Apple’s mixed reality headset isn’t going to be an expensive luxury item forever.
According to reports by both The Information and Bloomberg, Apple is working on a second iteration of its upcoming, heavily rumored mixed reality headset that will be priced a little increasingly fairly for the worldwide consumer. The first one, potentially launching this June, is said to forfeit virtually $3,000. According to these new reports, the later version will be priced increasingly like an iPhone, and may not launch until 2024 or 2025.
Of course, that can midpoint a lot of things. Current iPhones start at virtually $800 and can unlearn past $1,500 if you get all the wedding and whistles like increased storage. It’s probably unscratched to seem Apple’s cheaper headset will be closer to the upper end of that range, expressly since the competitor Meta Quest Pro comes in at $1,500.
Bloomberg reported that Apple has included the names “Reality Pro” and “Reality One” in trademark filings, which could be the names for the two headsets. In theory, “Reality One” is the cheaper model. According to Bloomberg, it will be cheaper by virtue of using iPhone-level fries instead of hardware powering Apple’s increasingly powerful computers.
Aside from that, we don’t know much well-nigh this second, cheaper headset. But at least we have something truly new to squint forward to from Apple without years of iPhone domination.