What is new in visionOS 2?

What's New in visionOS 2

Key Updates and Features

1. Enhanced Scene Understanding:

   • Planes Detection: Now detects planes in all orientations, allowing for anchoring objects on various surfaces.
   • Room Anchors: Considers the user's surroundings on a per-room basis and can detect user movement across rooms.
   • Object Tracking API: Allows attaching content to individual objects around the user, enabling new dimensions of interactivity.

2. User Interaction:

   • Hand Positioning: Developers can now decide if the user's hands appear in front of or behind the content, enhancing creative app experiences.

3. Known Object Tracking:

   • Parameter Adjustment: Apps can detect and track specific reference objects within their viewing area. Parameters can be tuned for optimizing object tracking, including the number of objects tracked, tracking rate, and detection rate.

4. Enterprise APIs:

   • New APIs: Six new APIs have been introduced to support enterprise environments, enhancing collaboration, communication, and guided work activities.

5. Device Management:

   • MDM Support: VisionOS 2.0 extends management for Apple Vision Pro to support most MDM payloads, configurations, and commands, making it as easy to manage as an iPhone or iPad.

6. HealthKit Integration:

   • Immersive Health Experiences: Users can enter an immersive space to reflect on their health data, with distractions minimized for a focused experience.

Sessions Mentioned

• Platforms State of the Union
• What’s new in device management
• Introducing enterprise APIs for visionOS
• Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

For a detailed overview, you can watch the Platforms State of the Union session starting at 56:16.