** Update of 06. September 2021, 16:04 clock: **
** The Technik-Magazin The Information (via mixed.de) wants to find out information about Apple's first, not yet officially announced VR / AR headset. The rumor after the mixed reality glasses does not work - as recently accepted - completely independently, but requires a wireless player like an iPhone, an iPad or an iMac.
The SOC developed before a year ago the video streaming, on a power-saving manner. By contrast, the majority of the graphics calculation should take over an externally set device. Suitable for this purpose, the chip in the Brile has less efficiency than in other current Apple devices. Furthermore, there were no KI calculations supported by Apple's Neural Engine, so mixed.de with reference to the report.
Update from February 11th 2021, 16:59 clock:
Hardly anyone is currently passing without a new rumor to Apple's possible VR and Ar-headsets: According to anonymous sources of the Japanese daily Nikkei (via golem.de) the orders TSMC is to work together with Apple, micro-OLED panels for AR devices to manufacture.
The particularly thin, lightweight and efficient screens from a secret Taiwanese laboratory could thus be used in Apple's Ar- and VR headsets, so the conversion of the newspaper. However, the development is still at an early stage, so that the series production of the panels could start with under one inch diameter only in a few years.
Update of 9 February 2021, 12:54: The rumor kitchen around Apple's possibly planned Premium VR headset with AR functions continues to beam. This time it is again Bloomberg, which has learned that the former hardware boss Dan Riccio has now personally taken over the management of development. The development of the first Apple headset should be challenged, which is why Apple Riccio attached to the project, explains Mixed.de.
Since his start at the company in 2008, Riccio has led the development of all important Apple products, such as that of iPod, iPad and iPhone or Mac models. According to Bloomberg, the rumor to resign Riccios as a hardware boss about a month ago as he announced to focus on something new in the company with all his time and energy he was uncannily enthusiastic.
Update of February 8 2021, 12:35:
The technical magazine The Information (via uploadvr.com) is now to have seen images of a late prototype of Apple's secret VR headset: on this similar to the independently functioning device of a ski glasses with lightweight interchangeable fabric head tapes, which a spatial Have integrated audio solution. The price is 3,000 dollars and two screens with 8K resolution are installed - including eye tracking and foveated rendering (only the small area in the focus of the eye is calculated by the graphics chip with high resolution).
About twelve cameras could be used for inside-out tracking, the insertion of the outside world or the planned hand tracking (possibly with a patch thimble), so the magazine. As always such rumors are to enjoy caution, especially since in this case they would represent a huge jump to current headsets (the Oculus Quest 2, for example, has only a resolution of 1,832 x 1.920 (ie something over 2k) per eye, but costs Even rough a tenth of the suspected price). Incidentally, a very early prototype of the Oculus Rift had a ski green format.
Original message from 21 January 2021, 15:46 clock:
Rumors About Apple's VR and / or Ar-headsets have existed for years - which about 1,000 employees should work on appropriate hardware. According to current anonymous insider reports on Bloomberg.com, a release of the VR headset with the project name N301 is probably already scheduled for 2022.
Although the concept of a stand-alone system with built-in battery is similar to the Oculus Quest 2, it should be a high-priced premium product, for which Apple deliberately had only a niche market. An exact price range has not been predicted yet, but Apple currently has a premium product e.g. a Mac Pro from 6,499,00 Euro on offer.
Apple itself did not want to leave a comment on the alleged plans, but according to the rumors, one of the most advanced and most powerful chips should be installed - including a display with much higher resolution than existing VR products. Some of the tested chips had already surpassed the performance of a M1 Mac processor.
An (for Apple Untypical) built-in fan is also planned. Since prototypes were too chunky, heavy and stressing for the neck when tests, you have taken to use a fabric enclosure - a procedure that was similarly used in the Google DayDream or first Oculus Quest. Currently the device is still in the stage of a late prototype. The not yet final plans could still change before the launch, so the sources.
Since it is primarily to be a VR device, it is intended for games, videos and communication. AR functions for the filing of computer graphics in the real world are relatively limited. The plans saw prior to selling only a device per day in one of the physical Apple stores. Bloomberg calculates that rough 500 stores would therefore only be little more than 180,000 units per year; The remaining distribution channels has not yet been included.
Furthermore, according to the rumors, the Group has an ar-headset called N421 in work, but only in a significantly early construction phase in which the underlying technique is being developed. This product is removed from a publication for years, although the company already averts to reveal it 2023.
In the case of the VR headset, Apple has reduced the space generally for glasses in the course of development to reduce the form factor and bring the headset closer to the head. For glasses, you are planning usable lenses with personal visual strengths in front of the screens. This in turn reduced its own legal problems in various global markets.
Apple's Design Chef Jony Ive made sure that original streaming plans have been discarded by a kind of hub box for glasses. Instead, everything should work independently, so much like the quest (2). The size would be for some current prototypes, for example, in the case of an Oculus Quest - which is not clear if Bloomberg says the first or smaller second model.
Similar to Facebook's self-employed VR systems, Apple also experiment with a hand tracking control, which is apparently to be capable of capturing the cameras of built-in inside-out tracking. This also belongs to a kind of virtual keyboard in the air. But it is still unclear whether this will be published for the first model of the VR headset. The own tailed Appstore is linked to the internally ROS system.
For the rumors, e.g. that Apple has just swallowed the company Netxvr last year, which specializes in recordings of large live events and concerts in VR. Bloomberg suspects that the VR headset primarily serve to create a basis for the later planned AR headset. This will be considered by Apple as mainstreamable, but also as a tricky in development.
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