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.
Coming into view.
Follow the Apple Vision Pro platform from its reveal to what’s happening now.
2023
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.
2024
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.
Vision Pro enters the workplace.
Apple highlights real-world Vision Pro work across aircraft maintenance, product design, immersive training, medical imaging, retail planning, and collaboration.
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.
ARKit 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.
The international rollout begins.
Vision Pro reaches China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, followed by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
visionOS 2 makes spatial computing faster and more personal.
visionOS 2 adds spatial-photo conversion, new hand gestures, and upgrades to Travel Mode, Guest User, and everyday apps.
Submerged brings scripted storytelling to Apple Immersive.
Edward Berger’s World War II thriller becomes the first scripted film captured in Apple Immersive Video, putting viewers inside a full-scale submarine set.
Vision 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.
Mac Virtual Display expands into a wraparound workspace.
visionOS 2.2 adds Wide and Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display, including a curved 32:9 workspace that surrounds the viewer.
Apple Vision Pro becomes available in Taiwan.
Taiwan becomes the thirteenth country or region with official Vision Pro availability, completing another year of international expansion.
2025
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.
Metallica takes the stage in Apple Immersive.
A three-song M72 World Tour concert captured with 14 Apple Immersive Video cameras brings viewers onstage, backstage, and into the Snake Pit.
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.
visionOS 26 expands how apps live in a room.
Spatial widgets, richer Personas, shared experiences, wider video support, and new accessories make Vision Pro feel more at home in a room.
Live 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.
Apple Vision Pro upgrades to M5.
The updated model improves performance, display rendering, battery life, and comfort with the new Dual Knit Band while shipping with visionOS 26.
3,000+native visionOS apps
The native visionOS catalog reaches a new threshold.
Apple reports that the native visionOS catalog has grown past 3,000 apps, alongside more than one million compatible apps available on Vision Pro.
2026
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.
NVIDIA 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.
Apple 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.
Real Madrid pushes Apple Immersive production past 30 cameras.
The 20-minute film The Weight of Greatness takes viewers inside a Champions League match day after a five-day production using more than 30 Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive cameras.
visionOS 27 looks ahead to new intelligence and spatial tools.
Siri AI, Visual Intelligence, curved windows, Spatial Preview, panorama Environments, and new developer tools push the platform forward.
RealityKit adds native Gaussian splat support.
Developers gain APIs for rendering photorealistic Gaussian splats efficiently inside visionOS apps and immersive experiences.
ARKit 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.
Friday Night Baseball adds live games in Apple Immersive.
Apple and MLB announce four live 8K, 180-degree broadcasts for Vision Pro, beginning August 28 with Red Sox at Yankees and continuing weekly through September 18.
Now
Now · Interview
Inside visionOS 27 with Apple.
Justin Ryan talks with Apple about the new Siri, visionOS 27, and the rumor that Vision Pro had been put on ice.
Watch the interview