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Apple Vision Pro

Apple loves coming up with new names for stuff that already exists. Video calls? No, those are FaceTime. A hi-res screen? That’s a Retina display. And its new Vision Pro isn’t a mixed reality headset, it’s a spatial computer.

Powered by both an M2 and a new R1 chip, it takes everything coming from the 12 cameras, six mics and five other onboard sensors and processes it eight times faster than the blink of an eye. That means you can move around the visionOS menus, app screens, movies and panorama photos that float in the room in front

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