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This time the news comes from developers on Twitter (via Apple Insider) who noticed that the name realityOS appears countless times in Apple's latest open source code available on GitHub, which itself is a platform for collaborative software development.

The code appears to reference realityOS, version 1.0, which suggests that Apple's operating system for mixed reality headsets and glasses will not start at a higher version, e.g. like iPadOS did.

Which also suggests that realityOS could be an entirely new operating system built from the ground up, as opposed to built from iOS, like iPadOS was.

The latest reports tell us that an Apple AR/VR (augmented reality / virtual reality) headset could be getting unveiled as soon as in the next two months, during or around the Cupertino company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), for an eye-watering price of $3000.

The name realityOS has appeared in leaks for a couple of years now, so it's hardly a surprise to see it basically confirmed, as the name for the operating system powering Apple's next set of devices.

Which, again, will likely start with headsets akin to the Meta Quest, and later, as the technology matures and gets smaller, those will evolve into thinner and lighter sets of Apple AR glasses.

The first Apple mixed-reality headsets themselves recently got some pretty concrete names – Reality One, for the more "affordable" model, and Reality Pro, for the flagship AR headset. Clearly the naming scheme for Apple's headsets will follow what we've known to expect from iPhones and iPad naming schemes, namely the "Pro" title for the more expensive models with higher-end features.

Looks like either Apple is turning into Facebook and is suddenly losing control of leaking things out with this and the hardware component leak earlier, or they are doing this gradually on purpose which I believe is highly probable.

Looks like in dev documentation through collaboration site Github, Apple has posted coding which references RealityOS, which is the upcoming operating system (or the place holder since xrOS has also been a name leaked out) for their upcoming VR headset. Which may, as said in the article, possibly be built from the ground up.

Although there has to be some compatibility with IOS and such on their other platforms, as the VR headset will have continuity features and hand-off ability so I'm curious how this is going to operate.

it seems as we get closer to the supposed reveal, which could change at anytime, for all we know it can be shown next week, more and more harder evidence is "leaking" out than ever before. I think people may be putting a lot of the VR markets fate into Apples hands a bit too much as the most hype covered product in the VR market, despite not being shown yet, but if they are indeed causing this much excitement I would hope the product will meet expectations.

However, at this point the expectations may be set too high, even for $2000-$3000. But it looks like we are going to find out sooner than later in any case.