Depending on how they implement the OS this could be amazing. Apple have head start with their integrated chips and the U1 chip so ideally the AR features can be fixed to different environments maybe even using HomePod as a location base station. I’d love to be able to walk between rooms and pin different content in each like virtual monitors in the office and a virtual tv in the living room that dynamically react when the user walks in. It doesn’t need to be something people wear outdoors and as for the price whilst expensive it depends on how many devices it could replace/complement which they need to communicate in marketing.

Why has Apple bought Beats, but AirPods are still their main/famous model of headphones?

I’m going to buy it

Apple AR glasses are going to be more popular initially. VR is still a few years away from being a mass market product.

I think AR is a waste of time until its as invisible as a regular pair of glasses.

Some think VR being isolating is a bad thing when really they miss the whole point of VR.

VR is meant to be an ESCAPE from the real world into a virtual fantasy one.
you can still interact with real people in it though.

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Ok. So high quality see through headsets, like light weight glasses, are about 4 – 10 years away. And if you consider global smartphone adoption took about 3-8 years to be mainstream its easier to get a better picture of XR.
That said, I think the focus on AR and VR to be quite limited. At the moment VR is niche, but for the most part all upcoming headsets will support passthrough AR. This mixture of VR and AR combined will likely drive a lot of innovation, and will be dubbed Augmented Virtuality.

Now these headsets will be tethered, expensive, and niche. But the technical infrastructure and social adoption of technology will evolve hardware really fast. Like smartphones, color tv, the internet, and so forth; adoption will spike rapidly. Its up for us, the content creators, to get the tools to create for this exciting new medium.

VR is going to take a long time to mainstream. It's too expensive and will be for a long time and the headsets are too cumbersome. I think the normal AR everyday glasses are where it's at. Way cheaper and far more functional in the everyday world. They don't need to be super advanced either but they'll get there in the future as they progress. I was super excited when I heard rumors that the glasses were coming out and I don't even wear glasses. I was thinking about buying an Apple Watch but was hard to justify the luxury when I already carry a better one in my pocket and then heard about the glasses and that was the end of the Watch for me because then I'll have it in view all the time. I hope this VR device is really just the glasses, it'll be a huge disappointment and mistake to only come out with the VR. The way Apple designs things I know they can easily put all the tech of an Apple Watch in a pair of sleek glasses.

Bridget is always cool & watchable (and ageless), and hi to Lexi (is she still around CNet?). I'm in the minority here; I'm into VR and it helped me in ways I never thought of. I had very bad ptsd from surviving multiple fires, and the vr gets me out of this place. Meditation thru it pretty much cleared me up. I am very sensitive but got my vr legs now & can't get enough (as long as it's comfort leveled for me). Apple is the key trendsetter for so many things, I hope some of you will give vr a chance (if they go that route) because it can do more than u think. 😎❤🥽

Have you decided to be the 'All Apple, All the Time' Channel? Because if so, I will unsubscribe. There are other brands out there, you know. It's getting ridiculous.

I agree that AR is much more compelling than VR, and specifically I mean glasses on the forehead. I've owned all of the Oculus headsets except the Pro because I'm just kind of done with VR. It's kind of boring, the graphics are weak, and my eyes hurt after using it. All I really want is a pair of glasses I could put on that would overlay graphics onto my existing world. My happiest scenario would be something where I could be walking down the street and not needing to pull out my phone, or even better – not needing a large monitor at my desktop. I think that a true desktop replacement head-mounted display could be the biggest game-changer of them all because your laptop or your phone could provide all of the computing power behind it, while the glasses themselves just render what is sent. Then I could watch fantastic movies on planes, work anywhere without needing to haul a huge display with me, and enhance my own situational awareness as I walk about my daily life without looking down at a phone. Basically, Google's glass, but not sucky. Additionally, think about how taking your display with you anywhere could improve ergonomics. Right now, most of us still sit at desks with large keyboards and displays, but if your display doesn't have to be a huge screen, you could sit/stand anywhere you want and your computing experience would conform to you, not the other way around. This alone could make computing healthier for all of us.

Apple "MONOCLE ", Apples take on AR. Image is projected on one eye and the other is uncovered. Maybe call it "iPatch" (pronounced eye-patch).

If you can’t drive wearing the Apple Goggle and be as useful as the iPhone, it will not be successful.

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I said and still think the same as some others, to keep the price of this headset down they need to launch it as a companion device rather than stand alone device, I am willing to bet that anyone who gets an Apple headset will already own at least 1 other Apple device which could power the headset. At the least they should bring out a companion headset and a stand alone headset which will cost more.

The last VR headset I owned was a Samsung Gear VR… I’m either going to get this, a Quest 3 or PSVR 2, just need to wait and see what they all bring to the table before I make my choice.

would love for apple to release a hologram device