Report: Apple AR, VR Headset Software Renamed For XR - CNET

Apple has reportedly renamed the bundle that runs its upcoming augmented world (AR) and virtual world (VR) headset up of the product's imaginable merchandise adjacent year. 

While the operating strategy had been internally named "realityOS," it's now been switched to "xrOS," Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. That could bespeak the headset's absorption connected extended world ('XR'), which encompasses some AR and VR. 

Embracing "xrOS" would besides beryllium a departure from what seemed similar a wide naming convention, arsenic trademarks had popped up with product-sounding names similar Reality One, Reality Pro and Reality Processor. The caller Bloomberg study notes that a caller ammunition corp called Deep Dive LLC has filed trademarks for "xrOS" successful respective countries and is successful the process of securing the sanction successful the US. Both cases could beryllium true: the operating strategy could person been renamed, but the Reality marque could proceed arsenic the headset bid name.

While a previous Bloomberg report suggested interior disagreement wrong Apple connected whether to make abstracted AR and VR headsets, the caller xrOS sanction fits much caller rumors that a mixed-reality headset is connected its way. Whichever the case, Apple's archetypal headset could beryllium pricey: a rumor past twelvemonth suggested the company's archetypal VR headset would beryllium "far much expensive" than different VR products that travel successful nether $900 -- though it's unclear if it would beryllium much exorbitantly priced that the $1,500 Meta Quest Pro.

Apple did not respond to a petition for remark by clip of publication.