Apple Vision Pro and visionOS are introduced.
Apple reveals its first spatial computer, powered by M2 and the new R1 chip, alongside visionOS and an eye-, hand-, and voice-driven interface.
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2023
Apple introduces a new platform and gives developers the tools to begin building for it.
The visionOS SDK opens the platform to developers.
Apple releases the visionOS software development kit, Reality Composer Pro, simulator support, and developer labs so teams can begin creating spatial apps.
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Vision Pro reaches customers, expands internationally, and gains its first major operating-system update and a commercial immersive-production workflow.
Apple Vision Pro with M2 arrives in the United States.
The first Vision Pro goes on sale with more than 600 spatial apps and games built for visionOS, alongside more than one million compatible iPhone and iPad apps.
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Blackmagic announces an end-to-end Apple Immersive Video workflow.
URSA Cine Immersive and DaVinci Resolve support give filmmakers a commercial path to capture, edit, and deliver 8K stereoscopic Apple Immersive Video.
Blackmagic DesignARKit learns to recognize real-world objects in visionOS.
Apple introduces object tracking for visionOS, giving developers a way to recognize physical items from trained 3D references and attach digital content to them.
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The international rollout begins.
Vision Pro reaches China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, followed by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
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visionOS 2 makes spatial computing faster and more personal.
The first major update adds spatial-photo conversion, new hand gestures, and improvements to Travel Mode and Guest User, with an expanded Mac Virtual Display arriving in visionOS 2.2.
Apple NewsroomVision Pro reaches South Korea and the UAE.
The platform's retail footprint grows again, bringing hands-on demos, local App Store access, and official availability to two more markets.
Apple NewsroomApple Vision Pro becomes available in Taiwan.
Taiwan becomes the thirteenth country or region with official Vision Pro availability, completing another year of international expansion.
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Dedicated retail spaces appear, Apple Intelligence arrives, visionOS takes another major step, and the second-generation Vision Pro moves to M5.
New Apple Stores begin opening with dedicated Vision Pro rooms.
Apple Miami Worldcenter opens with a separate room for Vision Pro demos and purchases, following the dedicated experience space in the redesigned Tysons Corner store.
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visionOS 2.4 brings Apple Intelligence and Spatial Gallery.
Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji come to Vision Pro alongside Spatial Gallery, the Vision Pro app for iPhone, and easier Guest User sharing.
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visionOS 26 expands how apps live in a room.
Apple previews spatial widgets, more expressive Personas, spatial scenes, shared experiences, wider camera-format support, and PlayStation VR2 Sense controller support.
Apple NewsroomLive NBA games in Apple Immersive are announced.
Apple and Spectrum reveal a season of live Lakers games captured with Blackmagic's URSA Cine Immersive Live camera for a courtside-scale viewing experience.
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Apple Vision Pro moves to M5.
The updated model improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort with the new Dual Knit Band while shipping with visionOS 26.
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Live immersive sports, native RTX streaming, accessibility advances, and the next visionOS preview widen what the platform can do.
The first Spectrum Front Row game streams live.
Bucks at Lakers tips off a six-game Apple Immersive schedule, with live viewing in the Lakers' regional territory and replays reaching wider U.S. and international audiences.
Apple NewsroomNVIDIA CloudXR becomes natively integrated with visionOS.
CloudXR 6.0 brings secure, foveated streaming of RTX-powered simulators and professional 3D applications from computers and the cloud to Vision Pro.
NVIDIAApple previews new accessibility capabilities.
Apple announces on-device captions for uncaptioned video and a Vision Pro feature designed to let users control compatible power wheelchairs with their eyes.
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visionOS 27 looks ahead to new intelligence and spatial tools.
Apple previews Siri AI and Visual Intelligence on Vision Pro, curved windows, spatial previewing of Mac-based 3D models, panorama Environments, and a new generation of developer tools.
Apple visionOS previewApple expands the tools for building spatial worlds.
RealityKit gains native Gaussian splat APIs while Reality Composer Pro 3 adds visual scripting, generative asset tools, live previewing on Vision Pro, and extensible spatial-authoring workflows.
Gaussian splats on visionOS Reality Composer Pro 3ARKit advances from static anchors to objects in motion.
visionOS 27 expands object tracking to moving and handheld items, improves precision and latency, and opens spatial-accessory development to more third-party hardware.
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