GoKawiilvisionOS 26.4 is available now for Apple Vision Pro users, here’s what’s new in the latest update.
Vision Pro gains foveated streaming and video podcast upgrades in visionOS 26.4
visionOS 26.4 is rolling out to Vision Pro owners, and its single biggest change is support for a new technology: ‘foveated streaming.’
Foveated streaming provides app developers new capabilities that weren’t possible before. From Apple’s developer documentation:
If you have an existing virtual reality game, experience, or application built for desktop computers or a cloud server, you can stream it to Apple Vision Pro with the Foveated Streaming framework. Foveated Streaming allows your endpoint to stream high quality content only where necessary based on information about the approximate region where the person is looking, ensuring performance. On Apple Vision Pro, you can also layer native spatial content over the streamed content. For example, a racing game can render the gauges in the interior of the car with RealityKit, and stream the processor-intensive outdoor environment from a remote computer to the device.
It may take some time for developers to add support. But during the visionOS 26.4 beta cycle, we’ve already seen plenty of excitement from the developer community.
Here are a few examples to check out:
Hopefully these early examples of foveated streaming in visionOS apps is only scratching the surface of what developers will enable moving forward.
Beyond foveated streaming support, another key visionOS 26.4 feature involves Apple Podcasts.
Apple Podcasts is getting a new, enhanced video podcast experience starting with the latest update.
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