The Apple Vision Pro Is Coming: Should Websites Start Getting Ready? 

After years of anticipation, the Apple Vision Pro - the company's augmented reality/virtual reality headset - is finally set to launch in 2024. It will, among other things, allow users to browse the Internet in a way akin to something out of the Tom Cruise film "Minority Report" - or at least that's what people feel like right now.

But does this mean that to get ahead in the new year your business will need to start designing a 3D spacial app that will replace your website? No, of course not. But if the Vision Pro is anything like the iPhone, it will slowly but steadily grow in popularity over time. As it does, more and more people will use it to browse the web. There are small-but-important UX/UI choices you can make in the short-term that can potentially pay off in the long-run as all this happens.

A Brave New World

Naturally, the major appeal of the Apple Vision Pro (or any other AR/VR headset, for that matter) is that it has a fully 3D interface that you can interact with in an organic way. It's designed to integrate fully digital content into someone's physical surroundings in a way that looks and feels real.

So while there are certain things about the Apple Vision Pro that your average website won't have to account for in the short-term, there are still stylistic choices we can make to better support the impending AR/VR future.

Interaction on the device depends on visual cues, for example. It knows where a user is focusing and certain aspects of navigation depend on it. With the theory that our websites will eventually be viewed on such a device, we should absolutely keep that in mind when making choices regarding layout and content formatting.

As stated, the Apple Vision Pro leverages natural interaction to allow a user to control things with not only their eyes but their hands and voice. That goes for both native apps and content they experience online. What design choices can we make today that would enable this tomorrow? What color and contrast-related decisions can support this?

In many ways, thinking about how user experience and design can support a device like the Apple Vision Pro is not dissimilar to the way we think about accessibility today. It's another way that we help make sure that anyone can enjoy our content on any device in any way they'd like, no matter what.

Your Website Development Toledo Partner

At InfoStream, our position as Toledo Ohio web design experts requires us to stay on the cutting edge of industry-related advancements like these. We're excited for the potential that spacial devices like the Apple Vision Pro bring with them. Does that mean that we all need to start designing 3D websites with natural interaction tomorrow? Not quite - but there are certain style-driven features that we can start preparing for and InfoStream is proud to help your organization to that end.

If you'd like to find out more information about what the arrival of devices like the Apple Vision Pro could mean for the future of user experience and web design, or if you have any additional questions you'd like to go over with a website design Toledo professional in a bit more detail, please contact the InfoStream team today.