Yo, check it out, I've got some juicy insider info about Apple's XR headset. Apparently, it's made of aluminium, glass, and carbon fibre, it's compact and lightweight, and it's got a waist-mounted battery that can be replaced on the fly.
Jony Ive, the former chief designer, came up with this design, and it's powered by two 5 nm processors, the M2 and the ISP. The ISP streams and de-warps the image from the integrated cameras with low latency, which is crucial for mixed-reality applications. They also got an H2 chip for ultra-low latency audio transmission to the AirPod Pros.
The headband has speakers, but they're audible to outsiders, so privacy might be an issue. But there's a quick dial that switches between virtual and physical worlds, and if you need corrective lenses, you can just pop 'em in with magnets. The field of view is 120 degrees, and Apple's betting on XR video calls as the killer app.
The headset has a screen that shows your facial expressions to others and it's got a 4K micro OLED display from Sony and an LG display in the peripherals. Eye tracking and foveated rendering are included, and there are two LiDAR scanners and more than a dozen cameras. They're focusing on education and XR video conferencing with realistic avatars, and they want to enable a transition between the Mac and XR display.
The price is expected to be around $3,000, and the launch was originally planned for 2022. Ain't that something?
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