Apple Pushes Back Mixed-Reality Headset Debut Two Months to June

Agree.

While Apple has had some hits in recent time (AirPods), they’ve failed to innovate in a new/emerging category for some time now.

It will be polished, but that doesn’t == successful or revolutionary

People might wear them if it gives them an advantage over those who don't. Imagine pairing it with something like rewind.ai - you could be in argument with someone and have floating text suggestions of what to say, utilizing the total cumulative data of all interaction between the two of you. The other person might try to mock you for using your AI sunglasses, but they wouldn't be able to deny the fact that this is 4th time this year you've had to be late to work because they were too drunk to take the kids to school, nor would they be able to counter the optimally-persuasive arguments it would generate.

Leaving out AI integrations, APIs could be available for social media "see through my eyes" sessions by internet personalities. Overlay instructions for how to assemble a product or change a car tire. To help friends find each other in a crowded venue. It could be integrated with networked road and on-vehicle cameras to allow a driver to see around a blind urban corner, or to highlight pedestrians. It could brighten, magnify, and highlight items of importance for those with diminished eyesight. The more sensors integrated the more possibilities. Soldiers could have an infrared vision overlay and virtual laser beam pointing from their rifle barrel.

The applications are there. But it will take an org who can make it polished and accessible. Apple used to be that, I don't know if they still are.

I am with you, but if they pull it off it will be something. I am just not sure what it could be that could pull it off. Perhaps it is very good mixed reality in normal looking glasses. Apple does have very low power chips available to them.

I am just concerned there is no one there that will say, “this is dumb, real people won’t use it.” Even if it is interesting. Even if it works well. If it goes on your face you can’t look like a dork using it or only dorks will buy it. And I have to imagine Apple wants to sell to more than a hundred thousand or so tech weirdos and that is it.

Then there is the question of what does it do? The Apple Watch is great for fitness. What is the mixed reality headset good for? Why do I need this thing? How does it improve me life?

Groundbreaking? That hasn't been true in a long time. Apple now just tries to make money by tying its hardware to boring services like App Store ads, iCloud and Apple Music subscriptions.

What was Apple's last new product? Apple Watch - which after a decade is still nothing more than a dumb client for the iPhone. "Mixed Reality" sounds like more of the same; a way for Apple to create an ecosystem where there's no Chrome or Google maps to compete against.

If the headset can do any of that, it would be horribly dated on release. I’m hoping it’s a lot more or something very different from that.

It's supposed to be a standalone device. At the rumoured price of point of $1500 minimum, it would be suicidal to make it reliant on an iPhone (or any phone really).

Yeah they could just keep kicking this can and watching the reaction. Nobody cares.

I think so too, a product like this is useless without software, and unlike 2007, Apple cannot simply create a bunch of basic apps and hope that an app store can fill the gaps.