Within the run-up to WWDC subsequent week, Apple has as soon as once more leaked a reference to its xrOS software program platform of the Actuality Professional headset. As noticed by Steve Troughton-Smith, the newest xrOS reference from Apple has popped up in App Retailer Join for builders…
Apple Retailer Join is the platform by means of which builders can handle and distribute their apps for platforms together with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. In a publish on Mastodon, Troughton-Smith confirmed off how he tried to trick App Retailer Join and submit an app for xrOS.
App Retailer Join then threw up an error message that reads: “Incorrect Platform. You included the xros arm64 executable in your ios bundle. Solely ios executables will be included.”
What this implies, in accordance with Troughton-Smith, is that Apple has already up to date inner instruments to identify xrOS binaries. “It suggests App Retailer Join is utilizing AppleInternal variations of the linker tooling which have already got been up to date to acknowledge xrOS binaries,” he defined.
Troughton-Smith additionally identified that you could’t simply submit a binary with any random working system title. As an alternative, builders select a quantity primarily based on Apple’s platforms and App Retailer Join comes up with the title of that working system itself.
As soon as once more, this additionally reveals that Apple at one level thought-about calling the software program platform for its headset “realityOS” fairly than xrOS.
Bloomberg has reported that Apple plans to market xrOS as which means “prolonged actuality.” The corporate has registered varied wordmarks and logos for xrOS all over the world utilizing shell corporations. As 9to5Mac first reported again in March, Apple has additionally brazenly (and sometimes) referenced xrOS and realityOS in its open supply code.
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