Areport from Mark Gurman at Bloombergclaims that Apple is shutter one of its more advanced projects : a stage set of Augmented Reality glasses that connect to other Apple gadget .
It ’s an inner - baseball look at some of the product decision that happen at Apple , but while often rumour , these AR glasses have never been formally announced .
The glasses were seen within Apple as a rude phylogenesis beyond Vision Pro . Vision Pro was always going to be a niche twist , not only because of its sky - high price ( $ 3,500 U.S. ) but its ill-chosen nature . Even among VR headsets it is big and require a leash to a bombardment ingroup .
The AR glasses would resemble normal glasses and allow users look through lenses in the tangible world , but contain mix display that superimpose rendered art on them . Code - make N107 , Apple wanted this machine to be lighter and more affordable by induce them tethered to your iPhone , which would do the volume of the processing work .
That did n’t really work out , patently . The iPhones were limited in their processing capability , and using the AR crank drained the iPhone ’s battery too rapidly . So , Apple reportedly switched gears to create them tethered to a Mac , which has beefier processor and big battery .
Recent prototypes were not received well , according to Gurman , and it ’s easy to see why . If a Vision Pro is cumbersome with a conducting wire going to a battery pack in your pocket , how could you ever have a bun in the oven users to remain tethered to a MacBook ? The Vision Pro needsmoreportability , not less .
Gurman say the Vision Products Group is still working on a successor to the Vision Pro , including updated variant that resemble the original model . But it ’s not clean if there is another truthful “ AR Glasses ” undertaking within Apple or if that route is now closed . Apple originally delete a project code - discover N421 , Gurman reports , which were to be AR glasses bring to market about a year after Vision Pro . The team is also still working on several of the underlie technology engineering science that would have been used in the glasses .
