Apple's AR glasses go on sale in a few months

Apple's leadership seems to be looking for new growth points, because the smartphone and tablet market has turned into

thick forest of competitors. Of course, there is a business for services to the corporation, and it still gives a steady income, but no more than that, but it is necessary to grow, and preferably on the iron front. The next device, apparently, will be AR-glasses. Apple’s interest in this segment has been growing not for the first year, and if it used to be a niche for geeks, because there was very little practical use, now the power of mobile systems has grown a lot, making it possible to create compact wearable devices with AR technology.

Debut preparation

Although the company is not tooextends to their plans in this direction, buying profile start-ups, as well as a set of experts in the field of VR and AR, indirectly confirms that active preparation is underway to enter the global market. Yes, Cook himself recently very enthusiastically spoke about the prospects for augmented reality. However, many experts are extremely skeptical about the release of a really mature product, the technology, in their opinion, is not yet sufficiently polished for true smart glasses.

But is it so long to wait? Here Chi Kuo, who is a very well-known analyst, is sure that Apple’s first AR device will be put on the conveyor in the second quarter of next year. And this, he said, is the latest term, since there are prerequisites that production will begin even this year.

VR - niche, AR - mass technology

At first, when technology was bornvirtual worlds, most people did not distinguish what VR is and how it differs from AR, the first people immerse a person completely into virtual reality, that is, into a fictional world. These headsets are not very common, and the concept itself suggests that such gadgets can be used only in special rooms. With augmented reality, everything is much more interesting. It can be used everywhere, at home, in the office, at enterprises, in transport, aviation, just on the street, on a journey, or in school. In general, AR has a much more promising future than VR, and Apple agrees with Facebook on this.

What is remarkable, judging by the leaks and the words of Kuo,Apple will not make stand-alone glasses, but connect via cable to the iPhone. If this is the case, and the glasses will use the power of the smartphone, then the appearance of this product is not such a distant prospect. Points will be compact, lightweight, without a processor and other components that provide data processing. There, even the GPS sensor does not need to be installed, and other components that are installed in stand-alone headsets. If they do the same, but with a wireless connection, it will be more interesting. The glasses will have their own displays, as well as various sensors and scanners. In general, we are waiting for a rather attractive device, a better Gear VR from Samsung, which uses the display of the smartphone.

Prices

Separate stand-alone headsets require powerfuliron and other complex components, they are quite expensive today. It is cheaper to produce AR-glasses that will interact with the smartphone, drawing from there the main performance. That is why the Apple device will be significantly cheaper than the same Google Glass, and even more so the business version of HoloLens 2 from Microsoft with a price tag of 3.5 thousand dollars. In any case, so far no one really knows what practical use such glasses will have, which Apple will invest in their functions.

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