Today at Apple’s annual WWDC 2023 conference, the company announced the release of its long-rumored augmented reality (AR) Headset, the Vision Pro. The headset has a ski goggle-like design with a continuous front panel that acts as a lens, concealing a fan to cool the electronics inside. The headset has two displays with 23 million pixels across both and a custom 3D lens to ensure that the UI always remains within view, and features like HDR and “wide color” deliver an ostensibly superior image. The Vision Pro has 23 sensors in total, including a dozen cameras, five sensors and six mics, which feed into the R1 chip, a new Apple-originated chip designed to “eliminate lag” and stream images to the headset’s display “eight times faster than the blink of an eye”. The software powering the Vision Pro is visionOS, which Apple describes as “the first OS designed for the ground up for spatial computing”. The three-dimensional interface of visionOS responds dynamically to natural light and casts shadows to help communicate scale and distance. The headset will be available “early next year,” priced at $3,499.