Apple will give enterprise access to Vision Pro Cameras

Apple will give enterprise companies raw access to Vision Pro’s passthrough cameras for non-public internal apps.

While mixed reality headsets like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 use cameras to let you see the real world, only the system and certain first-party apps actually get raw access to the cameras.

Third-party developers can use camera passthrough as a background, but their apps don’t get to actually see this passthrough. They only get higher-level data, such as hand and body skeletal coordinates, a 3D mesh of your environment with bounding boxes for furniture, and certain object tracking capabilities.

If iPad apps try to access the selfie camera on Vision Pro they get a virtual webcam view of you as a Persona, Apple’s name for its realistic face-tracked avatars. VisionOS only returns the black screen with the “no-camera” icon at the top of the feed for the rear camera. These Enterprise APIs include:

visionOS 2 Officially Announced For Apple Vision Pro

visionOS 2 introduces a number of new features and improvements across the operating system.

Main camera accessvisionOS 2Passthrough in-screen capture

• Apple Neural Engine access
• Barcode and QR code scanning
• Object tracking parameter adjustment
• Increased performance headroom
• Apple makes it clear that these features can only be used “for use in a business setting” and apps using them cannot be distributed on the App Store. These Enterprise APIs include:
• Main camera access

Passthrough in-screen capture

Apple Neural Engine accessPico 4 EnterpriseBarcode and QR code scanningbuilt-in ArUco fiducial marker trackingObject tracking parameter adjustment