Passthrough Zoom & Live Recognition<\/p>\n
The improved magnification functionality will arrive as an update to the Zoom accessibility feature, which currently only magnifies virtual content. With the update, it will also magnify the real world.<\/p>\n
The enhanced Zoom accessibility coming to visionOS later this year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the ability to describe, find, or read anything in view will be an extension of VoiceOver, which currently functions as a screen reader. Called\u00a0Live Recognition, Apple says the feature will process the passthrough view using on-device machine learning to “describe surroundings, find objects, read documents, and more”.<\/p>\n
Passthrough API For Accessibility<\/p>\n
Apple also says it will offer a new API for “accessibility developers” in “approved apps” to access the passthrough view “to provide live, person-to-person assistance for visual interpretation”.<\/p>\n
While the Meta Horizon OS of Quest headsets now<\/a> lets all apps access the passthrough cameras if the user grants permission, and Google’s Android XR will too at launch, visionOS currently<\/a> only allows this for non-public enterprise apps “for use in a business setting only”, and getting this access requires a special license from Apple.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quest\u2019s Passthrough Camera API Can Now Be Used In Store Apps<\/p>\n The Quest 3 & Quest 3S Passthrough Camera API can now be used in shipping apps on the Meta Horizon Store.<\/p>\n Apple’s wording<\/a> in announcing wider passthrough camera access suggests that it will only be for accessibility apps after a specific approval process. But given the stance of Horzion OS and Android XR, we’ll keep an eye out for any further announcements around passthrough camera access at WWDC25<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple Vision Pro is getting the ability to magnify passthrough, as well as to describe, find, or read…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-98454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114501385275849392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Quest-Passthrough-Camera-API.png\")
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