Apple Vision Pro is billed as the first “spatial computer”, not a mere AR/VR headset

It’s here. After years and years of rumors and speculation, today Apple has made the Vision Pro official. It’s the company’s first VR/AR headset, but of course, this being Apple, it’s not calling it that – instead, it’s billed as the first ever “spatial computer”. It’s running an entirely new operating system too, dubbed visionOS.

The headset’s “display system” packs 23 million pixels (“more than a 4K TV for each eye”) across two micro OLED screens, “each the size of a postage stamp”, Apple boasts, in case anyone remembers what that is. There are custom catadioptric lenses in there…