The announcement of the Apple Vision Pro headset in 2023 brought the buzz over VR and augmented reality (AR)—which overlays digital content onto the real world—to a new level.

I already love the new hand gesture interface, and 3D photo conversions are amazing, too. But I want more, especially for connecting to the iPhone.

The new Vive Focus Vision, which was announced on Wednesday, is a fair bit larger and $1,000 less expensive than that system. The new headset looks to swim in similar waters as Apple’s Vision Pro, Microsoft’s Hololens,

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The Apple Vision Pro AR head unit contains two 100 Hz micro-OLED displays. Inside these displays are the following electronic components: Texas Instruments’ current/power monitor, 1.2 V comparator, single 2-input positive AND gate, triple buffer driver and DC-DC step-down converter.

Apple rolled out updates to all of its major operating systems this week, and the Vision Pro was no exception. With visionOS 2, the company has a chance to show the relative few who bought its spendy headset — and those who might yet — that it’s still committed to the new platform.