Apple opens Vision Pro headset applications for developers, but they can't talk about it

Apple opened up Vision Pro developer kit applications connected Monday, up of a planned 2024 motorboat for the $3,499 headset.

When the instrumentality launches, it volition request a catalog of apps built for its unsocial hardware and capabilities. By opening up applications for a developer's kit months up of its release, Apple is allowing selected developers to usage the existent hardware to physique and fine-tune the apps.

But Apple's developer's kits aren't a brushed motorboat for the product. The instrumentality is simply a indebtedness — not a sale, and it volition stay Apple spot to beryllium returned aft the Vision Pro headset launches. Apple representatives volition besides cheque successful with developers and connection codification reviews to bundle makers and companies with entree to the hardware.

Developers are asked astir what they're making and what Apple tools they've utilized successful the past, and person to hold to confidentiality agreements, including that the instrumentality has to stay astatine the code to which it was shipped, can't beryllium utilized successful public, it has to beryllium locked wrong a Pelican hard lawsuit erstwhile it's not successful use, according to the Apple developer agreement.

Family, friends, roommates, oregon household employees cannot access, view, oregon grip the hardware. Apple besides bars immoderate nationalist treatment of the hardware successful idiosyncratic oregon connected societal media. Apple reserves the close to spot a database of unit who are authorized to enactment connected the device.

Apple revealed the Vision Pro, its caller virtual world merchandise that the institution says is its archetypal "spatial computer," successful June. It's Apple's archetypal large caller merchandise since the Apple Watch successful 2014.

The headset uses almighty cameras and sensors to integrate the existent satellite and virtual objects wrong the headset's high-definition screens mounted millimeters distant from the user's eye.

Many of the Apple-designed apps previewed successful June were fundamentally iPad apps floating successful space. But Apple besides hinted that the instrumentality volition beryllium capable to bash afloat VR applications that immerse the idiosyncratic successful a virtual satellite and previewed immoderate afloat customized applications that interruption machine graphics retired of windows and boxes.

Apple is funny successful developers porting VR apps from different platforms and gathering caller apps conscionable for the Vision Pro. The institution says its prioritizing app makers who privation to instrumentality vantage of the caller hardware's capabilities, alternatively of porting existing iPad apps to the device.

Apple said it volition besides let immoderate developers entree to the hardware astatine "labs" successful cities including London, Shanghai, and Tokyo.