Kuo: Apple AR headset to enter production in Christmas quarter, require iPhone to function

Following a November 2017 study from Bloomberg calling for an Apple augmented reality headset featuring a custom OS in addition to chips, a revered analyst thinks it volition motion into mass production inwards the 4th quarter of this twelvemonth ahead of launch inwards the minute quarter of 2020.

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, via Economic Daily News, wrote inwards today’s study to clients that a head-mounted augmented reality device would basically deed every bit a lightweight display requiring an iPhone to produce much of the heavy-lifting inwards damage of augmented reality computations, positioning, networking, location services in addition to thus forth.

Curiously, Quanta Computer’s vice chairman told Nikei Assian Review a niggling to a greater extent than than a twelvemonth agone that an Apple headset was inwards the plant in addition to that it would convey a fully transparent lens thus users could encounter through in addition to interact amongst the environment.

A “headset-like” device from Apple would last coming no later on than 2019, he added.

Last April, CNET claimed that an Apple headset is a standalone device. That study called for a futuristic gizmo amongst dual 8K displays capable of both virtual in addition to augmented reality in addition to non requiring whatever form of tether to a Mac or an iPhone.

Apple belike did explore a standalone headset at or thus point.

The companionship mightiness convey concluded that packing everything within a head-mounted device, including the chips in addition to the batteries, resulted inwards a bulkier, heavier accessory that customers would belike non last willing to apparel for prolonged periods of time.

If that’s the case, in addition to thus an Apple headset may indeed launch every bit an iPhone accessory. But every bit shortly every bit the applied scientific discipline catches up, nosotros tin await a standalone edition akin to the Oculus Go.

Apple’s boss Tim Cook hinted every bit much inwards a recent interview, proverb that the applied scientific discipline itself doesn’t currently be to engineer such a production inwards a character way.

“We don’t give a rats most beingness first, nosotros desire to last best inwards creating people’s experiences,” he said. “Something that y'all would encounter out inwards the marketplace whatever fourth dimension shortly would non last something that whatever of us would last satisfied with.”

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