iEyes An Apple AR wearable device is reportedly on track for 2020
0iEyes An Apple AR wearable device is reportedly on track for 2020.
It’s no secret that Apple is high on augmented reality. Tim Cook has been touting the new tech as the next big revolution even before Apple released ARKit for iOS at WWDC in June. But a new report suggests its ambitions go far beyond the iPhone.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is aiming to launch an AR wearable in 2019, with plans to start shipping in 2020. Sources tell the publication that the device will have its own display and run on a new chip and operating system, unlike Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s Daydream headsets, both of which rely on phones to do the heavy lifting. The $200 Oculus Go will be a standalone device, but it focuses on virtual reality, not augmented reality.
An AR headset would be a major expansion of Apple’s wearable platform, which thus far consists solely of Apple Watch. While the report doesn’t specify whether the new device would be larger than a standard pair of eyeglasses, but Cook recently told The Independent that current headsets on the market were not up to Apple’s lofty design standards: “Anything you would see on the market any time soon would not be something any of us would be satisfied with.”