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| Developer | Apple |
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| Based on | iOS/iPadOS; Darwin |
| Written in | C, C++, Swift, Objective-C, assembly |
| Source model | Closed, with open-source components |
| Initial release | February 2, 2024 (visionOS 1) |
| Latest release | visionOS 26.5 |
| Platform | Arm (Apple Vision Pro) |
| Kernel | Hybrid (XNU) |
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| visionOS1 · 2 · 26 · 27 |
| iOS · iPadOS · macOS · watchOS · tvOS(audioOS) · visionOS |
visionOS is Apple's operating system for the Apple Vision Pro headset — the platform of what Apple calls "spatial computing," launched February 2, 2024, as the company's first all-new operating system since watchOS. Built on the shared Darwin foundation with iPadOS-derived frameworks (most iPad apps run unmodified), it renders software as windows, volumes, and immersive spaces floating in the user's actual room, composited against passthrough video of reality.
Its interaction model is the platform's invention: eyes are the pointer, a finger-pinch the click — no controllers required — with Optic ID iris authentication, spatial audio, and the Digital Crown dialing immersion from a translucent overlay to another world entirely. The version numbering leapt from 2 to 26 with the family's year-aligned scheme.
1 History✎
visionOS 1 (2024) established the grammar — gaze-and-pinch, Environments, beta Personas, Mac Virtual Display; visionOS 2 (2024) answered the first year's requests with 2D-to-spatial photos, system hand gestures, and an ultrawide Mac display; visionOS 26 (2025) made virtual widgets persistent objects in real rooms, finished Personas, added generative spatial scenes, and welcomed PSVR2 controllers; visionOS 27 is in beta, bringing the Siri AI generation to the platform where gaze context fits it most naturally.
2 See also✎
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