Apple indefinitely postpones launch of AR glasses - Bloomberg News - Reuters

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has postponed the motorboat of its lightweight augmented-reality glasses indefinitely owed to method challenges, but is inactive readying to unveil its archetypal mixed-reality headset this year, Bloomberg News reported connected Tuesday.

The iPhone maker's mixed-reality headset - which combines some augmented and virtual world - is acceptable to motorboat successful this year's outpouring event, Bloomberg said, adding that the instrumentality volition outgo astir $3,000.

Apple's mixed-reality instrumentality would vie with the likes of Meta Platforms' (META.O) Quest Pro virtual and mixed-reality headset, which it launched precocious past year for $1,500, fractional of the Apple device's reported price.

The Cupertino, California-based institution present plans to absorption connected lowering the terms of the follow-up mentation of its mixed-reality device, expected arsenic soon arsenic 2024 oregon aboriginal 2025, alternatively of moving connected the AR glasses, according to the report.

Apple volition purpose to bash truthful by utilizing chips connected par with those successful the iPhone alternatively than components recovered successful higher-end Mac computers.

Apple did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment.

The Information website first reported Apple's plans to unveil a cheaper mixed-reality headset connected Tuesday.

earlier successful the day, the iPhone shaper unveiled MacBooks powered by its caller and faster M2 Pro and M2 Max chips successful a astonishment motorboat weeks up of its accustomed schedule.

Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh and Shubham Kalia successful Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman

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