There have been multiple rumors that Apple's VR/AR headset will have its own app store and access to third-party apps. However, according to a new report from The Information (opens in new tab), Apple wants to give "people who don't know computer code" the ability to create their own apps using the power of Siri.

According to the same report, health and wellness is an important area for Apple's headset; The Information cites four people who claim to have been involved in the development of the headset, which is expected to be called Apple Reality Pro.

As The Information also reports, health and wellness is a major focus for Apple's new headset.

"According to a person familiar with Apple's headset content strategy, Apple executives are emphasizing health and wellness, including suggestions for AR apps to aid meditation and exercise. One early AR demo allowed users to sit in a Zen garden, the four said.

Another early demo for Apple executives merged its fantasy environment with the real world, allowing users to walk through Dr. Seuss's book "Oh, the Places You'll Go," according to three people familiar with it. [For example, our fitness Sam Hopes tried out the Tripp meditation app for the headset, which combines immersive VR gaming with a fascinating and engaging worldview. There are also several boxing apps for fitness, such as Liteboxer VR.

Apparently Siri-based systems will be "an easy way for users to build their own augmented reality apps and publish them to the App Store."

Siri will reportedly allow users to build things based on real world objects. This includes the ability to "scan real-world objects, import them into the headset, and make them behave exactly as they do in reality, with an accurate representation in 3D. In other words, there is no hassle of designing virtual objects from scratch.

While this sounds rather outlandish at first, it is not necessarily so: the Reality Pro headset is expected to include a vast number of cameras and sensors that will be able to scan and detect objects in the real world so that the AR features can function properly. Meta, currently the largest consumer VR and AR headset company, also allows users to build Horizon Worlds 3D environments without coding.

Products like Reality Pro live or die by app support. Especially if there are more established competitors that can offer what the user wants.

As we can see from Windows Phone, it offered a unique and useful interface, but it did not have the same level of app support as Android or iPhone. No matter how good these phones were, the fact that they could not use services like YouTube or Snapchat without relying on sketchy-looking third-party apps meant that competitors had a significant advantage.

Giving users the opportunity to create their own apps using the Apple headset's unique features would be a huge boost for Reality Pro. It doesn't matter if the majority of those apps are incredibly simple, and the success of Apple's headset means that it won't necessarily be at the mercy of developers.

Furthermore, as we have seen in the PC game modding community, people can be incredibly creative when given access to the right tools. So it will be very interesting to see what people come up with, especially if Apple provides an easy approval process for publishing those apps in the App Store.

The Apple Reality Pro is said to be available as early as March of this year and later this year. However, current reports indicate that the headset will be priced at $3,000, which may not be affordable to the majority of casual users. We will keep you posted as soon as we have more information on the headset.