dimensional interface frees apps from the boundaries of a show to allow them to seem aspect by aspect at any scale, offering the final word workspace and creating an infinite canvas for multitasking and collaborating.
Since visionOS leverages current developer frameworks, greater than 1 million acquainted apps throughout iOS and iPadOS can be found on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and mechanically work with the brand new enter system. Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally has an all-new App Retailer the place customers can discover apps that ship spatial computing experiences in contrast to another platform. Apps might be organized anyplace and scaled to the right measurement, all whereas permitting the consumer to remain current of their area.
- An infinite canvas for productiveness: With key productiveness and collaboration apps like Fantastical, Freeform, JigSpace, apps from Microsoft 365, and Slack, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is a perfect productiveness instrument for on a regular basis duties. Apps can seem aspect by aspect at any scale for unimaginable multitasking, and with help for Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad, customers can create the right workspace. With Mac Digital Show, customers may even carry the highly effective capabilities of their Mac into Imaginative and prescient Professional, creating an infinite, non-public, and transportable 4K show, very best for professional workflows.
- The final word leisure expertise: Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional options ultra-high-resolution shows that ship extra pixels than a 4K TV for every eye, enabling customers to observe films and TV reveals from Apple TV+, Disney+, Max, and different providers on a display that feels 100 ft extensive with help for HDR content material. Inside the Apple TV app, customers can entry greater than 150 3D titles with unimaginable depth wherever they’re. Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally introduces Apple Immersive Video, a outstanding new leisure format pioneered by Apple that places customers contained in the motion with 180-degree, three-dimensional 8K recordings captured with Spatial Audio. Customers also can get pleasure from new interactive experiences like Encounter Dinosaurs.
- New gaming experiences: Gamers can entry video games on the App Retailer, together with greater than 250 titles on Apple Arcade. Hit video games like NBA 2K24 Arcade Version and Sonic Dream Crew might be performed on a display as massive as they need with unimaginable audio and help for standard recreation controllers. New spatial video games, together with Recreation Room, What the Golf?, and Tremendous Fruit Ninja, benefit from the highly effective capabilities of Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional to rework the area round gamers, providing distinctive and interesting gameplay experiences.
Reminiscences Delivered to Life
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional allows customers to seize and relive their favourite reminiscences in solely new methods. Spatial images and movies transport customers again to a particular second in time, and Spatial Audio makes the expertise extremely immersive. When customers are on the go, they will seize spatial video on their iPhone 15 Professional or iPhone 15 Professional Max and relive them on Imaginative and prescient Professional. Customers also can view all their images and movies at a life-size scale with sensible coloration and spectacular element, together with Panoramas that broaden and wrap across the consumer, making them really feel like they’re proper the place it was taken.
FaceTime Turns into Spatial
FaceTime on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional takes benefit of the area across the consumer so that everybody on a name seems life-size, whereas Spatial Audio makes it sound like every particular person’s voice comes from the situation of their tile. If a consumer is sporting Imaginative and prescient Professional whereas on FaceTime, they seem as their Persona, whereas others becoming a member of from a Mac, iPad, or iPhone will seem in a tile.
Persona is an genuine spatial illustration of an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional consumer that permits others on a name to see their facial expressions and hand actions — all in actual time.1 Utilizing machine studying methods, a Persona might be created in simply minutes utilizing Imaginative and prescient Professional. Personas additionally work in third-party videoconferencing apps together with Zoom, Cisco Webex, and Microsoft Groups.
Breakthrough Design
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional builds on Apple innovation and expertise designing high-performance merchandise like Mac, iPhone, and wearables like Apple Watch, culminating in probably the most superior private electronics gadget ever. An astonishing quantity of know-how is packed into a lovely, compact design that makes use of probably the most superior supplies attainable to realize formidable targets for efficiency, mobility, and wearability.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is designed as a modular system so customers can personalize their match. A singular piece of three-dimensionally fashioned, laminated glass gently curves across the consumer’s face and flows into the customized aluminum alloy body. The Mild Seal is made from a delicate textile and is available in a spread of sizes and shapes, flexing to evolve to a consumer’s face for a exact match. Versatile straps guarantee audio stays near the consumer’s ears, whereas the included Solo Knit Band and Twin Loop Band permit customers to search out the optimum match for them. For these with imaginative and prescient correction wants, ZEISS Optical Inserts can be found with a prescription or as readers that magnetically connect to Imaginative and prescient Professional, permitting customers to take full benefit of the show’s unimaginable sharpness and readability.2
Unequalled Innovation
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is designed to ship phenomenal compute efficiency in a compact wearable kind issue. That includes a breakthrough ultra-high-resolution show system constructed on prime of Apple silicon, Imaginative and prescient Professional makes use of micro-OLED know-how to pack 23 million pixels into two shows, every the scale of a postage stamp, with extensive coloration and excessive dynamic vary. This technological breakthrough, mixed with customized lenses that allow unimaginable sharpness and readability, and superior Spatial Audio, delivers jaw-dropping experiences.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally contains a high-performance eye monitoring system that makes use of high-speed cameras and a hoop of LEDs that undertaking invisible gentle patterns onto the consumer’s eyes for responsive, intuitive enter. And to assist the consumer keep linked to the folks round them, Apple designed a groundbreaking new function known as EyeSight. When an individual approaches somebody sporting Imaginative and prescient Professional, the gadget seems to be clear — letting the consumer see them whereas additionally displaying the consumer’s eyes. When a consumer is immersed in an Setting or utilizing an app, EyeSight offers visible cues to others about what the consumer is targeted on.
The breakthrough show, superior audio experiences, high-performance eye monitoring system, and extra are powered by Apple silicon in a singular dual-chip design. The M2 chip delivers highly effective standalone efficiency, whereas the brand-new R1 chip processes enter from 12 cameras, 5 sensors, and 6 microphones to make sure that content material appears like it’s showing proper in entrance of the consumer’s eyes.
Privateness and Safety at Its Core
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional gives industry-leading privateness and safety. Optic ID is a brand new authentication system that analyzes a consumer’s iris to unlock Imaginative and prescient Professional, autofill passwords, and full funds with Apple Pay. The place a consumer seems to be stays non-public whereas navigating Imaginative and prescient Professional, and eye monitoring info is just not shared with Apple, third-party apps, or web sites. EyeSight additionally features a visible indicator that makes it clear to others when a consumer is capturing a spatial photograph or video.
Accessibility in visionOS
As with all Apple merchandise, highly effective accessibility options have been constructed proper into visionOS. Key accessibility options like VoiceOver, Zoom, Swap Management, Guided Entry, and extra have been reimagined for spatial computing. Customers can work together with Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional solely with their eyes, fingers, or voice, or any mixture that works finest for them. They will choose a most popular enter technique similar to their eyes, finger, or wrist utilizing Pointer Management, pause on a component of visionOS for a number of seconds to simulate a faucet utilizing Dwell Management, or just use voice instructions for actions throughout Imaginative and prescient Professional utilizing Voice Management. If enter from each eyes is just not an possibility, visionOS additionally permits eye monitoring with one dominant eye.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and the Setting
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is designed with the atmosphere in thoughts, with 100% recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets and 100% recycled tin soldering and gold plating in a number of printed circuit boards. The body and battery enclosure comprise 100% recycled aluminum, and the Mild Seal and Solo Knit Band are every made with over 70 % recycled yarn. Imaginative and prescient Professional meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, PVC, and beryllium. The packaging is 100% fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its aim of eliminating plastics in all packaging by 2025.
At this time, Apple is carbon impartial for its international company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout the complete manufacturing provide chain and life cycle of each product.
Pricing and Availability
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will likely be out there beginning at $3,499 (U.S.) with 256GB of storage. Pre-orders for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will start on Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. PST, with availability starting Friday, February 2.
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will likely be out there in any respect U.S. Apple Retailer places and the U.S. Apple Retailer on-line.
- ZEISS Optical Inserts — Readers will likely be out there for $99 (U.S.), and ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription will likely be out there for $149 (U.S.).
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional comes with a Solo Knit Band and Twin Loop Band — giving customers two choices for the match that works finest for them. Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally features a Mild Seal, two Mild Seal Cushions, an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Cowl for the entrance of the gadget, Sprucing Fabric, Battery, USB-C Cost Cable, and USB-C Energy Adapter.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At this time, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Persona is on the market in beta.
- A legitimate prescription is required. Not all prescriptions are supported. Imaginative and prescient correction equipment are bought individually. ZEISS Optical Inserts are solely out there to buy on-line.
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Apple
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