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Apple Mixed-Reality Headset on Schedule for Early 2023, Lighter Second-Gen Version With Call Capabilities Coming in 2024
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Ugh, that render they keep using makes me cringe. If this is going to be ‘mixed reality’, you’ll need to be able to see through it.
It's been mentioned in earlier articles that it may utilise cameras for the see-through effect
I'll definitely buy one. I'm interested to see where Apple goes with this technology.
Not at all. Just to pick one out of a hat - you could use this tech in foreign countries to auto-translate all the text you see, on signs for example. That would be awesome and incredibly useful.
I hope this thing will allow for 3D movies. Not a gamer but hoping they can do cool things with movies on this thing.
I think this product is more difficult to fit than the smartphone. The smartphone is the natural evolution of the traditional cell phone.
But these are glasses that put you in an unreal world, in the metaverse. There is nothing that exists today similar (VR glasses have existed for years, but very minority).
I think that if people pay thousands of euros or dollars in eye surgeries to remove their glasses, I don't know if these products, both VR and AR, are going to be successful. Because honestly, I don't see people spending all day with VR glasses working in the metaverse.
The AR glasses, through which, you see an expanded information of reality, I see them as a somewhat more feasible option, but I still doubt their mass success because of what I said, as a general rule, people do not like to wear glasses, and actually pay to take them off.
So who is going to want to spend hours with glasses on to be in a world that does not exist, for tasks that are not merely recreational? Well, I don't know, but to me it is something that brings me absolutely nothing, even in a world in which teleworking prevailed, which, at least in Europe, is becoming less and less important, because we are forced to be more face-to-face again.
That’s what I meant when I said this model would probably not be desirable to that many people. I believe this is a test bed for the software implementation of Augmented Reality, similar to how the implementation on iPhone and iPad is mostly as a test bed. That way they can effectively develop the software “in the real world” while they work on miniaturizing the hardware. The difference between testing Augmented Reality on iPhone and iPad and these supposed goggles if mostly the method of interaction. They can test more effectively by using a device that more closely resembles the form factor they’re going for.
So 2024 till I get one. Cool.
I'll stick with my Quest 2 in the meantime, especially now that the Facebook account requirement is going away next month PRAISE GOD
I'll stick with my Quest 2 in the meantime, especially now that the Facebook account requirement is going away next month PRAISE GOD
Seeing how there is a significant difference between want and need... I want this.😁
Purely for entertainment purposes, of course. VR games. Hail yeah.🙂 Paying through the nose. Suddenly, VR games ain't that impressive anymore.😐
Me. Virtual monitors at my desk or even as I work on my couch, videos playing on the side as I do my home chores… I see several compelling use cases. More so if they can make fashionably acceptable glasses for wearing out in public.
When were the very first Apple headset rumours coming out 2014??? It would be interesting to know the length of the development cycle. I am thinking though the length of time and the product we will get will not be as outstanding as we think imo
Assuming this launches. Like every 1st get apple product, it will be the slowest and crappiest version of that product
Instead of seeing the TV through it, it will just say "OBEY"
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It takes a deeper understanding of the true potential of the metaverse to really understand how powerful of a device this will be. Keep in mind, that Apple believes this type of technology will replace the iPhone within the next decade.