Apple’s first mixed reality headset is coming as early as next year and will be “pricey,” according to Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
Apple is planning to unleash its own pricey device with advanced chips, displays, sensors and avatar-based features as early as next year.
All this adds fuel to Apple’s feud with Meta. Between the Meta watch and dueling headsets — as well as the war of words around privacy and app-store policies between Cook and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg — the clash between the companies could be a major tech story of 2022.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s anticipated augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headset will need to be wirelessly tethered to a iPhone or iPad for the most advanced features, according to a report last month from The Information.
Back in March 2019, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that Apple’s AR glasses (which is planned to follow the larger AR/VR headset described above) will essentially act as a display with the actual computing, rendering, internet connectivity, and location services coming from the users’ iPhone.
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