Along with thesecond beta of iOS 17 , Apple this week released the very first genus Beta visionOS , give developers who were n’t favourable enough to try Vision Pro at WWDC their first glance of the company ’s assorted - realism imagination of the future . ( Without wishing to repeat the F word too often , Apple describes the software package as its “ first spatial operating organization . ” ) You do n’t require an actualVision Pro headsetto explore the package , which is golden since they wo n’t go on sale until sometime next twelvemonth . You only need the recent Xcode genus Beta .
It ’s still early Day , but a few interesting titbits have emerged already . For example , there are several Environments present in the genus Beta , which can be used to shut out the extraneous world by ferment the headset ’s Digital Crown . “ environment get you transmute the space around you , so apps can gallop beyond the dimensions of your way , ” Apple says on itswebsite . “ opt from a selection of beautiful landscape , or as if by magic replace your ceiling with a clear , open sky . ”
There are 13 environment so far , ranging from the beach to the moon and let in several generic locations : the beach , moonshine , sky , whitened backbone , and winter , fall , summer , and spring light . to boot , there are several real - cosmos view :
As note byMacrumors , there ’s also a Visual Search feature that reserve the wearer to interact with point and textbook in the world , and translate text between more than a dozen language . That ’s more of a actual - world AR feature of speech than Apple demoed , so it ’s potential Vision Pro has more functionality by the time it come in customers ’ hands next yr .
Apple has alsooutlineda few app categories that do n’t fit on visionOS , including movement - based apps that watch over location changes or offer turn - by - spell directions or navigation , and picture taking apps , despite Vision Pro having a XII cameras on board .
As bewitching as it is , the beta ( prescribed name visionOS 1.0 Developer Beta ) is n’t intended for the manipulation of member of the public . As the name suggest , it ’s for app developers to work on . Devs can download the software development outfit , and understand about some of visionOS ’s feature , onApple ’s developer portal . It ’s doubtful Apple has a public beta before visionOS 2.0 arrive .
