September 16, 2024
UPDATE
visionOS 2 for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is offered at present
visionOS 2 is offered at present, bringing new spatial computing experiences to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers all over the world. Current photographs can now be became spatial photographs with exceptional depth and dimension, intuitive new hand gestures make navigating Imaginative and prescient Professional even quicker and simpler, and highly effective enhancements to key visionOS apps and experiences take spatial computing to the following stage.
Create, Relive, and Share Spatial Recollections
With visionOS 2, Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers can revisit previous recollections by remodeling 2D pictures from their library within the Images app into spatial photographs with natural-looking depth and dimension. With only a faucet, visionOS 2 leverages superior machine studying algorithms to deliver new life to 2D photographs, enabling customers to revisit and reconnect with cherished recollections in methods by no means earlier than attainable.
SharePlay within the Images app makes it simple for customers to share content material of their library, together with gorgeous spatial photographs and movies shot on the brand new iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Professional, with their family and friends. With SharePlay, customers can join with others as their spatial Persona and revel in panoramas at life-size scale, scroll by means of favourite shared albums, and extra whereas feeling as if everyone seems to be bodily current collectively in the identical room. The Images app in visionOS 2 has been redesigned to assist customers preserve their library organized, and makes it simple to rapidly discover spatial photographs, movies, and extra. Customers also can trim movies of their picture library and do it at any scale that works greatest for their workflows.
Later this fall, Canon will introduce a brand-new spatial lens for its well-liked EOS R7 digital digicam that can be capable to seize attractive spatial video. Skilled customers will be capable to edit their spatial movies with Remaining Reduce Professional for Mac, and add them to Vimeo for others to expertise on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Navigate visionOS with New Hand Gestures
Navigating Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is even quicker and simpler with visionOS 2. Constructing off the revolutionary spatial interface of Imaginative and prescient Professional, visionOS 2 introduces new gestures that make accessing Residence View and different options much more handy. Now when customers increase their hand in entrance of them and faucet their fingers, they’ll rapidly get to the Residence View, or they’ll flip their hand to see the time, verify the battery stage, regulate the amount, and even entry Management Heart.
Productiveness on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Reaches New Heights
Highly effective productiveness options in visionOS 2 assist customers additional customise their Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional expertise to raised match their wants and get much more executed.
Customers now have the power to make use of their mouse when navigating Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional — nice for once they’re drafting a doc and wish the precision of a cursor. When a consumer is in an Setting, Imaginative and prescient Professional will intelligently detect and reveal the consumer’s bodily Magic Keyboard. And with the power to customise their Residence View, customers can organize apps wherever they like and rapidly entry those they use most.
Later this yr, Mac Digital Show will characteristic an expandable, ultra-wide display screen that wraps across the consumer — creating the equal of getting two 4K shows sitting facet by facet.
Common Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Experiences Get All-New Capabilities
With visionOS 2, key apps and options that customers love and depend on daily get even higher:
- Journey Mode expands to incorporate trains, so customers can immerse themselves in a stupendous Setting and work privately in a number of apps, or atone for the newest motion pictures and exhibits on a large display screen, whether or not they’re on a flight or on their commute.
- If a consumer’s member of the family or colleague makes use of Visitor Person often, visionOS can now save the latest visitor’s eye and hand knowledge for 30 days — making it quicker and simpler for them to get again into Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- In Safari, customers can watch their favourite movies from well-liked websites like Netflix and YouTube on an enormous display screen in any Setting — creating a surprising cinematic viewing expertise with a stupendous glow and reflection from the display screen. The superb panoramic picture expertise on Imaginative and prescient Professional additionally involves Safari, permitting customers to faucet on a web site’s panoramas and immerse themselves because the picture wraps round them.
- Bora Bora joins the record of gorgeous Environments, enabling customers to flee to a tropical paradise the place they’ll take pleasure in serene environment and create the proper area to focus.
- Persona consists of extra correct pores and skin tones, vibrant clothes colours, and extra fluid and pure hand actions. Customers even have the choice so as to add a wide range of backgrounds throughout their FaceTime or third-party video calls.
- Later this yr, the Apple TV app will help Multiview, which permits sports activities followers to look at as much as 5 video games directly to allow them to preserve monitor of all their favourite sports activities and groups.
- The Mindfulness app helps customers obtain calm and focus with a brand new characteristic referred to as Observe Your Respiration that presents dynamic visible animations and sounds that reply to the consumer’s respiratory patterns.
- Together with different highly effective new accessibility options, Dwell Captions present customers with actual‑time transcriptions of speech, audio, and video content material.
- Look to Dictate now works in Messages, so responding turns into quicker and simpler than ever.
- Imaginative and prescient Professional can now be enabled as an AirPlay receiver, so customers can view content material from a close-by iPhone, iPad, or Mac on their Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Availability
visionOS 2 is offered at present as a free software program replace for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. For extra info, go to apple.com/visionos/visionos-2. Some options will not be obtainable in all areas or languages.
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Apple
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