Report: Apple’s upcoming VR and AR operating system has a new name - Ars Technica

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Bloomberg study claims that Apple has begun referring to it arsenic "xrOS."

Samuel Axon - Dec 2, 2022 8:15 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / An aboriginal augmented world demo by Apple, utilizing a smartphone alternatively of a headset.

Apple's mixed-reality headset is inactive connected way for an unveiling sometime adjacent year, and its aboriginal operating strategy has a caller name, according to a report published Thursday.

Bloomberg claims the sanction of the operating strategy has changed from the antecedently leaked "realityOS" to "xrOS." XR stands for extended reality—sometimes besides called mixed reality—a commonly utilized catch-all word for some virtual world (VR) and augmented world (AR), arsenic good arsenic experiences that harvester aspects of both.

In reports and leaks to date, Apple's adjacent upcoming headset has been said to beryllium an XR one, not strictly a VR oregon AR one—though determination are besides rumors of an AR-focused instrumentality that would motorboat later. The headset is acceptable for a motorboat sometime adjacent year, though it has been delayed galore times earlier and whitethorn beryllium yet again.

Bloomberg cites radical acquainted with the substance who person said Apple has begun referring to the bundle by the xrOS sanction internally. Further, a ammunition corp called Deep Dive LLC has filed trademarks for the marque successful immoderate regions. The filings specify that the trademark relates to "head-mounted displays" and "virtual world and augmented world experiences."

Apple has utilized ammunition companies similar this to record trademarks earlier merchandise reveals successful the past.

Not overmuch is known astir xrOS, different than that it volition see XR versions of galore well-known Apple apps similar FaceTime, News, Notes, Maps, and Messages. Apple is besides moving connected immoderate signifier of mixed-reality world, possibly akin successful immoderate respects (though surely not successful each respects) to Meta's Horizon Worlds and the wide hyped metaverse conception fashionable with galore startups and task capitalists.

As for the hardware, it is believed to person respective sensors some wrong and retired and a precise high-resolution surface compared to astir competing devices. It volition tally connected a spot related to the M2 recovered successful caller Macs. Some reports person said that it looks a spot similar skis goggles, suggesting it whitethorn beryllium a smaller and little cumbersome headset than the Meta Quest oregon galore different existent VR headsets.