June 10, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional arrives in new nations and areas starting June 28
Prospects in China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore can pre-order Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional on June 13, and clients in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.Okay. can pre-order on June 28
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple in the present day introduced Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional will increase to new nations and areas, with pre-orders for China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore starting this Thursday, June 13, at 6 p.m. PT and availability starting Friday, June 28. Prospects in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK can pre-order Imaginative and prescient Professional starting Friday, June 28, at 5 a.m. PT, with availability starting Friday, July 12. Imaginative and prescient Professional seamlessly blends digital content material with the bodily world to ship highly effective spatial experiences that rework the best way folks work, collaborate, join, relive reminiscences, take pleasure in leisure, and far more.
“The passion for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional has been extraordinary, and we’re thrilled to introduce the magic of spatial computing to extra clients all over the world,” stated Tim Prepare dinner, Apple’s CEO. “We are able to’t anticipate extra folks to see the unimaginable turn out to be potential, whether or not working and collaborating with an infinite canvas for apps, reliving treasured reminiscences in three dimensions, watching TV exhibits and flicks in a one-of-a-kind private cinema, or having fun with brand-new spatial experiences that defy creativeness.”
A Revolutionary Spatial Pc
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is powered by visionOS, a revolutionary working system, intuitive spatial person interface, and magical enter system that customers navigate with their eyes, palms, and voice. visionOS is constructed upon many years of engineering and design innovation in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and works seamlessly with Apple’s ecosystem of {hardware}, software program, and providers to ship a pleasant expertise throughout customers’ favourite Apple gadgets.
Customers work together with apps by merely them and tapping their fingers collectively. They’ll additionally communicate to dictate textual content, use the digital keyboard to kind, and ask Siri to open and shut apps, play media, reply questions, and extra. The infinite canvas frees apps from the boundaries of a bodily show, to allow them to seem facet by facet at any scale, offering customers with the last word workspace for productiveness, collaboration, and leisure. Environments — gorgeous, dynamic landscapes like Haleakalā, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, and even the moon — are designed to assist customers focus, scale back visible litter, and revel in immersive experiences.
With visionOS 2, accessible as a free software program replace this fall, all Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers will achieve entry to much more options that improve how they interact with spatial computing, together with a robust method to rework images into 3D reminiscences; intuitive hand gestures to simply entry the Dwelling View and necessary data at a look; new capabilities for Mac Digital Show, Journey Mode, and Visitor Consumer; enhancements to Mindfulness, Safari, and the Apple TV app; and far more.
A Strong Catalog of Apps, Video games, and Experiences
The App Retailer now options greater than 2,000 apps designed for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional; greater than 1.5 million suitable iOS and iPadOS apps; and much more apps on Mac utilizing Mac Digital Show that work seamlessly alongside each other.1 The distinctive capabilities of Imaginative and prescient Professional, paired with apps constructed by Apple’s worldwide developer neighborhood, make it a remarkably versatile gadget for customers.
An Monumental, Non-public, and Moveable Workspace
Main enterprise and productiveness apps — together with Field, Craft, Fantastical, MindNode, Slack, Issues 3, Webex, Zoom, and apps from Microsoft 365 — assist customers collaborate with colleagues and attain on a regular basis duties. Customers also can supercharge their productiveness with utility apps similar to AirLauncher, GlanceBar, Splitscreen, Screens 5, and Widgetsmith — and by pairing Bluetooth equipment, similar to Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and with visionOS 2 later this 12 months, Magic Mouse.
An Unmatched Private Cinema
Prime streaming providers can be found on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, together with Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ with Hulu, Max, Peacock, Paramount+ with Showtime, Pluto TV, and Tubi.2 The Apple TV app options all Apple Originals from Apple TV+, and greater than 250 3D films, with choose titles accessible to Apple TV+ subscribers at no further price.3 Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can take pleasure in extra streaming and on-line video providers by way of apps like IMAX, Juno, Supercut, and Tv, or by way of Safari. Apps that help SharePlay and spatial Persona enable a number of customers to look at collectively, as in the event that they’re in the identical bodily house.4
A Entrance-Row Seat and Private Scoreboard for Sports activities
With apps from main sports activities leagues and types — together with the NBA, MLS, MLB, NHL, PGA TOUR, The Masters, UFC, World Surf League, and Pink Bull TV — Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers have the chance to look at video games and observe athletes like by no means earlier than. Options like multiview, real-time participant and recreation stats, reside object mapping, and extra convey the advantages of a bodily scoreboard or second display proper into view. Followers also can observe reside native, nationwide, and worldwide sports activities with apps from high cable providers and sports activities broadcasters.
An Unbelievable Gaming System
Customers can discover hundreds of enjoyable video games, together with greater than 250 titles with Apple Arcade. New spatial video games and content material updates launch on Apple Arcade usually, with latest releases similar to Alto’s Odyssey — The Misplaced Metropolis, Crossy Street Fortress, and The place Playing cards Fall, alongside spatial video games on the App Retailer, such because the 2024 Apple Design Award-winning Blackbox, Loóna, and DapTap. In style immersive video games, like Job Simulator, shine on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, permitting gamers to easily use their eyes and palms to simulate varied professions, like a gourmand chef or retailer clerk. Gamers also can entry iPad and iPhone video games, PC and console video games utilizing apps like Steam Hyperlink, and much more video games on Mac — that are all suitable with PlayStation DualSense and Xbox Wi-fi controllers.
An Infinite Canvas for Creativity
New design apps like AirDraw and Da Vinci Eye have been constructed to leverage the distinctive capabilities of spatial computing, like the power for customers to sketch, draw, and paint with simply their eyes and palms. The 2024 Apple Design Award-winning app djay empowers artists to make music out of skinny air, whereas Lowe’s Type Studio permits customers to design their dream kitchen.
Groundbreaking Storytelling Experiences
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional introduces Apple Immersive Video, a storytelling format that leverages 3D 8K video with a 180-degree area of view and Spatial Audio to move viewers to the middle of the motion. The Apple TV app is house to a rising slate of Apple Immersive movies and collection, whereas the App Retailer options distinctive immersive and interactive experiences, together with Encounter Dinosaurs, GUCCI’s movie Who Is Sabato De Sarno? A Gucci Story, and the not too long ago launched What If…? An Immersive Story from Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive.
This month, builders all over the world are launching new apps and video games for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, together with DingTalk, Douyin VR Stay, Migu Video, Taobao, Tencent Video, and Weibo in China; apps from Yahoo! JAPAN, LIFULL HOME’S, U-NEXT, and Nikkei in Japan; and Singtel CAST, StarHub TV+, and mewatch in Singapore — all accessible from day one. Extra apps will launch on Imaginative and prescient Professional subsequent month, together with MUBI and Soul Spire in the UK; Canal+, Foxar, OQEE, and SeLoger in France; BILD, OTTO, and ZDF in Germany; Classix and Sportsnet in Canada; and Area in Australia. Moreover, world productiveness instruments like apps from Microsoft 365, leisure providers like Disney+, and extra shall be accessible in lots of of those nations and areas at launch.
Companies throughout industries are embracing spatial computing, with greater than half of the Fortune 100 corporations having bought Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional to develop progressive options for his or her organizations and clients, together with apps to collaborate on 3D designs, ship specialised worker coaching, information distant fieldwork, and far more. Imaginative and prescient Professional can be unlocking new alternatives for healthcare professionals and medical establishments in areas similar to medical schooling, surgical planning, medical imaging, and behavioral well being.
Unequalled {Hardware} Design and Innovation
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is designed to ship phenomenal compute efficiency in a compact, wearable type issue. The ultra-high-resolution show system makes use of micro-OLED know-how to pack 23 million pixels into two shows, every the scale of a postage stamp, delivering extra pixels than a 4K TV to every eye. The superior Spatial Audio system makes use of two individually amplified drivers to ship Customized Spatial Audio, creating the sensation that sounds are coming from the house across the person. Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally includes a high-performance eye monitoring system for responsive, intuitive enter, and EyeSight helps customers keep related to the folks round them. Imaginative and prescient Professional is powered by Apple silicon in a novel dual-chip design. M2 delivers highly effective standalone efficiency, whereas the first-of-its-kind R1 chip processes enter from 12 cameras, 5 sensors, and 6 microphones to make sure that content material feels prefer it’s showing proper in entrance of the person’s eyes.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Embodies Apple’s Values
As with all Apple merchandise, Apple’s values are embedded into Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional:
- Highly effective accessibility options are constructed into visionOS. VoiceOver, Zoom, Coloration Filters, Change Management, Guided Entry, and extra have been reimagined for spatial computing. Customers can choose a most well-liked enter methodology with Pointer Management and Dwell Management, and allow eye monitoring with one dominant eye. Later this 12 months, visionOS will help systemwide Stay Captions,5 and extra Made for iPhone listening to gadgets and cochlear listening to processors.
- Schooling apps supply all-new methods to study. New apps like Artwork Universe, Stunning Issues, Full HeartX, JigSpace, LookUp Dictionary, Museas, Pocket Rocket, and Sky Information are designed to assist customers achieve new views about artwork, historical past, science, house, and extra with immersive scenes and volumetric objects.
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional affords industry-leading privateness and safety. Optic ID analyzes a person’s iris to unlock Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, autofill passwords, and full funds with Apple Pay. The place a person seems to be whereas navigating Imaginative and prescient Professional stays personal, and eye monitoring data isn’t shared with Apple, third-party apps, or web sites.
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and the Atmosphere
Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is designed with one hundred pc recycled uncommon earth components in all magnets, and one hundred pc recycled tin soldering and gold plating in a number of printed circuit boards. Imaginative and prescient Professional meets Apple’s excessive requirements for power effectivity, and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, PVC, and beryllium. The packaging is one hundred pc fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its purpose of eliminating plastics in all packaging by 2025. Right this moment, Apple is carbon impartial for its world company operations, and by 2030, plans to be carbon impartial throughout all the manufacturing provide chain and life cycle of each product.
Pricing and Availability
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional shall be accessible in any respect Apple Retailer areas in China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.Okay., and the U.S., and the Apple Retailer on-line, beginning at $3,499 (U.S.), with 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage capacities.
- Prospects in China mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore will be capable of pre-order Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional starting Thursday, June 13, at 6 p.m. PT, with availability starting Friday, June 28.
- Prospects in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.Okay. will be capable of pre-order Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional starting Friday, June 28, at 5 a.m. PT, with availability starting Friday, July 12.
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional comes with visionOS 1.2, with help for languages in these nations and areas. visionOS 2 shall be accessible to all Imaginative and prescient Professional customers as a free software program replace this fall.
- Prospects should purchase Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional by visiting the Apple Retailer on-line, Apple Retailer app, or an Apple Retailer location with personalised help from Apple Specialists. Prospects will be capable of ebook a 30-minute demo of Imaginative and prescient Professional on-line. Extra details about demos shall be shared when pre-orders open.
- When clients order Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, they are going to full a face scan utilizing an iPhone or iPad with Face ID that has the most recent model of the Apple Retailer app. This scan helps customers discover the optimum Gentle Seal and head band sizes to offer a exact match.
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional comes with a Solo Knit Band, a Twin Loop Band, a customized Gentle Seal with two Gentle Seal Cushions, an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Cowl, Sharpening Fabric, Battery, USB-C Cost Cable, and USB-C Energy Adapter.
- For customers who require imaginative and prescient correction, Apple partnered with ZEISS to develop ZEISS Optical Inserts that magnetically connect to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, permitting customers to take full benefit of the show’s unimaginable sharpness and readability.6 ZEISS Optical Inserts — Readers shall be accessible for $99 (U.S.), and ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription shall be accessible for $149 (U.S.).
- Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Journey Case shall be accessible for $199 (U.S.).
- AppleCare+ for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional shall be accessible for $499 (U.S.).
- For extra data on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, go to apple.com/apple-vision-pro.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- App availability varies by nation area.
- Apple TV+ is out there to each Canal+ subscriber at no further price. Max Final Advert-Free plan required for 4K viewing and help for Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos. A Disney+ subscription is required. Hulu content material accessible for eligible Disney Bundle subscribers.
- 3D film availability varies by nation or area.
- Persona is out there in beta.
- Obtainable in U.S. English.
- A sound prescription is required. Not all prescriptions are supported. Imaginative and prescient correction equipment are offered individually. ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription are solely accessible to buy on-line.
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