VisionOS is the name of Apple’s newest operating system — the OS that powers the Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s soon-to-launch augmented reality headset.

Unveiled at its annual WWDC conference, Apple describes VisionOS as “the first OS designed for the ground up for spatial computing” — spatial computing being Apple’s phrase of choice for augmented and virtual reality experiences. At the architecture level, VisionOS shares core blocks in common with MacOS and iOS, but adds a “real-time subsystem” for processing interactive visuals on the Apple Vision Pro.

At launch, VisionOS features apps from Adobe (specifically Lightroom), Microsoft (Teams and Office), Cisco (Webex) Zoom and more. There’s a medical app for looking at renders of anatomy, and engineering software for visualizing things physics phenomena, like airflow, on top of real-world objects.

VisionOS is Apple’s latest operating system by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch