Apple’s visionOS 26 adds PSVR2 controller support and spatial widgets to the Vision Pro

The Apple Vision Pro is getting its 3rd large bundle update this year.

Apple announced the latest large update for its Vision Pro headset during the company’s WWDC 2025 keynote presumption connected Monday. It’s present called visionOS 26 to lucifer Apple’s caller naming normal for its mobile and desktop operating systems.

One of the biggest additions is widgets that look blended into carnal environments, , “integrating seamlessly into a user’s abstraction and reappearing each clip they enactment connected Apple Vision Pro.” Users tin customize a widget’s framework width, color, and depth, and visionOS 26 is introducing respective caller widgets including a Clock, Weather, Music that provides speedy entree to playlists, and Photos that displays “stunning panoramas and spatial photos of their favourite memories.”

The Vision Pro was already compatible with Bluetooth accessories similar keyboards, mice, and crippled controllers, but visionOS 26 present supports an existent VR-first accessory: the PlayStation’s R2 Sense controllers. First mentioned past year, VR controller enactment opens up options beyond modular console gamepads, making it imaginable to play much blase VR oregon AR games and offering, successful general, a much foolproof power strategy than Apple’s eye- and finger-based tracking. 

A cardinal diagnostic that promises to amended the day-to-day usage of the Apple Vision Pro is simply a caller hands-free scrolling option. Previous versions of visionOS required users to pinch their thumb and scale digit unneurotic to drawback contented and past resistance it successful either absorption to scroll, oregon execute a pinch and flick motion to scroll faster. visionOS 26 is introducing a caller Look to Scroll diagnostic allowing “users to research apps and websites utilizing conscionable their eyes” with the enactment to set the velocity of the scroll. Eye scrolling volition beryllium disposable successful Apple’s ain apps portion an API volition let developers to adhd the functionality to third-party apps.

New iPhone interoperability includes the quality to unlock the telephone portion wearing the Apple Vision Pro, adjacent during a afloat immersive experience, and volition beryllium disposable for iPhone models moving iOS 26.3. visionOS 26 volition besides enactment relaying calls from an iPhone, truthful users tin reply telephone calls straight from the Vision Pro, oregon commencement a telephone from the headset’s People View.

Last year’s visionOS 2 update introduced respective features that improved the day-to-day usability of the Apple Vision Pro, including the quality to rearrange app icons connected the homescreen, Bluetooth rodent support, and a elemental wrist rotation motion for checking the clip oregon the headset’s artillery life. visionOS 2 besides expanded the Vision Pro’s capabilities arsenic a productivity instrumentality with the quality to make a dual 4K-equivalent curved ultrawide show with the headset connected to a Mac.

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