Apple has long touted the potential of the iPhone and Apple Watch to help people live healthier lives, both through its own features as well as with apps from researchers and outside companies. Naturally, with the launch of Vision Pro, it has begun to explore the headset’s potential in health care as well.
Many companies that have been working for years on health care applications for virtual and augmented reality told STAT that they were overwhelmingly impressed with what Apple has brought to market: how it managed to combine VR and AR into a single device and how the device’s computing power and display quality appear superior to competitors, like Meta’s Quest headsets.
Despite that admiration, companies said they would move cautiously to embrace the technology for their own purposes. While most companies are already investigating Apple’s “spatial computing” technology, they said it’s too early to understand how it fits into their health care businesses.
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