Navi is a Vision Pro app that adds subtitles and live translations to the real world. It’s the kind of thing we’re used to seeing in sci-fi movies, but now it’s all the way IRL.
Apple Vision Pro Review – Why Does This EXIST?
You’re immersed in your own creepy hybrid digital/analog world, and someone’s talking to you. Maybe you’re deaf, or maybe you and the speaker don’t share a common language. With Navi, you can place a bubble next to the speaker and see live subtitles and translations as they speak. You probably won’t be wearing this thing to the market or bazaar on your next vacation, but Navi shows the potential of Apple’s spatial computing for things beyond watching movies on the plane.
"Most developers haven't had much time with the Apple Vision Pro. I think the interaction and capabilities are so new that it will take some time before developers can use it and wear it in their daily lives. That will probably bring about a lot of ideas that can only be created with the native visionOS tooling," Navi developer Jordi Bruin told Lifewire via email.
It is clear that the Vision Pro is a public prototype. In practice, it is only for home or office use, it has a battery that you have to find in your pocket, it is big, heavy, it shuts you off from the world and it only works for a few hours between charges.
