September 16, 2024
UPDATE
visionOS 2 for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional is obtainable at present
visionOS 2 is obtainable at present, bringing new spatial computing experiences to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers world wide. Current images can now be changed into spatial images 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 Photographs app into spatial images with natural-looking depth and dimension. With only a faucet, visionOS 2 leverages superior machine studying algorithms to convey new life to 2D images, enabling customers to revisit and reconnect with cherished recollections in methods by no means earlier than attainable.
SharePlay within the Photographs app makes it straightforward for customers to share content material of their library, together with beautiful spatial images 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 favourite shared albums, and extra whereas feeling as if everyone seems to be bodily current collectively in the identical room. The Photographs app in visionOS 2 has been redesigned to assist customers maintain their library organized, and makes it straightforward to shortly discover spatial images, movies, and extra. Customers may also trim movies of their photograph 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 may have the ability to seize beautiful spatial video. Skilled customers will have the ability to edit their spatial movies with Last 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 House View and different options much more handy. Now when customers elevate their hand in entrance of them and faucet their fingers, they will shortly get to the House View, or they will flip their hand to see the time, verify the battery stage, modify the amount, and even entry Management Middle.
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 Atmosphere, Imaginative and prescient Professional will intelligently detect and reveal the consumer’s bodily Magic Keyboard. And with the power to customise their House View, customers can organize apps wherever they like and shortly entry those they use most.
Later this yr, Mac Digital Show will function an expandable, ultra-wide display that wraps across the consumer — creating the equal of getting two 4K shows sitting facet by facet.
Widespread Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional Experiences Get All-New Capabilities
With visionOS 2, key apps and options that customers love and depend on each day get even higher:
- Journey Mode expands to incorporate trains, so customers can immerse themselves in a gorgeous Atmosphere and work privately in a number of apps, or compensate for the most recent films and reveals on a large display, 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 steadily, visionOS can now save the newest visitor’s eye and hand information 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 in any Atmosphere — creating a shocking cinematic viewing expertise with a gorgeous glow and reflection from the display. The wonderful panoramic photograph 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 beautiful Environments, enabling customers to flee to a tropical paradise the place they will get pleasure from serene environment and create the right house 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 assist Multiview, which permits sports activities followers to look at as much as 5 video games directly to allow them to maintain monitor of all their favourite sports activities and groups.
- The Mindfulness app helps customers obtain calm and focus with a brand new function referred to as Comply with Your Respiration that presents dynamic visible animations and sounds that reply to the consumer’s respiration 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 obtainable at present as a free software program replace for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. For extra data, go to apple.com/visionos/visionos-2. Some options will not be accessible in all areas or languages.
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