- Hey guys it's Justine
and I kinda saw this news today
or it's been rumored for quite a while
that Apple is going to be announcing
a mixed reality headset.
And I'm checking out it's right here on Mac rumors.
They're saying that they're actually set
to announce this in the next couple of months,
at an, (gasps) hold on, in-person event. (gasps)
I am just as shook and shocked as you are.
I do feel like at some point we are
going to have to kind of test the waters
of what do in-person events look like.
And I think if anybody is going
to be able to test this out
and figure out a really good model.
Or even when you get to the event you have to
do some sort of rapid COVID test to even enter.
I'm not really sure.
But it's going to be really interesting
to see kind of how this whole new world
sort of evolves out of what this last year has presented us.
But me, as someone who sometimes does
get a little motion sickness in VR,
it's unfortunate because I love it so much.
And I think that's why I kind of like augmented reality
because I'm not kind of enclosed inside of a headset.
I don't feel so constricted.
And a lot of the headsets, they're not uncomfortable
especially with like the Quest headsets.
They're actually very comfortable.
If you guys remember not too long ago,
these types of headsets, you've had to be
connected to (indistinct)
There were cables, it was heavy.
Sometimes you'd have to wear a backpack
with limited battery power.
So now, kind of bringing this to the masses
like Oculus has done, is kind of exciting.
And I know obviously there's been
a lot of drama with Oculus
because of Facebook and needing to authenticate.
So it's gonna be interesting how Apple
kind of handles this obviously with a lot of
the new privacy policies in the App Store
with our "nutrition labels."
I know that also stemmed a lot of
drama from a lot of devs
because they didn't really want to disclose
all of the information that they
have been gathering from us.
So I do very much appreciate knowing how
much information is actually given out to people.
But in this article, it's saying that Bloomberg
had previously reported that Apple's
first AR VR headset would be a high-end pricey
and niche device aimed at developers.
Internally Apple believes it could sell
just one headset per day at its retail locations.
180 units a year at its 500 stores.
I mean, math.
Headset was rumored to have duel 8K displays eye tracking,
and more than a dozen cameras for tracking hand movements.
Which is going to be kind of cool.
And one of the things that I really did like
about the Quest is when you kind of turned on,
I don't know what they call it exactly,
but it's like the mode where you can kind of see around you.
I think Apple's going to hopefully
do a lot in sort of that vein.
Because they've been pushing augmented reality
so much over the past couple of years
and I think that really with whatever this headset is
if it's small, if it's a pair of wearable glasses
that's going to be the future, it really is.
I just don't think that they're going to
be able to make it that significantly
smaller than the Oculus Quest.
Especially if they plan on packing
all of this tech inside of it.
One thing that kind of sparked my
interest though with this article,
is because WWDC is coming up.
They officially announced that it's
happening July 7th through 11th,
and it's going to be all digital, all virtual
but this is kind of where developers,
we get a sense of what the next few years
are going to look like with Apple.
So it would make sense that they pre-announced this
just to let us all know that this is
something that is in the works
and get these headsets to developers immediately.
Because without having developers developing
specifically for this type of headset,
it's going to be really difficult
to even want to own it without having content.
I mean, even Oculus, yes, there's a lot of content
but they're still, I don't think is enough
for like the mass audience of people to be like
this is something that I need to have in my house.
We're going to be using it every day.
There's enough content here that
I can basically live inside a VR AR.
It's not quite there.
And I think that's okay.
I think we are a few years away
from this being kind of a staple
of a household where everybody does
have something in your home like this.
Getting this out now, potentially in June
is going to be amazing.
Did I say July or did I say June?
Last year they kind of had to scramble
and get this all together.
Whereas now they've had a full year to plan
and know this is going to be digital only.
I would love to hear from you guys though
in the comments, like, what are you expecting?
I feel like initially when we first started
seeing these headset kind of rumors,
we were all sort of picturing
some sort of like Google Glass type thing.
Which I really loved Google Glass.
Like I thought it was cool,
kind of a small little heads up display
and you could kind of just integrate it
into your everyday life.
I'm still holding out for something like that from Apple.
But I do think them kind of taking this leap
into the VR AR space with a headset
like something similar to Oculus Quest is exciting.
So I know I'll be looking out for it.
What about you?
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