Gurman: Apple AR/VR headset to be announced in the spring, before WWDC - 9to5Mac

In the latest variation of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple intends to denote its long-awaited AR/VR headset merchandise successful the spring, earlier WWDC successful June. The instrumentality would spell connected merchantability aboriginal successful the autumn of 2023, matching expert Ming-Chi Kuo’s timeline.

Gurman says prototype hardware has already been seeded to a tiny fig of developers for testing. However, helium says the instrumentality is acold from finished and Apple inactive has to enactment retired respective ‘kinks’ successful the hardware and software.

Gurman says that erstwhile reporting that the instrumentality was primitively acceptable to beryllium unveiled successful January (this month) was close — but that timeline slipped.

With an instauration to the satellite successful the spring, Apple would past apt travel up with elaborate resources and tooling for developers astatine the WWDC league successful June.

To squash each the outstanding bugs and todo’s, Gurman says Apple has “roped successful resources” from different departments. This means immoderate different projects wrong the institution person suffered delays arsenic a result.

Gurman does not expect large changes for AirPods and Apple Watch lines. The Mac roadmap includes an Apple Silicon Mac Pro and M2 spec bumps for the MacBook Pro.

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