Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How Apple Will Reveal Its VR Headset”.
We are getting something completely new from Apple in 2023, apple is expected to unveil a headset that can do virtual reality and augmented reality. A new Apple gadget for your face, but there’s been a little hitch in the plans. A report came out this week from Apple analyst, Ming Chi, kuo that the headset may be delayed in shipments because of quote software related issues. What is going on with this headset, it’s been several years in development Reports, say: apple is unveiling this headset in just a few weeks as in January now, that could still very much happen. So you are going to start hearing more and more about all the things that this VR AR face.
Goggle product can do, but as the bus builds there’s one more thing here, we need to consider Apple may need to completely change its Playbook on how it reveals its newest Gadget to the world better than the laptop better than the smartphone. So, although nothing is official as usual, there have been some reports. We can stitch together that give us Clues on. What’S going on Apple is said to be working on multiple AR and VR headsets, perhaps something of a mixed reality where it can do both Bloomberg’s Mark German reports that one will be called Apple reality Pro it’s something they can probably go up against the quest Pro From meta Bloomberg reported that Apple trademarked, a few names like reality, processor reality Pro reality, one they like the word reality. There’S some photo renderings. Everyone keeps passing around of what it could look like based on documents, and it looks like ski goggles.
This drawing comes from the online publication. The information.com and its reporters have sources saying that this is going to be loaded with more than a dozen cameras for tracking hand, movements and seeing the world in front of you. So you can walk around and not run into things. It’S also got 8K resolution displays and eye tracking and some swappable bands that could have surround sound built in or extra battery power. You may even wear a little thimble thing on your finger to control it.
Now. All that said, it’s reported to be priced as much as three thousand dollars like the magic leap 2 or the hololens 2. Apple will have to do a lot of convincing on why anyone would need to drop three grand for this. Maybe that price won’t be so high, but all signs point to it being expensive. The quest Pro is just half that it’s fifteen hundred dollars, so let’s get into how Apple could launch something like this.
You got ta look at when Apple launched, entirely new types of products back in 2010, Steve Jobs revealed the iPad at its own January event, and it didn’t come out until April when the iPad was announced. We all understood how the iPhone worked and yet Apple still didn’t cram. This iPad reveal into another event, because it wanted to break down why you would want an iPad. What the apps could do a bit of hand holding here to really Pump It Up and Try its best to show you why it’s just not a big iPhone, even though it was a big iPhone fast forward two years and apple used a January event once again To explain how it was going to reinvent the textbook with interactive textbooks in the iBook store.
Yes, a young Bridget was there and we heard about how this product could really shape education. So now you’re, seeing the iPad make more sense in schools. You can even make your own textbooks, so Apple again is taking time with just one product that it really cared about giving it some love with a demonstration for an entire day, instead of shoving it into WWDC. Now, let’s go back to that. Vr headset! It’S gon na be a bit harder to unveil this than an iPad sure. Most people have heard of VR, or maybe they tried it at a mall if they haven’t already bought a headset, but how many people really tried augmented reality, besides playing Pokemon go from six years ago, I mean AR on the face now I’m a techie I play With Google Glass, I’ve tried Microsoft hololens, but what is Apple going to tell us that is better or different from these devices when most people don’t use this in their everyday lives, mixed reality is not people’s actual reality, and yet it’s not like apple can say: hey We’Re taking everything you love about VR and making it better, because not so many people have much to say about loving VR there’s only one person who can help me figure out this puzzle of what Apple will do.
We need to call up the one reporter who has been covering Apple for well over a decade and who has worn on his head. Every type of face Tech invented my friend, Mr Scott Stein, hey Scott, hey, Bridget. I need to talk about virtual reality with you, but in real reality are you free yeah? Let’S talk all right Scott, I need your help figuring out how, in the world apple, is going to announce this headset, because this does not seem like it’s going to be a typical Apple event, or maybe it will be because when you think about all the Apple Products that have been new they’ve tended to launch sort of with this long time frame. So I kind of think about things like the iPhone the iPad. The Apple watch they’ve announced these things, like sometimes six months in advance.
It’S like the Apple watch had a pre-event and then they had the actual launch event. I see that happening for this headset. The question is: are they gon na have like three events you know? Are they gon na have an event pre-wwdc then? Maybe they’re gon na have something at WWDC, which is their developer conference to go over all of the how this works and get people to understand it, and then some sort of fall launch and then the other question is: are they going to allow people to demo? It before it arrives Apple has never let people see its products before the launch of the product, but when it comes to something like a VR headset, all the VR headsets I’ve ever demoed have been shown in advance.
Same thing with ar Apple. Did that once with the homepod, they had a listening session for homepod at one WWDC ahead of launch. So maybe that’s like a preview of something that we might get here. I could also imagine there’s going to be a lot of talk about the software behind it. The operating system, because there’s going to be a whole Suite of how it’s going to work, do you think they’re going to dive into that yeah so especially WWDC. A good number of people have used VR, but most people don’t use it in their everyday lives. So a lot of people still find it weird and unknown, and almost no one in the everyday world is used in AR headset. So, if Apple’s going with a headset that blends that they kind of have to start from square one and and say what is this thing, why are we making it? What is this thing called? What do you do in it and then once you get through all of that, then you get into the wait. What apps does it run? How do you open your work projects? How do you get an app onto here like there’s all these other questions which then come after it? What has me the most curious, too, is think about Apple products, being something in your everyday life. These aren’t VR AR is not everyday life.
So I keep wondering how is Apple going to sell this to people when it’s so expensive and it might not be your actual reality every day. That is something I keep turning over in my head over and over to wonder how they’re going to do this um? I I think about maybe the Apple watch, in the sense that you know when they, when they launched the Apple watch, they found a few key features and they also said like well, it’s also a watch or you know it’s good for a couple of things. They need to find those couple of things that this is good for now. The one I keep thinking about is Fitness meta, which makes you know.
Facebook makes quests too that’s the one that they keep, making a big deal out of they’re, seeing traction and people are using it for workouts, I mean apple, has a fitness and health ecosystem. They also have their workouts. They have all the stuff to tap into technically. Vr can be a workout and they could probably do that a lot better than anyone else.
They could tap into their content they’re already. They already make yeah and maybe make it a better workout headset, but is that that doesn’t seem like enough? Like then you know is it about games? That’S could be a really expensive headset just for games. Is it about creative collaboration like um, I think about ilm and how they made the Mandalorian and a lot of companies doing 3D stuff, but is? Is that too Pro for Apple? You know is that, like a is that something they can sell to everybody, or are they going to call this a specific pro tool? I have to wait and see: do you think it’s gon na be January, so I think it. I think it could be like three things.
I think it would make a lot of sense to announce it soon, meaning like a January February, maybe give a few people. Demos, like I hope, I’d, be part of that, but you know, then you have WWDC where you unfold it a little more and then you have a fall launch, because if you don’t do that, if you wait too long, how are people going to know how to Develop for this thing and and know what to do with it, it’s a lot to to wrestle with. We don’t even know how you’re going to control things with it.
Will it have a game, controller or some sort of Rings or a watch or hand tracking yeah? You should use your mind, it’s a big, it’s a big mystery, but I do think it’s going to go from look at all the stuff out there. There are very similar playbooks AR and VR there aren’t that many Mysteries, the quest Pro, which has mixed reality and eye tracking. I feel like that’s the sort of stuff that Apple’s gon na go with, so that that type of tech is going to be Amplified glad. I have you here to help me with these questions. Thank you. You’Re welcome good to be eating an actual reality to talk. Yes, yeah you got, you got ta touch some grass well, while we’re talking about well talking about VR got to take in the non-pixelated trees. Come on come come and touch grass with me, yeah, okay, it feels good. This is very good haptics.
I like the I like the feedback. This feels it’s very realistic. Those apps are the key to the key to come down to what sort of apps are being developed for this thing, to help us understand the draw for how it could be different, or at least more than just another way to play games.
What will it take for you to say? Yes, I need an apple headset. I want to hear from you and if you have questions sound off in the comments, it may just be a question I can dive into to help. Give you answers in another video thanks for watching .