Here’s Apple Vision Pro’s new Jupiter Environment

Apple revealed a new Environment for Apple Vision Pro, Jupiter, during WWDC25. With today’s release of the visionOS 26 Release Candidate, we finally have our first look at it. One of Apple Vision Pro‘s most compelling features is Environments, which are expansive, photorealistic, 3D scenes of beautiful locations around the world, or even outside of it. Alongside visionOS 26, releasing on September 15th, is a new Jupiter Environment. Here is how Apple describes it: This is the view from Amalthea, one of Jupiter’s inner moons. Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet in our solar system, with a day that is only 10 hours long. Select from the times of day to see how lighting and moon alignments shift over time. This Environment is truly stunning: Apple Vision Pro’s first real-time Environment For most Environments, you can switch between a daytime scene and an evening or nighttime scene. For Jupiter, however, you can choose any time of day: You can choose between five presets or slide the grabber to any poison in Jupiter’s 10-hour day. By default, the Environment changes in real-time, but you can choose to speed it up or pause it: Even at nighttime, where there is no light from the Sun, the Jupiter Environment offers a stunning (and relaxing) view. It’s hard to capture in screenshots, but there is a beautiful galaxy facing behind you, and stars all above and around you. It looks much better when viewing on Apple Vision Pro, but here’s an idea of how it looks: If you’d like to see the Jupiter Environment in video form, here’s a quick screen recording showing off the different times of day: In order to make room for Jupiter on the Environments page, the Morning Light Environment was removed. Additionally, when updating my Apple Vision Pro to the visionOS 26 Release Candidate, I noticed that an update for the Moon Environment was available. I was not able to notice any differences after updating though. Final thoughts This new Jupiter Environment truly is stunning. The real-time environment feature is something I really wish Apple would bring to the other Environments, because they can start to look stale after a while. It also helps give you a sense of time, something that is easily lost when you are working in a static Environment like Lake Vrangla. My favorite Apple accessories: