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What’s so ‘pro’ about the Apple Vision Pro headset?

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With the Apple Vision Pro, virtual reality, and augmented reality headset, Apple is entering a new product category. The new gadget is not intended for the majority of people because it costs $3,500. It won’t be accessible until the beginning of 2024.

The Vision Pro wraps around your head entirely, covering your eyes with what appears to be a pair of goggles, similar to other VR headsets. A digital crown, resembling the one on the Apple Watch, is located on the top right side of the headset and allows you to adjust how much of the outside world enters your VR experience.

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This has the effect of lowering the lights in your immediate surroundings. You may change from augmented reality to virtual reality thanks to the crown.

The most prominent feature of the Vision Pro is visible when it is in augmented reality mode: A live feed of your eyes within the headset is shown on the screen that faces the outside. It is intended that this feature, termed EyeSight, will make it seem less strange to other people.

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Actually, the function of the headset depends heavily on your eyes. Along with your voice, hand movements, and eye tracking, the Vision Pro is controlled by you.

Additionally, it uses your eyes as a form of authentication thanks to Apple’s new Optic ID feature, which scans your irises to unlock the Vision Pro. Optic ID is similar to Face ID but for the eyes. Apple essentially wants you to do everything with the Vision Pro.

Your work can be dispersed across a number of sizable digital monitors that are hidden from view from everyone else in the space. On a virtual screen that is 100 feet wide, you may also watch movies, play games, and FaceTime with pals. Apple Immersive Video, which combines a 180-degree view of material with spatial audio, will be supported by the headset.

A new operating system dubbed visionOS powers the headgear and all of its applications. Additionally, it will have its own version of the App Store, which Apple undoubtedly expects to be fully loaded upon release. When the Vision Pro goes on sale, Apple claims that “hundreds of thousands” of iPhone and iPad apps will be compatible with it.

A new operating system dubbed visionOS powers the headgear and all of its applications. Additionally, it will have its own version of the App Store, which Apple undoubtedly expects to be fully loaded upon release. When the Vision Pro goes on sale, Apple claims that “hundreds of thousands” of iPhone and iPad apps will be compatible with it.

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Those who saw a preview of the Vision Pro at WWDC were quick to praise it as an excellent engineering achievement, but several questioned whether using an AR/VR headset for FaceTime calls is the best option.

The device’s technology is better than that of headsets from Meta, Magic Leap, and Sony, according to Brian X. Chen, a technology columnist for the New York Times. However, Chen notes that he found the new FaceTime Persona function to be uncomfortable.

Facebook to Soon Roll Out a New Voice Assistant for its AR/VR Products Lineup

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First Siri and then Alexa, followed by a few other voice assistants, including Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby, have made their own space among people. Now in the same course, Facebook is also about to launch its own AI-based digital voice assistant. The company, too, has confirmed the news that it will be soon introducing a new voice assistant for its AR and VR lineup.

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“We are working to develop voice and AI assistant technologies that may work across our family of AR/VR products including Portal, Oculus and future products.” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement.

According to a former Facebook employee, the company has been working on the voice assistant for its augmented reality and virtual reality division for a year now. The team of developers, for this new product, is led by Ira Snyder, director of AR/VR and Facebook Assistant, and the team is based out of Redmond, Washington.

It is expected that the voice assistant is especially being built for the AR, VR products including the Oculus headsets as well as the company’s Portal video chat device.

This is not the first time that the company is trying its hands in the field of voice assistant production. But, in 2015, Facebook had launched a voice assistant for its messenger named as ‘M’. The product could not sustain for long as despite offering the users smart suggestions, it required human help to run.

Even though the company has been working on its voice assistant for a year, it is still way behind the digital voice assistants by the other tech giants. But according to the company, its voice assistant will focus more on the products that can handle hands-free interactions. This way the genre of Facebook’s voice assistants may not be similar to Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri.