“Given the amount of money Apple is spending on research and development these days, it’s almost certainly working on something big. There are reports and rumors that Apple has started exploring and perhaps is even working on some sort of virtual reality experience,” Mike Murphy writes for Quartz. “But Apple works on a lot of things that aren’t about to hit the market—like a car—and if current consumer VR devices are anything to go by, it’s highly unlikely that Apple will be releasing a VR system anytime soon.”
“Virtual reality is simply too much of a hassle right now,” Murphy writes, “Even for all the supposed problems Apple has had recently with software design… the company would almost certainly never put its customers through the current process required to use VR.”
“Offering an underpowered headset, or updating its computer line to support a headset as powerful as a Vive or Rift don’t seem like options for Apple,” Murphy writes, “And it’s unlikely Apple will be able to produce a headset that’s significantly less fiddly to set up than its competitors’. Right now, VR is just as stodgy and user-unfriendly as those PCs in the old Mac ads.”
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MacDailyNews Take: VR certainly needs a lot more work before it’s ready for primetime – meaning the time when Apple Inc. begins releasing VR products. Everything on the market now is just half-baked tomfoolery.