An example of a fully immersive Vision Pro app. (Source: Apple)
Developers can create Apple Vision Pro apps that take over a user’s whole vision, but if that user moves a certain distance, Apple will switch off the app.
Apple doesn’t tend to talk about fully Virtual Reality (VR) in regards to its Vision Pro headset, but the device is capable of it. What it’s more likely to be used for, though, is what Apple calls a “fully immersive experience.”
That’s when nothing of the outside world is visible to the wearer at all, and absolutely everything they see is generated by the headset. That might, for instance, include certain games, or perhaps even movies could entirely fill a user’s view.
Whatever such a fully immersive app does, Apple has provided guidelines for how developers use it — and specifically how to best launch or quit the experience. Among the details in this new developer documentation, though, there is one warning.
What’s more, this is solely for these fully immersive apps. When using AR, where digital objects are shown in the real world, there is no issue about people bumping into things. And therefore, there’s no Apple-imposed limit.
