Bloomberg indicates that Apple would have postponed its AR glasses indefinitely to push its projects in mixed reality, with a VR headset as soon as spring.
Apple’s mixed reality headset is expected to be the company’s next big new product. According to several sources, this headset must be unveiled as early as spring and WWDC to convince developers to adopt Apple’s new platform.
This headset, however, was only to be a first step in Apple’s grand plans. After its mixed reality headset in 2023, Apple was to offer much more advanced augmented reality glasses from 2024.
Journalist Mark Gurman for Bloomberg indicates that these have been postponed indefinitely. Instead, Apple would rather evolve its headphones.
A more accessible VR headset
According to the journalist, Apple would indeed prepare new versions of its mixed reality headset with lower manufacturing costs. A first new version could be ready as early as 2024 or early 2025.
Obviously, Apple realized that creating augmented reality glasses that were both lightweight and very technologically advanced was not an easy thing. Instead, the firm is now relying on a much better mastered technology, that which is now offered by Meta, Pico or soon the PlayStation VR 2.
An overpriced first helmet
While waiting for these new iterations, the headphones planned by Apple for the spring of 2023 would indeed be overpriced. According to Bloomberg, the helmet could be marketed at 3000 dollars, even more expensive than the Meta Quest Pro launched at 1800 euros in France.
To justify this price, it would benefit from two very high definition screens, more than 10 cameras and an Apple M2 chip capable of exceeding Qualcomm’s solutions in performance.
It now remains to wait for the first presentation of this major Apple project to better understand the firm’s strategy and what it can offer against Meta. We are particularly looking forward to discovering the rxOS or RealityOS system.
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