All About Apple’s New $3,499 AR Headset

Author: Subharthi Bayen

Date: June 6, 2023

Time: 1 pm

Apple has announced an augmented reality headset called Apple Vision Pro that “seamlessly” blends the real and digital world.

It features a separate battery pack and is controlled with eyes, hands, and voice.

It will start at $3,499 and launch early next year, starting in the US and later in more countries.

The device is controller-free, and you browse rows of app icons in an operating system called visionOS by looking at them.

The headset has a glass front and an aluminum frame, containing five sensors, 12 cameras, a 4K display for each eye, and a computer

Zeiss has created custom optical inserts that magnetically attach to the lenses for people who wear glasses.

Apple promises that the display can deliver 4K video. The system uses an M2, but it also includes a new chip called the R1