A few days ago we told you about a leak that pointed to the name that the operating system of Apple's next augmented and virtual reality glasses could adopt. It was about reality OS, an iOS extension that would manage the entire interface and hardware of these AR glasses that could see the light at the end of 2022. Now they arrive information about the state of development of these Apple AR glasses. It is possible that the end of the engineering validation stage is nearing and the design validation tests will soon be accessed. It is expected that it will not be a mass-sold product, so its development may be more extended over time because production will not be massive.
Apple's augmented reality (AR) glasses make progress
All the engineering validation stages (EVT) It comes after a period of mockups and renderings to imagine the product without accessing any prototype. AR glasses are in the engineering validation phase, a stage where a few devices are produced with the functionality and design of the final product. There can be as many stages of engineering validation as the company wants in order to debug the alphas.
After the engineering validation, we move on to the design validation (DVT). It is a stage where the final design is polished, work begins with the software and the final interface of the device, the hardware is validated and the industrial design is computed for subsequent production. The product is also subjected to resistance tests of all kinds and regulatory approvals of the different characteristics are beginning to be requested.
Al opinion Apple's AR glasses could have entered EVT stage 2. There are, therefore, about 100 products that are being tested to reach the next phase of design validation. With this, except for surprises, Apple would pass in a few months to the production validation phase and, finally, after the production volume test move to the global market by the end of 2022.
Apple's goal with AR glasses is to make them small enough to fit inside our everyday glasses. However, until that time comes, they want to enter the market with a larger virtual and augmented reality headset that will allow developers to test realityOS and prepare for the arrival of augmented reality as Apple wants in the coming years.