While WWDC 2026 was dominated by Siri AI and Apple Intelligence, Apple also showed an exciting glimpse of how its new AI capabilities will work in visionOS on Apple Vision Pro.
The key upgrade is a deeper integration of Siri AI with visual intelligence directly into the Vision Pro interface. In the demo, Apple showed a new floating Siri “orb” that lives inside the visionOS UI. Instead of just talking to Siri in abstract commands, you literally look at this orb and ask questions about what you’re seeing in your environment.
Because Vision Pro blends your real-world view with digital windows, Siri AI can now tap into that visual context. Think of it as “circle to search,” but driven by your eyes instead of your finger. You look at something in your field of view—an object, a screen, a document, or a window—and then ask Siri about it. Siri AI uses Apple Intelligence to interpret that visual scene and respond intelligently based on what’s on screen and what’s around you.
This brings the same visual intelligence Apple is building into the iPhone camera—recognizing food, locations, bills, and objects—into a fully immersive spatial computing environment. On Vision Pro, that means asking questions about what you’re currently working on, the content in a floating app window, or something in the real world you’re looking at, and getting context-aware answers without breaking your focus.
In short, the big visionOS story from WWDC 2026 isn’t a long list of new apps or UI changes; it’s that Vision Pro becomes a first-class Siri AI device. With the new floating orb and visual intelligence, Vision Pro starts to feel less like just a spatial display and more like a wearable, always-available AI assistant that understands both your apps and your surroundings.
