With visionOS 2, Apple’s Vision Pro comes into focus

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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.

After a few months of using it in beta, visionOS 2 isn't a dramatic change - it's more like a smoothed-out version of the software the headset launched with. The addition of things like new gestures, better device support, and a couple of splashy features has removed a lot of the friction of using the Vision Pro and should give people who own it a reason to dust it off and take it for another spin.

Improving the basics

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