A most recent report by The Information suggests that Apple is working on a Mixed Reality headset. And that headset is different; it’s not just the VR or AR; it is a mixed-reality device, which would be mostly VR but including some real-world elements. It got two 8K displays and cost $3000, which instantly makes someone speechless, but that’s the price anyway.
Apple is already busy in the research and development of fully autonomous Apple Car. Apple is also working on an AR/VR headset for a long time. It’s been involved in the augmented reality (AR) aspect for its “Apple Glass.”
An anonymous source “with direct knowledge” of the Apple headset revealed a few key details about it. “The Apple mixed-reality headset equips with more than a dozen cameras. They track hand movements and showing a video of the real world to people wearing it. Along with ultra-high-resolution 8K displays and advanced technology for tracking eye-tracking technology.”
The source also adds, “The inclusion of two 8K displays in the headset would make its picture quality far higher than that of other consumer headsets. And even the majority of high-end televisions, which cost thousands of dollars at 8K resolution. Apple has worked for years on a technology that uses eye-tracking to fully render only parts of the display where the user is looking. That would let the headset show lower-quality graphics in the user’s peripheral vision and reduce the device’s computing needs.
Price
According to the person with direct knowledge talked about the price saying, “Among the biggest risks is the price of the device, which is likely to cost significantly more than the $300 to $1,000 for existing VR headsets from Facebook’s Oculus and others. Last year, Apple internally discussed pricing the product around $3,000, more than the starting price of the company’s high-end laptops but around the $3,500 that Microsoft charges for its mixed-reality headset, HoloLens.”
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