Apple Tells Developers Not To Call Their AR or VR Apps AR or VR Apps

With Apple's Vision Pro VR/AR headset set to go on sale on February 2, we're starting to see more details about the app requirements. From a report: The company has released guidelines for visionOS developers planning to release apps and there's one strange caveat. It would rather developers don't use the terms AR and VR when referring to Vision Pro apps, but rather call them 'spatial computing apps,' according to the developer page.

'Spatial computing: Refer to your app as a spatial computing app. Don't describe your app experience as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR), or mixed reality (MR),' the company states. The headset itself should be called 'Apple Vision Pro' with three uppercase words, while 'visionOS begins with a lowercase v, even when it's the first word in a sentence.' The terms should never be translated or transliterated, Apple added.

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