visionOS 26 Announced With Spatial Widgets, Shared Experiences, Enhanced Personas, and More

Apple astatine WWDC announced visionOS 26, bringing spatial widgets, dramatically improved Personas, and caller collaborative experiences to Apple Vision Pro users.


Apple says the update transforms widgets into spatial objects that integrate seamlessly into users' carnal environments. These customizable widgets – including Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos –offer unsocial interactions and persist successful abstraction each clip users don Vision Pro. Users tin decorate their surroundings with panoramas, spatial photos, distinctive timepiece faces, and speedy entree to Apple Music playlists. The caller Widgets app helps observe compatible widgets from iOS and iPadOS apps, according to Apple.


Elsewhere, Personas person their astir important upgrade yet, leveraging volumetric rendering and instrumentality learning for striking expressivity and sharpness. The enhanced avatars present show afloat broadside profiles with remarkably close hair, lashes, and complexion details. Users tin preview their Persona spatially during setup and take from implicit 1,000 glasses variations.


Apple is touting a standout feature, Spatial Scenes, which uses generative AI and computational extent to alteration regular photos into multi-perspective experiences. Users tin thin successful and look astir these enhanced images successful Photos, Spatial Gallery, and Safari. Zillow is already implementing the Spatial Scene API successful their Immersive app for affluent spot visualizations.

In a large addition, visionOS 26 enables shared spatial experiences betwixt Vision Pro users successful the aforesaid room. Multiple users tin ticker 3D movies together, play spatial games, oregon collaborate connected projects portion adding distant participants via FaceTime.

Meanwhile, Safari gains spatial browsing mode, transforming articles and revealing spatial scenes portion scrolling. Also, web developers tin embed 3D models straight into pages for immersive buying and browsing experiences.

Gaming expands with PlayStation VR2 Sense controller support, offering high-performance question tracking, digit interaction detection, and vibration feedback. The level besides present supports autochthonal playback of 180-degree, 360-degree, and wide field-of-view contented from Insta360, GoPro, and Canon cameras.


There are caller endeavor capabilities with squad instrumentality sharing, allowing organizations to negociate shared Vision Pro pools. Users tin securely prevention oculus data, manus patterns, imaginativeness prescriptions, and accessibility settings to iPhone for seamless instrumentality switching. The Protected Content API ensures confidential materials stay unafraid portion preventing copying oregon surface sharing.

Additional updates see Look to Scroll for eye-controlled navigation, iPhone unlocking portion wearing Vision Pro, telephone relaying from iPhone, and Home View folder support. Lastly, Apple Intelligence features grow with Image Playground updates and caller connection enactment for French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

visionOS 26 enters developer beta contiguous with wide availability planned for autumn 2025.
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