✨ Design & Immersion
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Liquid Glass design across ecosystem: VisionOS 26 adopts Apple’s new translucent, glass-like UI for a unified experience across all devices theverge.com+15elpais.com+15theverge.com+15.
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Spatial widgets: Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos widgets can now be positioned and customized in 3D space—anchored in your physical environment for a consistently immersive experience techcrunch.com+4apple.com+4theverge.com+4.
🕹️ New Interaction & Content
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PS VR2 Sense controller support enables more immersive, 6 DOF gaming inside Vision Pro apple.com+5theverge.com+5reddit.com+5.
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Look to Scroll allows hands-free browsing—just move your eyes to scroll through apps or web content macrumors.com+3theverge.com+3apple.com+3.
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Apple Intelligence & spatial scenes bring generative AI enhancements to photos, making environments feel deeper and more lifelike laptopmag.com+9apple.com+9interestingengineering.com+9.
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Enhanced Personas leverage volumetric rendering and machine learning to create much more natural, expressive avatars—now with side-profile views and highly accurate facial details interestingengineering.com+2theverge.com+2apple.com+2.
📺 Sharing & Media
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Shared spatial experiences let multiple Vision Pro users in the same room—or remotely via FaceTime—watch 3D movies, play games, or collaborate in real time apple.com+8theverge.com+8apple.com+8.
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Native playback of 180°, 360°, and wide-FOV video from Insta360, GoPro, Canon and more brings immersive media directly to the headset timesofindia.indiatimes.com+4apple.com+4interestingengineering.com+4.
🛠 Productivity & System Enhancements
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New enterprise APIs, including Protected Content and team device sharing, are tailored for professional use cases and collaboration elpais.com+7apple.com+7theverge.com+7.
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iPhone integration improves unlocking, call relaying, and continued workflows even when fully immersed apple.com+2theverge.com+2macrumors.com+2.
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Refined UI adds folders in Home View, a redesigned Control Center, faster hand-tracking (up to 90 Hz), and broader language support macrumors.com+5theverge.com+5apple.com+5.
🚀 Availability & Summary
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Developer beta: Available today (June 9, 2025) via Apple Developer Program interestingengineering.com+2apple.com+2theverge.com+2.
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Final release: Expected this fall (September 2025), alongside the full Liquid Glass system rollout elpais.com+6businessinsider.com+6techcrunch.com+6.
In short, visionOS 26 marks a major leap in spatial computing—anchoring digital tools harmoniously in your space, elevating realism, improving accessibility, and enabling multi‑user experiences that redefine how we work, play, and connect.