Apple reportedly set to announce 'Reality Pro' VR headset this spring and will ship it in the fall - CNBC

Apple volition unveil its highly anticipated mixed-reality headset this spring, with user deliveries opening successful autumn 2023, Bloomberg precocious reported.

The study comes aft last week's comments from Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo, who reported that bundle improvement and mechanical constituent issues had forced pome to hold shipment to the second fractional of 2023. Kuo besides anticipated that Apple would denote its headset successful the outpouring oregon astatine Apple's developer lawsuit successful June.

Bloomberg said connected Sunday that Apple's anticipated headset would tally connected a caller operating system, dubbed xrOS, and that Apple had already granted a prime radical of bundle developers entree to the platform. The headset volition beryllium called Reality Pro, according to the report. Apple uses the "Pro" appendage crossed its higher-end, power-user focused merchandise lines.

Apple has already made a foray into mixed-, virtual-, and augmented-reality efforts connected iOS and iPadOS, its iPhone and iPad operating systems. Apple's bundle enables companies and developers to fto users bash thing from trying connected glasses to exemplary furnishings purchases successful their idiosyncratic spaces.

But a prospective headset from Apple would people an entranceway into a caller merchandise enactment that would enactment Apple successful nonstop contention with Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, which has spent billions of dollars to the chagrin of investors gathering retired what Zuckerberg has dubbed the metaverse.

Apple's mixed-reality offering volition disagree from Meta's Quest line, which is simply a axenic virtual-reality product. Mixed world augments a user's environment, alternatively than replacing it wholly with a computer-generated view.

The study said Apple has enactment astir of its efforts connected the headset and that galore of Apple's different products, similar its MacBooks, Watch, TV and iPads volition get comparatively insignificant updates this twelvemonth arsenic a result.

Apple did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.