RealityOS: Everything We Know About the Software Designed for Apple's Mixed Reality Headset - MacRumors

Apple is processing a mixed world AR/VR headset that's acceptable to motorboat successful little than a year, if rumors are to beryllium believed. With caller hardware comes caller software, and Apple is moving connected a headset operating strategy that is acceptable to beryllium called realityOS oregon rOS.

This usher aggregates everything that we cognize astir the realityOS operating strategy that volition tally connected the upcoming AR/VR headset. We'll update this usher implicit clip arsenic we larn much astir realityOS.

rOS

Apple has been moving connected the bundle that volition tally connected the AR/VR headset since 2017, and according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple volition notation to it arsenic realityOS, oregon rOS. The sanction volition spell on with the headset's name, which is expected to beryllium either Reality One oregon Reality Pro.

realityOS is codenamed "Oak" internally, and references to it person been discovered successful App Store logs and Apple root code, confirming the name.

Software Goals

Apple sees the headset arsenic a instrumentality for gaming, watching streaming video content, and video conferencing and interfacing with different people, and that volition beryllium what Apple focuses connected successful presumption of software. Gurman has described the headset arsenic an "all-encompassing 3D environment" designed for gaming, media consumption, and communication.

FaceTime

FaceTime volition beryllium an important connection app for rOS, incorporating existing features similar SharePlay and Memojis/Animojis. With SharePlay, headset wearers could ticker TV shows and movies together, and usage Memoji and Animoji arsenic their virtual avatars. With each of the cameras that the headset is expected to have, it volition apt observe facial expressions and enactment similar Animoji and Memoji connected the iPhone and iPad.

Messages

Core apps similar Messages volition beryllium disposable connected the AR/VR headset successful summation to ‌FaceTime‌, though however the Messages app volition enactment isn't known astatine this time. One rumor has suggested that Apple is creating a full new mentation of Messages with chat rooms, enactment for video clips, a location view, and more.

Maps

The Maps app volition beryllium disposable connected the headset, but we don't person further accusation connected what the Maps app mightiness beryllium susceptible of. It could possibly incorporated immoderate of Apple's Look Around and landmark functionality, allowing users to research cities astir the world.

Games

Games are a cardinal diagnostic connected the ‌iPhone‌, ‌iPad‌, and Apple TV, and the AR/VR headset is besides expected to enactment a scope of games. Apple Arcade, for example, could grow to see AR/VR games that are disposable connected the headset.

App Store

The Mac, ‌iPhone‌, ‌Apple TV‌, and Apple Watch each person their ain dedicated App Stores for downloading apps, and the AR/VR headset is besides expected to get its ain ‌App Store‌.

Streaming Video Content

Apple's hiring suggests that Apple is processing a video work for the headset, which volition see 3D contented that tin beryllium played successful virtual reality. Apple whitethorn besides beryllium partnering with third-party services to make contented that tin beryllium watched successful VR.

rOS Launch Date

With the AR/VR headset connected way to debut astatine immoderate constituent successful 2023, apt successful the archetypal fractional of the year, that's besides erstwhile we expect to spot the archetypal mentation of realityOS. Apple could possibly present realityOS and the headset astatine the Worldwide Developers Conference successful June, but there's besides a accidental that it could travel retired earlier then.

More connected Apple's AR/VR Headset

The mixed world headset that Apple has successful the works volition person high-resolution displays, much than a twelve cameras, a almighty Mac-level chip, and more, with full details disposable successful our AR/VR headset roundup.