This Week In XR: Apple Intros Vision Pro, Red 6 And Paradromics BCI Close Rounds, Mira AR Acquired

Apple introduced its new Vision Pro XR headset at the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino Monday, after 10 years of development, instantly making the new “spatial computing” headset the hottest topic in tech. The $3,499 Apple Vision Pro does VR and AR. Users can dial how much of each they want. Hands-on reviewers Scott Stein (CNet), and Ben Lang (Road to VR) are enthusiastic after their limited half-hour demos, but Brian X. Chen of the NY Times had a more nuanced take. In the same edition of the Times, tech columnist Kevin Roose wrote “There are plenty of reasons the Vision Pro could flop. But we shouldn’t forget that Apple has a knack for entering a product category at just the right time.”

Apple to Open Locations for Devs to Test Vision Pro This Summer, SDK This Month. The demos were impressive, but content was lacking, because Apple desperately needs its spatial app ecosystem to grow – quickly.