Apple aims to boost Vision Pro with AI features, spatial content app

Apple is planning to add Apple Intelligence to its Vision Pro headset, along with an updated mode for guest users and a spatial content app, as it seeks to boost interest in the device.

The company aims to roll out the features as part of a visionOS 2.4 software upgrade targeted for as early as April, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The enhancements will become available in beta for developers as soon as this week, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing details of the update that aren’t yet public.

Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro will include standard features like the Writing Tools interface, Genmojis and the Image Playground app. It’s the first time Apple is expanding its artificial intelligence tools from the iPhone, iPad and Mac. Because the headset includes a Mac M2 chip and 16 gigabytes of memory, it’s able to support the on-device AI processing.

The addition of Apple Intelligence to the Vision Pro comes at an important time: Alphabet Inc.’s Google recently announced its own mixed-reality operating system — Android XR — that integrates its Gemini AI platform deep into the user interface. The first devices with the Google OS will launch later this year, starting with a Samsung Electronics Co. headset that looks like a Vision Pro.