Apple Reality Pro: Mixed-reality headset unveiled

Apple has unveiled a much-anticipated augmented world headset, Apple Reality Pro, successful its archetypal large hardware motorboat for astir a decade.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said the caller headset "seamlessly blends the existent satellite and the virtual world".

The tech steadfast besides announced its latest iPhone operating system, arsenic good arsenic updates to MacBook Air.

The $3,000 (£2,400) headset volition connection some virtual world (VR) and augmented world (AR) experiences.

The announcement was made astatine a developer's league astatine Apple Park, the company's headquarters, successful Cupertino, California, which is besides streamed unrecorded connected its website and YouTube channel.

Apple Reality Pro presents a ocular alteration from different akin headsets connected the marketplace - and is much reminiscent of a brace of skis goggles than an augmented-reality headset.

Apple utilized the operation "augmented reality" to picture what the caller instrumentality does.

Augmented reality, besides known arsenic mixed reality, superimposes virtual objects successful the satellite astir america - enabling america to premix world with virtual world by looking done a screen.

Mr Cook said the headset allows users to "see, perceive and interact with integer contented conscionable similar it's successful your carnal space".

It is controlled by utilizing a operation of your hands, eyes and dependable - specified arsenic tapping your fingers unneurotic to select, and flicking them to scroll.

The announcement comes a week aft Meta and Lenovo announced caller iterations of their pre-existing virtual-reality headsets, that bash not superimpose objects onto a presumption of the existent world.

Meta has besides invested heavy successful mixed-reality - but close present the assemblage is struggling.

Apple's past large hardware announcement was for the Apple Watch instrumentality successful 2015.

Aside from the Reality Pro announcement, Apple besides unveiled iOS17, the latest mentation of its iPhone operating system.

Updates see "contact posters" - a representation oregon representation of yourself that volition look connected a person's telephone erstwhile you telephone them - and "live voicemail" - which provides a real-time transcription of an answerphone connection being near to you.

This transcription volition besides use to audio messages near utilizing Apple Messages.

And Apple has introduced a strategy called Check-In - which volition automatically archer a person oregon household subordinate erstwhile you've arrived home.

If your travel is substantially delayed, it has the powerfulness to archer others that you person not made it location safely yet.

The caller operating strategy volition beryllium disposable successful Autumn 2023.

Additional reporting by James Clayton and Shiona McCallum