It has been rumored for a long time apple glasses They fell to the side of the road in front of them WWDC 2023. Apple is said to be pushing augmented reality glasses more and more backwards, and the latest suggestion was 2026 release date on the closest.
Well, get ready to push that date back. In fact, I probably won’t put it on the calendar this time around.
enormously bloomberg (Opens in a new tab) In the report, Apple analyst Mark Gurman puts all the negative clouds looming overhead Apple VR/AR headsetwhich received mixed reactions ahead of WWDC 2023. While the Reality Pro headset may be very good The best VR headset In the market when it was launched, many were worried that it would stick around.
According to people familiar with the project — dubbed N421 — Apple is “at least four years away from offering any such product if at all.”
But a VR/AR headset wasn’t supposed to be the plan. As Gorman explained in his report, Apple’s first headphone was supposed to be the Apple Glasses. “Initially envisioned as an unobtrusive pair of glasses that could be worn all day, the Apple device has morphed into a headset that looks like a pair of ski goggles and requires a separate battery pack.”
And now, it looks like Apple CEO Tim Cook may never be able to reveal that first idea to the world. According to people familiar with the project — dubbed N421 — Apple is “at least four years away from offering any such product if at all.”
Why can’t Apple get the glasses right?
Unfortunately, for Apple, the main problem seems to be that augmented reality technology isn’t at the level it needs to be in order to become mainstream. According to the Gurman report, Apple simply couldn’t build AR glasses “powerful enough to be useful.”
And this is not for lack of trying. Cook has been fierce in his preference for augmented reality glasses, telling a group of students in 2016, “No one here—few people here—thinks it’s OK to be tethered to a computer that walks here and sits.” Jony Ive, formerly on Apple’s industrial design team, reportedly shared this vision, working on a standalone mobile device that was as close to Cook’s vision as possible — even if it sacrificed performance.
But despite all this effort, glasses still can’t be made. Instead, we’re getting a mixed reality headset — dubbed the N301 — which will have some augmented reality functionality but falls short of the vision Cook had.
Given that this is yet another delay, and that the failure of the Apple VR/AR headset could kill Apple’s desire to stay in the mixed reality market in the first place, I don’t expect this to be the last delay.
In fact, I’d be more surprised if Apple’s glasses showed up — at least until the technology advanced. If Apple, with all its resources, can’t figure out AR, it’s probably time to hit the reset button.
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