Apple has a key advantage over Meta in augmented reality - AppleInsider

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As Apple prepares to merchandise a mixed-reality device, Meta's pb successful the virtual world marketplace volition illness rapidly unless it tin physique an ecosystem.

In 2021, Meta partnered with Ray-Ban to merchandise a acceptable of astute glasses called Ray-Ban Stories. They tin seizure photos, playback audio, instrumentality telephone calls, and execute different basal tasks.

Meta ran into immoderate problems erstwhile processing the glasses, according to a caller report from The Information. Before the merchandise launched, the squad had spent months trying to marque them enactment amended with the iPhone.

They wanted photos taken by the glasses to automatically download to a user's iPhone without needing them to unfastened Meta's app. But the automatic download wouldn't enactment erstwhile the iPhone was inactive.

Unlike Google and Apple, which are rumored to motorboat AR products, Meta doesn't manufacture a smartphone. Initially, an AR headset whitethorn request to brace with a smartphone to execute analyzable computations.

Sources accidental Meta has been trying to physique devices that could brace with AR glasses, specified arsenic a smartphone-shaped instrumentality that could power the glasses oregon springiness them computing power. But the downside is requiring radical to transportation an other instrumentality successful their pouch successful summation to the smartphone that they apt already have.

Meta besides tried — unsuccessfully — to make a smartwatch that could brace with its AR glasses. But the squad has faced problems with plan and powerfulness and has scrapped 3 unreleased smartwatches.

Apple produces iPhones and Apple Watches that could brace with its rumored AR glasses, giving the institution a sizeable vantage implicit Meta, astatine slightest until, oregon unless, Meta tin make glasses that person capable computing powerfulness to enactment without a smartphone oregon smartwatch.

Apple besides creates operating systems that enactment connected its devices, and is building a caller 1 for its AR headset. Meta is besides lacking successful this area, abandoning a task to make a customized operating strategy successful 2021. It besides has to trust connected different companies for chips to powerfulness its headset.

As much companies participate the AR and VR spaces, Meta volition request to lick these problems if it wants to enactment successful the pb and nutrient a headset that radical tin comfortably deterioration for hours astatine a clip alternatively of a bulky product.