With Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) fast approaching, the long-awaited mixed reality (MR) headset may not be announced. For Ming-Chi Kuo, specialist of the apple brand, the device will not make its appearance on June 6th.
Rumor has it about Apple’s mixed reality headset
As every year, several rumors are emerging around the possible revelations of the Californian technology giant during WWDC. The presentation, during the event, of the next version of the iPhone operating system, iOS 16, is beyond doubt. On the other hand, nothing is less certain about the appearance of the brand’s MR helmet.
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Many references to the headset operating system were found in the first iOS16 betas, suggesting the arrival of such a device. In reality, the discovery of this software responding to the name of realityOS is not new. It was first detected in iOS 13 two years earlier.
The presentation of the device still shifted?
What are the reasons that would prevent Apple from presenting its next flagship? In a series of tweets, Ming-Chi Kuo, analyst at TF International Securities, and always aware of Apple’s plans, believes “ that it will still be some time before Apple’s MR headset enters mass production “.
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I’m sure that if Apple announces AR/MR headset and its OS at WWDC, competitors will immediately kick off copycat projects and happily copy Apple’s excellent ideas, and hit the store shelves before Apple launches in 2023.— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) May 31, 2022
A delay which can be explained by the complications encountered by the teams of technicians working on the device. Apple had already been forced to push back the release of the headphones, originally scheduled for 2022, to 2023. Teams are running into issues with overheating, cameras and software.
The Cupertino-based company also faces competition concerns. For Ming-Chi Kuo ” if Apple announces MR headphones and its operating system at WWDC, competitors will immediately launch imitation projects and happily copy Apple’s ideas and make their products hit the shelves before Apple’s headphones in 2023 “.
The rumors around the presentation of the headset and realityOS at the next WWDC had already been denied, at the end of January, by Mark Gurman, a correspondent for the American media Bloomberg. It estimated the release of the device, whose development began in 2015, for 2023.
With all that, the chances of Apple showing its MR helmet project to the general public on June 6 are slim. However, nothing prevents him from briefly mentioning the device and the operating system on which the brand is working. The technology giant will have to prepare the ground with application developers by announcing the arrival of an OS compatible with augmented reality and mixed reality.