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Spatial computing, mixed reality and what to expect next

Could the Vision Pro do what the Quest 3 and Hololens couldn’t, and take ‘spatial computing’ mainstream? Alex Meehan investigates

A customer tries on the Apple Vision Pro headset during the product launch in New York. Picture: Getty

An anti-social ‘face computer’ that looks stupid and is tiring to wear, or a ground-breaking innovation that heralds the dawn of a new era of technology?

Those are basically the two ends of the review spectrum that have greeted the release this month of Apple’s Vision Pro headset, a device rumoured to have been in development as far back as 2007. Apple calls it a ‘spatial computer’ and is doing its best to avoid labelling ...