On January 3, 2023, the website The information revealed the final details about Apple’s future mixed reality headset. His release is imminent.
What will Apple’s mixed reality headset look like?
The Apple brand has been working on its mixed reality headset since 2015 and, as usual, remains very secretive about the progress of its development. According to several sources and in particular the words of the famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could finally unveil its helmet in 2023, after 8 long years of planning. According to the latest information revealed, Apple headphones will be made of aluminum, glass and carbon fiber, noble and light materials, with the aim of reducing their size and weight.
As you can imagine, the cameras will be completely hidden for aesthetic reasons. A small wheel, similar to the one on the Apple Watch, will be located on the right side of the earpiece. This should allow users to quickly switch between the virtual world and the physical world. The helmet band could be designed in the same material as sports wristbands of the Apple Watch, with built-in speakers. Unlike Apple’s connected watch, the future mixed reality headset headband won’t be interchangeable.
Obviously the helmet will allow for the use of corrective lenses for eyeglass wearers. The disclosed information suggests that the small motors will automatically adjust vision function of the interpupillary distance of the wearer, thus providing the largest possible field of view for each individual. As for the field of view, this will be 120 degrees, such as the valve index. That’s more than Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Quest Pro’s 106-degree field of view. There will be two chips, including a main SoC, consisting of the CPU, GPU and memory, and a dedicated image signal processor.
Finally, the headphones are not expected to come with a dedicated controller, and Apple doesn’t seem to have focused on gaming for this device. Indeed, Apple is focusing by video conference, with digital avatars that have a high level of accuracy when mimicking a user’s facial expressions and body movements. With this headset, you can also open the Maps application and use it to visualize a 3D model of a city. The headset will feature a large outward-facing display at the front to show the wearer’s facial expressions with the idea of reducing the feeling of isolation while using the device.
