A high end/developer focused set of goggles as well as consumer focused AR glasses.
>Apple's AR/VR headset will be followed by an augmented reality product, which rumors have been calling the Apple Glasses. The Apple Glasses will be more of an everyday wearable product than the headset, as they will resemble traditional glasses.
Something tells me Apple doesn't consider Oculus quest much of a competitor. The Quest is 99.99% used for gaming. Essentially nothing else. I doubt gaming will even be much of a focus for the Apple headset.
Besides, what other stahndslone headset is being shipped in any real volume but the quest? Meta has hinted at future AR updates to the quest so that should compete even more with apples goals.
It is the Google way. If it doesn't take off for the moon in a short time and become self sustaining they let it die. Google basically has the parenting instincts of a fish with millions of eggs.
Given their history we can expect: nice form factor, minimal features, easy to use, minimal specs, priced higher than what the specs would suggest
So this article is saying two M1 Pro CPUs. Ok, let's say that's sufficient. The batteries required to power two M1s are going to be pretty big. Not sure anyone is going to want all that weight (and heat!) on their head.
Maybe 5 years from now processing speeds and power consumption will be sufficient.
Surely any AR from Apple should be the Reality Distortion Filter. :)
I don't mind cheaper headsets as impulse purchases to just wait for better games and experiences to come out. But at this price I need to feel like I'm missing something and don't feel that way, am I missing something?
He also has been saying there is some insane tech partnership with the NFL to bring an immersive viewing experience to the headset.
For a family it requires 4x of these at $8,000
Or just the additional form of entertainment alongside existing home entertainment
The "power pack" is the power bank sized thing with the battery and a smartphone caliber motherboard (ARM application processor and a mobile GPU).
There are around half a dozen cameras on the headset, and the GPU is too taxed generating content visuals to do real-time localization and eye tracking. Even if you had enough bandwidth to get all the frames down the cable, it would still be a difficult problem to solve on the GPU while still meeting latency requirements. So instead, there's a dedicated "vision processor" on the headset that processes all of the camera inputs and sends the localization results to the GPU. This vision processor chip gets quite hot.
The projectors themselves can also get pretty hot, especially if you need to crank the brightness up. Difractive optics have a lot of losses, unfortunately...
[0] I worked on parts of ML1 at Magic Leap, but no longer work there.
if it looks like a giant face mask like the VIVE or the other one from facebook, then it'll flop, meaning it will stay as a niche market
VR/AR should be an evolution of glasses, not a downgrade, not something else
Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R95olc9iQE4
I'd buy this instantly, and i don't even wear glasses
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Isee?
That sounds dystopian.
I would rather it just be called Apple VR since it is nowhere near being truly "real".
Regardless, there is 0% chance they call it iSight.
New product category? Not sure, but I hope it has been a while.
Lately they've been using Air prefix, so maybe LightSpecs?
Even thinking about it now makes me feel unwell.
Try a high end headset, like the Valve Index, make sure your setup never glitches, and never move in a way that your body is not (eg walk and look around your move, do not run or strafe with a joystick).
The above should generally minimize any nausea for those with poor VR legs (like me).
I also think this will get markedly better over the next 2-3 gens as headsets improve.
VR triggers migraines for me. Playing games on PSVR that is. I think there's some hope for you (potentially) that better tech will make you less nauseous.
For me, it's highly unlikely that new tech will bring any improvements as I'd think it's the bright light shining right into my retina (when I'd love nothing more than a e-ink monitor without any backlight for my daily work).
Nevertheless, I'm keen to try. I'm super keen on something like glasses, with some AR displayed on top of the glass rather than the light shining into my eyes.
