Apple Vision Pro: so far so good

Sales of the vision Pro officially began on

February 2 in the United States at a starting price of $3499. Apple’s first mixed reality headset could represent a new milestone for the Cupertino giant, transitioning from mobile computing to spatial computing. Here are the potential implications for everyday life.

What is Apple Vision Pro, how does it work, and what can be done with the augmented reality headset?

Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first augmented reality headset - or rather mixed-reality - unveiled in June 2023 and launched in the US market on February 2, 2024. It introduces the concept that Apple calls spatial computing, whereby the real world and the virtual world are “merged” into a single “hybrid” environment. Through a scan of the surrounding environment, faithfully reproduced on the screens inside the headset “mask” itself, the user can look “through” the headset by applying elements of the virtual world to the reality of the surrounding world, opening up some very interesting use cases.

The two underlying concepts of Vision Pro: mixed reality and spatial computing Before delving into its potential use cases, let’s first understand what Apple Vision Pro is and what technologies enable its operation. As mentioned earlier, Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset. But what do we mean by “mixed reality”? As the name suggests, this technology refers to a mix of the digital world and the virtual world, which allows the visualization of virtual and physical environments and objects that can interact with each other, as if they were part of a single environment, which we could define as hybrid.