There is still a little more than a month left for the probable announcement of Apple’s first mixed reality headset. The presentation would in fact be expected during the opening keynote of WWDC, Apple’s global conference dedicated to developers.
There is certainly a lot of anticipation for this viewer, which has been leaking rumors for years now, which are increasingly intensifying as the day of the possible debut approaches. In recent days, Evan Blass said that Apple would make “leaps and bounds” in development in recent months. Mark Gurman, a Bloomberg journalist, instead anticipated some of the things that can be done with this mixed reality viewer.
Although the announcement should take place shortly, the arrival on the market would instead be expected in the coming months. Being a completely new product, in fact, Apple could initially offer it to developers, together with a development kit, to start creating native apps to be able to make the most of it so that it can be more attractive to interested users who apparently will have to shell out about $3,000 to get hold of.
According to what was reported by the Taiwanese newspaper Economic Daily News, the headset would now be in the “final stage” where the supply chain has already started to deliver all the parts needed for assembly. Volume production would have been launched in early April and should continue during the third quarter.
GIS, a subsidiary of Foxconn that already supplies components for the iPad, would have carried out the lamination of the lenses which would then be sent to Lixun for assembly. The final realization would instead be entrusted exclusively to Luxshare which already produces the AirPods and various iPhone and Apple Watch models and which could also be entrusted with part of the iPhone 15 Pro Max and MacBook in the future.
