Because the Apple viewer worries Cupertino employees themselves
The company founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino would be in trouble due to the rumored headset that Apple should announce soon
Succeed where even Google failed? Quite a challenge. This probably explains the unease that the New York Times was able to perceive in the Apple headquarters, hearing eight people who have had to do in various ways with the dossier of the rumored mixed VR / AR viewer. Everyone is talking about it, the mantra is always that it should be announced soon by Apple, but in the meantime nothing is known about it yet.
GOOGLE IS NO LONGER A PROBLEM
What is certain is that it was born under a cloudy sky, which has just seen the Google invention expire . Or, if you read it upside down, it was born under a lucky star, given that Google Glass just killed itself. They had been out for a long time, actually, given that in order to keep the project going, the Web giant had gradually sectorised them, allocating them only to companies.
But if Mountain View 'cries', Cupertino doesn't laugh, at least according to the New York newspaper which reports that employees are worried about the fate of the device, fearing it could be a flop. And perhaps lead to that haemorrhage of layoffs that everyone fears, considering that in fact while Amazon and Alphabet alone have fired something like 30,000 people in recent months, Cupertino was in fact the only one that hasn't fired practically anyone. But will it be the same even with the flop of VR/AR glasses?
But let's get back to the worries about the super secret project. If there is anything true among the many rumors that have spread about the Apple viewer, it could be the one concerning a very unpopular price, perhaps even around 3 thousand dollars. A respectable price but not exceptional in the sector if we consider that Microsoft offers its HoloLens 2 for 3,500 dollars.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE APPLE HEADSET
Other rumors say that Apple's virtual reality headset would be equipped with 12 cameras for tracking and video capture from outside the viewer, thus allowing rather advanced AR applications.
Inside there should also be an eye tracking system to help reduce the rendering load in areas of the screens that are not in focus: in short, the technology would know where we are looking and focus exclusively on those points, downgrading the detail of the peripheral areas.
Always rumors collected in recent months also speak of LiDAR sensors capable of precisely measuring the distances of objects displayed in AR.
Indeed, if Apple's viewers have such technological baggage, they could really cost three thousand dollars (or more, given the price lists of the Cupertino company). Designed to enrich the experience in the metaverse and, at the same time, finally make the metaverse something truly distinguishable from the traditional internet, Apple's viewer risks being attractive to too small an audience. According to some rumors, the official presentation of the viewer could take place during WWDC 2023 whose date, according to some, would be set for June 5, 2023.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/perche-il-visore-apple-inquieta-gli-stessi-dipendenti-di-cupertino/ on Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:02:25 +0000.