WWDC 2025: Apple Unveils visionOS 26 with Spatial Features and Gaming Upgrades

At WWDC 2025, Apple announced visionOS 26, a major update for Apple Vision Pro packed with new spatial experiences, smarter interaction, and enhanced personalization. Check all the new features --

Spatial Widgets Now in Your Space

Widgets in visionOS 26 become truly immersive, appearing right in your space whenever you wear Apple Vision Pro. You can now place widgets like Clock, Weather, Music, and Photos anywhere in your environment - with customizable frame size, color, and depth. The new Widgets app makes it easy to find and add widgets, including those from iOS and iPadOS apps, and developers can create their own using WidgetKit.

WWDC 2025: Apple Unveils visionOS 26 with Spatial Features

Enhanced Shared Spatial Experiences

visionOS 26 lets users share experiences with others in the same room using Apple Vision Pro - from watching 3D movies and playing spatial games to collaborating on projects. Remote participants can join via FaceTime for fully immersive interactions. Apps like Dassault Systèmes' 3DLive are using this to allow teams to visualize and work on 3D designs together.

More Realistic Personas

The Persona feature is now more expressive and lifelike, with better detail for hair, lashes, and facial features, including full side profile views. Users can also customize their look by choosing from over 1,000 glasses styles during setup.

Introducing Spatial Scenes

visionOS 26 introduces Spatial Scenes, which use AI and depth data to turn photos into lifelike 3D environments. You can look around and explore from multiple angles. These can be viewed in Photos, Spatial Gallery, Safari, and more. Developers, like those behind the Zillow Immersive app, can use the new Spatial Scene API to bring depth and realism to their apps.

Smarter Browsing and Gameplay

Safari now supports spatial browsing, letting articles transform into immersive scenes and enabling interactive 3D models on web pages. visionOS 26 also adds support for the PlayStation VR2 Sense controller, bringing advanced motion tracking and haptic feedback to gaming on Vision Pro.