All the Augmented Reality glasses of the Cupertino company have been a recurring rumor in recent years. Honestly, it is a product that companies of the stature of Google have already tried to popularize and that went unnoticed by the general market, so much so that today they are nothing more than a discarded project. Be that as it may, at Apple lately they do not have the secrets under lock and key as they did in the past.
There is no place for surprise in Cupertino, This is all the leaked information about Apple Glass, the Augmented Reality glasses that Apple intends to place on the market.
Augmented Reality Glasses
The first curious attempt was by Google and its name, as it could not be otherwise, was Google Glass. The glasses (or the adapter for them) of Google It was a curious product, however, the lack of compatibility and functionalities, as well as an excessively complex interface to use made this product werable it clearly stagnated in the professional sector, where, on the other hand, it did not have a special implantation either. This is how the North American company decided to park the project and focus on things that work like Android.
Since then, Apple has been associated with glasses of this style for two reasons: The first is that these companies are automatically related to the products launched by the competition, as if they depended on each other; The second is that Apple has always shown a strong commitment to Augmented Reality, and precisely these glasses would be focused on constantly interacting with this technology that according to the Cupertino company is the future, ahead even of Virtual Reality and other types of technologies. more traditional user interface. In short, everything seemed to indicate that Apple was indeed going to bet on glasses.
The great Apple Glass leak
This time the leaks seem to have adapted to new trends, we remember when an iPhone in "prototype" ended up on a bar counter and fell accidentally into the hands of a blogger. On this occasion, the leaks are passed to YouTube, where the general public lives today. One of the leakers most popular of recent times is Jon Prosser, the YouTuber that among other things became famous for filtering much of the features of the new generation of the iPhone that will be released this year.
For its part, Jon prosser It seems to have an internal source of the Cupertino company that sooner or later will end up falling, but for now it is giving us a lot to talk about, we cannot complain about it either, since that is how we get the idea of what is to come, however , lose a bit of the magic of Apple presentations. Be that as it may, we give Prosser a certain credibility as we did Mark Gurman at the time, bridging the differences between an "analyst" and a content creator on YouTube of course.
The design and name of the product
El leaker He argues having accessed the first schematics of this product that seems closer to its launch than we might imagine. In theory, the glasses would have a classic but elegant design and appearance, that is to say, no excessively technological products in this regard. Much is rumored that they could have the classic design of the traditional "pasta glasses", let's get rid of so many prejudices. What's more, These Apple Glass can be graduated for users who really require the use of glasses, What seems out of the question is that tinted windows are included for the incidence of the Sun.
These glasses will have screens integrated into the two lenses, although I am not quite clear about the level of transparency that this integrated screen could offer. I see much more logical a kind of projection from the upper or lower body of the glasses. Another section related to design and that has its own is the incidence of LiDAR that Apple includes again in a new product as has already happened on the iPad (focused on creating and playing content in Augmented Reality) and it will happen in the future iPhone 12 Pro.
Release dates and price
According to Prosser, these new Apple glasses have planned to reach the market at late this year 2020 or early 2021. The truth is that I would be surprised if Apple let the Christmas period pass to be able to sell such a product. For its part, no special mention is made of the customization capabilities that Apple could offer in this regard. A good strategy has been that of accessories for the Apple Watch and its different versions, therefore it would be hard for me to believe that the Cupertino firm did not bet on the same mechanism in order to squeeze the most out of the product.
The Apple glasses project is very green. At least until 2022 nothing.
These Apple Watch would cost from U.S. dollar 499 depending on the material chosen. Whether or not we graduate the glasses will also have a great impact on this. The question is whether Apple will allow us to include crystals from any optician or are we necessarily going to have to go to the Apple Store to have our appointment with the eye doctor, which is still funny. While the company will bet on launching its own application store as it has done with the Apple Watch or the Apple TV In order to incentivize developers and not stagnate the capabilities of the device.
Be that as it may, to interact with the user interface of the Apple Glass we will have to make gestures (hence the integration of LiDAR sensors). We do not know to what extent a product of these characteristics is necessary, but the truth is that lately Apple has taken seriously this of showing us that when a niche market seems dead, revive it, something like what happened with AirPods, tablets or the more than successful Apple Watch. Now it only remains to see how the grand jury (consumers) reacts to these Apple glasses and their generalization.