Check out our coverage from Cupertino, California, where Apple announced its Vision Pro headset, iOS 17 for iPhone, the Mac Studio with M2, the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, the 15-inch MacBook Air and more.
Apple kicked off its 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote Monday. As expected, it announced its new headset, the Vision Pro. The Vision Pro will cost $3,499 when it launches early next year. Apple also announced:
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Apple's Vision Pro headset will run on visionOS a brand-new platform for the Vision Pro headset. It's a spatial computing platform that developers will be able to build for, much like they would for iOS on iPhone or macOS for Mac.
It will be able to run a multi-app, 3D engine, and Apple said it is the first operating system designed from the ground up for spatial computing.
--Ashley Capoot
Apple announced its first new major product line since 2014, the Vision Pro headset. The crowd assembled here at Apple Park is excited, but the reaction to Apple's new augmented reality headset reveal was somewhat more muted than other announcements earlier in the day, such as the iPad's ability to set multiple timers, or the ability to locate a lost Apple TV Siri Remote.
Apple spent a lot of time explaining the headset, but for now, it appears to do many of the same things as the iPhone — messages, FaceTime, browsing the web. The biggest reaction was to the Vision Pro's feature that allows it to become a Mac monitor. — Kif Leswing
Apple stock dipped on Monday after it announced its highly-anticipated Vision Pro headset, falling into the red momentarily. It's now relatively flat, as of 2:38 p.m. ET, and remains off its $184.95 high earlier in the day.
Apple's headset is finally here, and it's called Vision Pro. It'll retail for $3,499, early next year on Apple's website.
It features exterior cameras, allowing users to interact with digital content in mixed reality. The product will have 2 hours of use on a battery pack that the headset plugs into.
When users don the headset, they arrive at the Home view, a floating set of icons with Apple's most used apps, including Mail, Music, Messages, and Safari. The system doesn't need controllers or hardware.
Working with Unity, "hundreds of thousands" of iPad and iPhone apps will run on visionOS at launch. Microsoft's Office Productivity suite will also work on visionOS.
It's powered by Apple's M2 chipset, paired alongside a brand-new chip called R1, designed for "real-time sensor processing." Those chipsets power Apple's new operating system, visionOS.
That helps Vision Pro create an "authentic" digital presence for users for video calls, powered by machine learning since the system doesn't have a camera facing the user.
Using a user's iris, Optic ID will lock and unlock the Vision Pro.
For vision correction, Apple partnered with Zeiss to build corrective lens add-ons. High-speed IR cameras and LED illuminators track a user's eyes to free them from "clumsy" controllers, Apple said.
You can control it with hands, eyes, and voice, Tim Cook said. "Relive your most important memories in an entirely new way," Cook said. The 23-million pixel panel has more pixels than a 4K television per eye, Apple executives said.
Disney CEO Bob Iger also appeared, to tout a partnership between Disney and Apple: enhancing the viewing experience for Disney's treasure trove of content through Apple's VR technology.
For example, the demo included a three-dimensional visualization of a basketball court and an immersive National Geographic application that placed the viewer in the ocean.
Disney+ will be available on day one, Iger said.
When users look at a particular icon, the system can track eyes to highlight the preferred icon.
People looking at someone with the Vision Pro on can see the user's eyes, using a technology called EyeSight, to help signal when someone is busy or available. When someone is nearby, the mixed-reality functionality will clear apps so a user can see through.
"You can create a private moment of calm," an Apple executive said. It's multi-tasking enabled and can visualize images and three-dimensional renders in the mixed-reality environment.
FaceTime has gained an entire new dimension, allowing lifesize calls with spatial functionality. It's not an avatar, like with Meta's Quest line, but rather through small boxes that appear in the mixed-reality environment.
Apple also emphasized business applications, noting that Vision Pro made work travel much easier with collaborative functionality.
Home users can watch videos in full-screen mode, dimming their environment and surrounding a user with Apple's Spatial Audio.
Cook called it a "spatial journey."
— Rohan Goswami
Apple just announced watchOS 10, the latest software for the Apple Watch.
Here's what's new:
The software will be available to all users next fall.
Apple announced several new tvOS updates on Monday. One highlight: FaceTime is coming to Apple TV. You can use your camera on the iPad or iPhone and view the people you're talking to on your big screen.
Apple also said you'll soon be able to find your lost Apple TV remote using FindMy, so long as you have the newer Siri remote.
-- Todd Haselton
Apple announced new audio and home experiences, including new features for its AirPods headphones.
The company introduced adaptive audio, which blends transparency and noise cancellation to match the environment that users are in. It works when listening to music and taking calls.
--Ashley Capoot
Apple just announced its latest Mac software. It's called macOS Sonoma, named for California's vineyard country. Here's what's new:
— Rohan Goswami
Apple just announced the latest iPadOS 17 software for the iPad.
Here's a rundown of the new features:
— Rohan Goswami
Apple introduced a new experience called Standby, which will show up for users when they place their iPhone on its side using a stand.
The iPhone screen will show the time, and users can pick from a variety of different clocks. Users can also swipe to engage with widgets like weather and home controls. The screen adapts to low light to help users sleep.
Users can also ask Siri to do tasks like play music or set timers, completely hands-free.
Apple just announced iOS 17, which includes a bunch of changes coming to the iPhone.
Apple is unveiling updates to three apps, Phone, Facetime, and Messages.
— Rohan Goswami
Apple just announced a new Mac Pro, its highest-end desktop computer, with the M2 Ultra chip. It's the last Apple computer to ditch Intel for Apple silicon. It starts at $6,999.
It'll feature the M2 Ultra's 24-core CPU, support up to a 76-core GPU, eight Thunderbolt 4 ports, and up to six of Apple's high-end Pro Display XDR.
Both products can be ordered today for availability next week.
It's a game-changing move for high-end Apple computers, which historically relied on Intel chipsets until recently.
— Rohan Goswami
Apple just announced a series of updates for Mac Studio. It can be configured with either Apple's M2 Max or M2 Ultra chips.
--Ashley Capoot
Apple just unveiled the 15-inch MacBook Air. It's 11.5mm thick, just over 3 pounds, and powered by Apple's own M2 chipset. The video demo showcased a standard headphone jack, two USB-C ports, and Apple's MagSafe charging dock.
The laptop will ship in four colors, including Midnight and Starlight. The laptop features an 18-hour battery with an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU
It costs $1,299. The 13-inch version will now cost $1,099. Customers can order it today and it'll be available next week.
— Rohan Goswami
Apple CEO Tim Cook has just arrived on stage. He's expected to unveil Apple's virtual reality headset and the slew of developer and tech features that have typified past WWDCs. "This is going to be a historic day," he said.
"This morning's announcements, deep integration with hardware software and services, it's something only Apple can do. Today we're going to make some of our biggest announcements at WWDC. As well as introducing some exciting new products."
— Rohan Goswami
Apple has a long track record at bringing disruptive products to sleepy markets and galvanizing demand. The company pioneering products, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad, disrupted their respective sectors.
Virtual reality products have struggled for years to gain consumer adoption and maintain institutional support. Microsoft made a play with the HoloLens, and Meta's bet-the-house move on its Reality Labs vertical has disappointed some investors and analysts.
But Apple's reputation as an innovator may allow it to succeed where others have failed, with time.
Read more about why that might happen from CNBC's Kif Leswing.
— Rohan Goswami
Foste +Partners and namesake partner Norman Foster, Baron Foster, designed the Steve Jobs Theater in what the firm described as an "extraordinary eight-year collaboration" between the two companies.
Steve Jobs Theater boasts the "largest carbon-fiber roof in the world," Foster+Partners says, and like Apple's headquarters buildings and many of its marquee Apple Stores, is clad in glass.
1,000 people can sit in the below-ground auditorium, which has hosted WWDC events, investor meetings, and product demos for top Apple executives — including, reportedly, a "polished" demo of the rumored mixed-reality headset.
— Rohan Goswami
Though Apple is expected to announce its mixed-reality headset Monday, Ming-Chi Kuo, a renowned Apple analyst, suggested that consumers shouldn't expect to buy it for a while.
Kuo wrote in a tweet Monday that mass shipments of the headset are expected to begin late this year or early next year. He added that shipments will likely be lower than the market consensus.
"However, the focus for investors now is not on shipments but on whether the new product announcement will convince people that Apple's AR/MR headset device is the next star in consumer electronics," he wrote.
--Ashley Capoot
In keeping with tradition, the Apple Store is temporarily down. Apple often makes changes to the store ahead of major product launches and events.
The company's website says, "We're making updates to the Apple Store. Check back soon."
--Ashley Capoot