In a surprising twist in Apple’s AR story, Apple plans to introduce its headset this year. But when you hear the details, you might wonder why.
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Apple’s long-awaited augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) headset will finally arrive this year, according to well-documented Apple reporter Mark Gurman, and headsets are already in the hands (or on the faces) of select developers. But even if this is the best headset ever, and even if Apple ships it for less than the expected $2,000-$3,000 price tag, will anyone want one? After all, most of the projected uses are surprisingly mundane.
“AR offers benefits for both education and industry. It can bring student textbooks to life, improve maintenance crew guidance by projecting instructions directly onto equipment, or enable airline pilots to quickly overlay navigation and weather data onto the actual view outside the aircraft,” technology expert Daivat Dholakia told Lifewire via email.
If this is a VR headset, you can forget it. VR is really only useful for gaming and specialized purposes like pilot training or maybe medicine. No matter how small or light or how super high-resolution an Apple headset is, no one is going to wear one in their everyday life. For starters, how are you going to switch off during Zoom calls if you can’t look at your phone when you’re supposed to be listening to your boss drone on about whatever, wha wah waaa…?
