VisionOS is the name of Apple’s newest operating system — the OS that powers the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s soon-to-launch augmented reality headset.
Unveiled at its annual WWDC conference, Apple describes VisionOS as “the first OS designed for the ground up for spatial computing” — spatial computing being Apple’s phrase of choice for augmented and virtual reality experiences. At the architecture level, VisionOS shares core blocks in common with MacOS and iOS, but adds a “real-time subsystem” for processing interactive visuals on the Apple Vision Pro.
At launch, VisionOS features apps — including Unity apps, which run natively on the Vision Pro — from Adobe (specifically Lightroom), Microsoft (Teams and Office), Cisco (Webex) Zoom and more. There’s medical software for looking at renders of anatomy, and an engineering app for visualizing things physics phenomena, like airflow, on top of real-world objects.
You’ll get those apps and more from a brand-new app store, which is launching simultaneously with the Vision Pro.
VisionOS is Apple’s latest operating system by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
