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Apple R1
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Apple R1
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| Designer | Apple |
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| Introduced | February 2024 (Apple Vision Pro) |
| Role | Real-time sensor fusion coprocessor |
| Inputs | 12 cameras · 5 sensors · 6 microphones — new image within 12 ms |
| Devices | Apple Vision Pro (with Apple M2, 2024; with Apple M5, 2025) |
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The Apple R1 exists for one job the M-series cannot be trusted with: never being late. In the Apple Vision Pro it continuously fuses twelve cameras, five sensors, and six microphones, streaming fresh images to the displays within twelve milliseconds — eight times faster than the blink of an eye — so the passthrough world never lags the real one and the wearer's inner ear never disagrees with their eyes.
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The R1 is Apple's first chip whose spec sheet is measured in latency, not speed — the piece of silicon that makes spatial computing physically tolerable. It carried unchanged into the M5-generation Vision Pro, its real-time guarantee outliving the main processor beside it.
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