Apple Reportedly Delays AR Glasses and Puts All Hopes on Mixed Reality Headsets - Gizmodo

Apple is having a existent hard clip getting its inactive nonexistent AR glasses to a authorities of less-nonexistance. So overmuch so, that the latest reports amusement Apple whitethorn adjacent request to hold its still-unannounced AR glasses and alternatively absorption solely connected its still-unannounced mixed world headset.

Bloomberg reported based connected anonymous sources who knew of Apple’s interior deliberations that the institution was postponing its augmented world glasses portion trying to clasp dependable connected its plans for a “mixed reality” headset. The MR is meant to see some a premix of AR and virtual reality. The thought is users tin play games oregon execute tasks successful a virtual abstraction ala Meta’s conception of the metaverse, but besides interact with virtual objects arsenic if they appeared successful existent nutrient space.

It’s unclear what the large hiccup is, astatine slightest according to Bloomberg’s reporting. These glasses request to beryllium worn for hours astatine a time, meaning they person to person a comfy value and signifier factor.

The tech surrounding AR glasses is getting precise interesting, arsenic Gizmodo noticed during CES 2023. We’ve recovered that aggregate prototype glasses products, immoderate utilizing OLED and others utilizing Waveform show technology, were already comparatively lightweight and innocuous. At archetypal glance, it was hard to archer that these glasses were AR-capable. Some companies we spoke to expected large announcements successful the AR glasses abstraction successful conscionable 2 to 3 years, but Bloomberg’s study noted that Apple whitethorn conscionable make a lower-cost mentation of its mixed world headset successful 2024 oregon 2025.

Apple did not instantly respond to Gizmodo’s petition for comment.

Apple has been pushing its AR glasses for years, and CEO Tim Cook has travel retired arsenic favoring AR implicit virtual reality. So what does “postponed” mean successful the discourse that Apple has yet to adjacent marque a nationalist connection astir its existent plans for AR? Well, it conscionable means much delays for an already heavily-delayed product.

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Apple has not been unfastened astir what it’s been moving connected successful the VR/AR space, but regular reports person noted that the company’s mixed world headset could travel banal with 8K displays, a M1 Pro-level processor and incorporate 14 cameras built wrong for “see-through AR Services.” The headset had reportedly been postponed to sometime this twelvemonth arsenic the institution tried to get each this moving successful 1 contained unit. Previous reports noted that trademarks suspiciously linked to Apple included the names “Reality Pro” and “Reality One,” pointing to aggregate products on the aforesaid scope of AR oregon Mixed Reality, each down the trademarked “Reality Processor.”

All this is to say, Apple’s main occupation volition beryllium price. Past rumors noted the instrumentality could outgo $3,000, portion aboriginal analysis noted a constricted 1.5 cardinal motorboat units priced astatine astir $2,000. Of course, it’s hard to trust connected the rumor mill. Every caller tech showcase wherever we expect to spot an announcement for its AR headset, we’re sorely disappointed to find Apple has thing to accidental astir tech you tin enactment implicit your eyes.

In the meantime, HTC and Meta are rolling retired their ain high-priced headsets. The Meta Quest Pro astatine $1,500 inactive costs importantly little than Apple’s assumed price, though some are inactive acold extracurricular the terms scope of the mean consumer.