Wesley Hilliard
Lake Vrangla is a foggy new environment available in visionOS, beta or not, and is found near Oslo, Norway, in the real world.
Apple launched the Apple Vision Pro in February 2024, and a slow trickle of updates and media followed. The reveal of visionOS 2 during WWDC showed that some welcome improvements were coming, as well as new environments.
Bora Bora debuted in the first visionOS 2 beta, and now we have Lake Vrangla. However, it arrived as a server-side push from Apple to all Apple Vision Pro users, so visionOS 2 is not required.
It's another lake environment like Mount Hood but with an island in the water. The environment is less grandiose than some of the others thanks to the muted, foggy environment — which might serve a purpose for focus.
The night version of Lake Vrangla is more of a dusk setting with beautiful orange and blues peeking through a sunset. The night mode is where the environment's beauty shines as you sit in the still, quiet night of Norway.
The lake works similarly to the one in Mount Hood. Set the theater mode at night, and any compatible video will zoom out to a huge screen reflecting into the water below.
With this release, the environments page is now full. There are no other "coming soon" environments or a second page.
It could be some time before Apple adds more environments. Perhaps a later point update in visionOS 2, which is expected to launch in September alongside iOS 18 and the others.
William Gallagher
Sponsored Content
Malcolm Owen
Mike Wuerthele and Malcolm Owen
Andrew Orr
2 Comments
Can't exactly afford a Vision Pro at $5000 CAD, but I can definitely see myself using these environments to escape the surrounding world and get some work done on my Mac.
When you say "All Vision Pro users" you missed off the "US only" part :'(
No sign of it in the UK, but then there's no sign of Marvel's What If, or any of the newly announced immersive content either.