VR headset Apples next big product about to launch!!!

Digital Engineer
3 min readMar 23, 2021

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Virtual reality has been in the pipeline for years. It’s been decades and while some devices in limited ways have offered consumers a teasing glimpse of that long-promised transcendental immersive experience. Nobody has quite pulled it off but apple reportedly about to enter the arena with its long-awaited consumer VR device. All that could soon be about to change.

Is Apple working on both AR & VR?

So what we can expect from apple’s VR headset. The first thing to get your head around is the fact that for apple at least this kind of technology is actually nothing new. According to those rare and precious rumours that escape the tight-lipped Cupertino firm! Apple has been quietly beavering away at the problem of VR and its close cousin augmented reality or AR for at least a decade now.

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Indeed it’s said that a secret apple team numbering in the hundreds has been working tirelessly to clear those fiendish! Technical and aesthetic hurdles required to launch a virtual reality product that meets apple’s exacting standards. At the higher echelons of apple’s corporate hierarchy Chief hardware engineer, Dan Riccio was reportedly moved into a new executive role! Overseeing VR and AR development within the company and the firm. Certainly hasn’t been shy of making acquisitions in the VR and AR space! Buying up motion capture firm face shift and AR software startup Mateo in 2014 and facial recognition upstarts in motion the following year as recently as 2020.

Apple also bought up Californian virtual reality developer nextVR. They’ve even roped in AR and VR experts from the world of academia with noteworthy hires including one Doug bowman a computer science professor at Virginia Tech and author of seminal text 3d user interfaces theory and practice in 2017.

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Apples Commitment!

Apple made its commitment even clearer by launching arkit! A platform designed to help developers make the most of the AR capabilities within apple’s existing suite of devices. While you the end-user wouldn’t necessarily know that AR kit is at work fun applications like Minecraft earth is built entirely on arkit’s ability to use iPad or iPhone’s existing cameras and motion sensors. So apple technology can already comfortably recognize and virtually manipulate horizontal planes and walls in any given real-world space. So what’s this headset actually going to be like reliable sources with access to internal documents report that Apple is currently working on two separate AR and VR products…

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