That writes the usually well-informed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, report MacRumors on 9to5Mac. The Apple glasses will work independently of the iPhone, predicts Kuo. “That way, it has its own ecosystem to provide the most complete and flexible user experience,” the analyst writes.
With augmented reality, users see their real environment, which is supplemented with virtual elements. Advanced glasses would make a smartphone superfluous, by projecting a virtual telephone into the user’s hand, as it were. “There are now over a billion active iPhone users. If Apple’s goal is to replace the iPhone with AR within ten years, that means Apple will sell at least a billion AR devices during that time,” Kuo said.
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Glasses get powerful M1 chip
The first glasses, where already long rumors about going around, according to Kuo, will be released in the fourth quarter of 2022. The glasses will use an Apple chip, which would be very similar to the M1 chip that is in current MacBooks and iMacs. That fast chip would be necessary because of the many cameras on the glasses.
There would be six to eight cameras on the Apple glasses, which capture images around the user, analyze them and provide them with virtual elements. That constant analysis of live images takes a lot of computing power.
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4K screens and high price
Apple would like to show the images on its first glasses via two 4K OLED screens from Sony. That also costs a lot of computing power, and should provide sharper images than with most current VR glasses.
Recently Bloomberg also already on an appearance of Apple glasses sometime in 2022. That first model would be quite expensive: rumors point to a price of 3,000 dollars. With that, the glasses mainly aimed at app makers, who can then make apps so that later, cheaper glasses have enough applications for the wider public.
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