A few days after the announcement of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to be held from June 6 to 10, analyzes of the first betas of iOS 16 are discovering a large number of references to the mixed reality headset ( MR) from the California company.
One release during iOS 16 lifecycle
Mark Gurman, journalist at Bloombergrevealed on April 10 that the first iOS16 betas, codenamed Sydney, “ are full of references to the mixed reality headset and its interactions with the iPhone “. According to him, this proves that the headset will be released during the life cycle of iOS 16. It starts in June and should last until the arrival of iOS 17 in the fall of 2023.
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Apple could show in preview, during its next WWDC, in June, the software realityOS, under which will turn the “next big thing” of the Californian company.
The potential name of the operating system of this headset was already known. The mention of realityOS had been noted by Bloomberg within iOS 13, two years earlier. The latter had reappeared in early February in an Apple GitHub directory, and in the App Store upload logs.
Apple is slow to unveil its headphones
Always according to the correspondent of the American media Bloombergthe MR headset, which combines virtual reality and augmented reality, will not be on the program for the Californian giant’s next conference.
The Apple specialist revealed at the end of January that his announcement was likely to be postponed to the end of 2022 with a release on the shelves scheduled for 2023. He explains that the product, whose development began in 2015, is encountering problems overheating, cameras and software.
Tim Cook’s new flagship will undoubtedly set the stage for Apple Glass, augmented reality glasses that Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at TF International Securities specializing in Apple product prediction, estimates will be released in 2025. as soon as possible.