What are your most anticipated XR products?
80% of people who follow the XR industry will answer: Apple AR glasses.
Apple has always been a benchmark that many companies cannot catch up with in the entire technology industry, and its A series chips and M series chips are beyond the reach of friends. The recently launched M1 Ultra has fully packed up the performance and has been loved by many fruit fans.
As such a powerful enterprise, XR has been on fire for so many years, why has it not yet launched related hardware equipment? In fact, Apple has been researching and developing, through various indications that Apple AR glasses seem to be really coming.
Sina VR has sorted out the breaking information about Apple AR glasses, but with more and more breaking information, Sina VR once again sorted it out for everyone, the information is true or false everyone analyzes as appropriate, and Sina VR does not make too many evaluations.
In February 2022, DigiTimes reported that Apple's supply chain reported that Apple had completed the second phase of its AR/VR headset engineering verification test (EVT2) to ensure that the prototype device met Apple's design goals and specifications, while expecting Q3 to enter mass production and is expected to be available by the end of this year.
According to a report by TrendForce, the long-rumored Apple AR/VR headset may offer a monthly subscription service. Apple's first AR headset had been predicted at $1,000, $2,000 or $3,000. However, analysts at Trendforce are now speculating that it will require an additional monthly subscription to be able to use it.
App Store upload logs and Apple's open source code leaked "realityOS" information, from the exposure, realityOS may be an AR/VR operating system, will be installed in Apple's rumored mixed reality headset. In addition, the word simulator appears in the code, but Apple has removed the commit.
Foreign media quoted people familiar with Apple's plan as saying that the device was originally scheduled to be announced during WWDC in June 2022, and then officially released later this year. However, recent development issues may have forced Apple to postpone the launch of vr/AR headsets.
According to display analyst Ross Young, Apple expects the AR/VR headset to be launched in 2022, which will be equipped with three OLED displays, and the configuration of the display will include two micro OLED displays and an AMOLED panel, and Sony will provide the micro OLED displays that Apple will use.
@Mobile chip expert, a well-known chip supply chain expert, said that the long-rumored Apple AR/VR headset will be equipped with a derivative version of the M2 chip codenamed Staten, plus a coprocessor Bora chip. The two chips are foundry by TSMC and are expected to be mass-produced at the end of the fourth quarter of 2022.
According to a report by Kuo Ming-chi, the rumored glasses that Apple will launch soon weigh 300-400 grams, and the second generation will be lighter.
According to a report by Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingxi, 1, gesture control and object detection are the key human-machine interface design of Apple AR/MR headsets. Apple's AR/MR headsets are equipped with more 3D sensing modules than the iPhone, and the structured light specifications have been significantly upgraded. 2. Steady And Lumentum benefit from Apple AR/MR headsets equipped with more and higher-spec 3D sensing modules, making them the key winners of the innovative human-machine interface of the metacosm. 3. The innovative human-machine interface of the headset must integrate many technologies.
The above is the breaking information about Apple AR glasses, and the specific true and false cannot be verified.
However, this week Apple filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a pair of tactile gloves. The patent application covers a device that accurately simulates user touch in an augmented reality, virtual reality, or mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) environment to detect the "roughness and ripple" of an object.
The background description of the Apples USPTO application suggests that a certain degree of roughness may make it easier to grasp the object when grasping it, but being too rough can cause pain and difficulty grasping the object. Apple's Simulation Surface Mass technology also enhances the interaction between virtual objects, a platform that realistically reproduces behavior between virtual objects, such as balloons popping off rough surfaces.
In addition, the Mock Object behavior reproduces the tip of a virtual pen, pencil, or brush at a variety of surface qualities. Apple uses self-hybrid interferometry (SMI) sensing technology that enables users to perceive the surface mass of virtual objects in an MR environment.
The patent application for haptic gloves shows that Apple has at least been developing in related directions, and gloves are excellent accessories for use with AR/VR. In the future, Apple AR glasses may bring more experiences, and they are completely different from the AR glasses currently on the market.
Apple AR glasses are not only the products that everyone is looking forward to, but also the products that are pinned on hope, and everyone hopes to see the differences brought by Apple AR glasses, and Apple AR glasses may lead the development of the entire industry. The AR market has been expanding in the B-end market in recent years, but the C-end market is still dominated by movies, and it is hoped that the emergence of Apple can break this situation.
In addition, Apple AR glasses are becoming more and more mature, and the release time will be closer and closer, when Apple AR glasses may become a new generation of products that everyone admires. As for whether it can replace the iPhone, it may take a long time.
At present, the development of haptic gloves is also Meta and other companies, the future AR/VR experience will be more realistic, now the headset to achieve the immersive picture, the future of haptic gloves, somatosensory vests, etc. will help users to achieve immersive experience.
With Apple's continuous breakthroughs in technology, we are looking forward to the launch of Apple's AR glasses, and AR/VR will surely become a new generation of computing platforms in the future.