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Samuel Axon Apple is struggling to attract fresh content for its innovative Vision Pro headset, with just a fraction of the apps available when compared with the number of developers created for the iPhone and iPad in their first few months. The lack of a “killer app” to encourage customers to pay upwards of $3,500…

Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo.Apple Apple's Vision Pro headset went on sale outside the United States for the first time today, in the first of two waves of expanded availability. The $3,499 "spatial computing" device launched back in February in the US, but it hasn't taken the…

Apple is still figuring out its road map to launching another life-changing device.When the Vision Pro headset launched in February, the $3,500 price tag and lack of a really great app gave mainstream consumers pause. Since then, Apple has been considering ways to push the headset product line forward and attract new customers, Bloomberg reported.Those…

Samuel Axon A report by tech news site The Information suggests that Apple is shifting its augmented reality priorities. The next high-end version of the Vision Pro has purportedly been canceled while work continues on a more affordable version with a reduced feature set. Citing both an employee in Apple's headset supply chain and one…

Enlarge / A Mac virtual monitor in visionOS 2.Samuel Axon CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple kicked off the keynote for its annual developer conference by announcing a new version of visionOS, the operating system that runs on the company's pricey but impressive Vision Pro mixed reality headset. The updates in visionOS 2 are modest, not revolutionary—mostly iterative changes,…

Enlarge / The logo for WWDC24.Apple Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, kicks off in Cupertino, California, next week. As always, it will start with a livestream keynote on Monday morning at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern. We'll be in attendance reporting on the event, so let's take a moment to take stock of what…

Apple's Vision Pro headset was the buzziest gadget when it was released, but the excitement has fizzled.Apple lowered its sales projections as the $3,500 headset isn't flying off shelves.It still looks cool, but I'm just not sure what you do with it? Please, tell me! Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a…

Apple is exploring the creation of home robots in an effort to make its "next big thing" after the company ended its self-driving car project earlier this year, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.The tech giant is looking into developing a mobile robot that follows users around their houses, Bloomberg reported. It's also working…

I made a lot of questionable purchases as a teenage gadget geek in the 1990s, but the one that made my parents most regret giving me a credit card was the Sony Glasstron. The flimsy head-mounted display (which offered the "stunning" clarity of 800 x 600 pixels), the attached earbuds, and the video cable tether…

I made a lot of questionable purchases as a teenage gadget geek in the 1990s, but the one that made my parents most regret giving me a credit card was the Sony Glasstron. The flimsy head-mounted display (which offered the "stunning" clarity of 800 x 600 pixels), the attached earbuds, and the video cable tether…