“In a note to clients Monday night, Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster laid out a provocative theory about what Apple’s growing cadre of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experts might be up to,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reprots for Fortune.
As a starting point, we expect in the next two years Apple will add VR to the MFi Program (Made for iPhone), which should make it easier for third parties to build virtual reality headsets powered by the iPhone, much like Samsung’s Gear VR today. In the next 5-10 years, we expect Apple to release a mixed reality headset with the long term goal (15+ years) of replacing the iPhone. — Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster
“As Munster sees it,” P.E.D. reports, “screens as we know them today will slowly disappear and be replaced by holograms seamlessly overlaid with the real world through eyeglasses that cost $500 to $800, same as today’s iPhones.”
We believe 10 years from now Generation Z will find reality inefficient. Generation Z will see the benefits of mixed reality headsets that augment the world with real-time information as they need it and in their field of view, without needing to look at one piece of information at a time on a smartphone. — Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster
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MacDailyNews Take: Do not discount. We’re been running into spots where reality is far less efficient than AR for quite some time now.