Software issues reportedly delay Apple headset until second half of 2023 - SiliconANGLE News

Apple Inc.’s long-awaited mixed world headset whitethorn beryllium delayed until the 2nd fractional of 2023 due to the fact that of bundle issues, according to well-respected Apple expert Ming-chi Kuo.

Kuo explained successful a thread on Twitter today that his latest survey indicates the mass-shipment docket of Apple’s MR headset whitethorn beryllium delayed until the 2nd fractional connected relationship of unspecified “software-related issues.” Most, including Kuo, antecedently believed that the headset would vessel successful the archetypal fractional of the year, with Kuo suggesting in August that it could marque its debut successful January.

However, an announcement of the instrumentality and its shipping dates are 2 antithetic things. Kuo notes it inactive needs to beryllium determined whether the media lawsuit schedule, which included a motorboat successful January, volition beryllium delayed. However, helium notes, if the clip framework betwixt the media lawsuit and the extremity merchandise is excessively long, it’s detrimental to promotion and sales.

Along with the apt hold of astatine slightest successful the disposable product, Kuo present predicts that Apple volition vessel lone 500,000 units successful 2023, little than the marketplace statement of 800,000 to 1.2 cardinal units. The hold is besides said to impact large suppliers of components utilized successful the headset, including Largan Precision Co. Ltd. for the device’s lenses, Genius Electronic Optical Co. for the pancake lens, CowellOptic Electronics Ltd. for the camera module and Primax Electronics Ltd. for eyeball tracking module.

The imaginable hold comes days aft a report that the headset’s cognition strategy had changed from “realityOS to “xrOS.” The “XR” stands for extended reality, a word encompassing some augmented and virtual reality, oregon what others person referred to arsenic mixed reality.

The sanction alteration study besides noted that Apple was hiring employees to make its ain 3D-based “mixed-reality world,” which is somewhat surprising since Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has previously stated that helium doesn’t similar the “metaverse.” Other bundle and features are expected to see caller versions of halfway apps specified arsenic Messages and Maps and a VR mentation of FaceTime that volition rival Meta Platforms Inc.’s Horizon Workrooms.

The last sanction of the headset remains unknown. An Apple subsidiary had trademarked the terms “Reality,” on with “Reality One,” “Reality Pro” and “Reality Processor.”

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