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Apple Reportedly Cancels Mac-connected AR Glasses Due to Poor Internal Reviews

February 6, 2025 2 Min Read
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In line with a Bloomberg report, Apple has shuttered an AR glasses challenge geared toward mainstream shoppers.

Initially deliberate for launch in 2027, the gadget, codenamed N107, was a Mac-connected pair of AR glasses which the corporate was positioning as a extra accessible different to the $3,500 Imaginative and prescient Professional blended actuality headset.

The report, citing inner sources, maintains Apple initially deliberate for N107 to pair with iPhone, nonetheless processing energy and battery life was a significant factor, prompting the corporate to as an alternative pivot the gadget to work primarily with Mac, owing to its sooner processing energy and bigger batteries.

Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional | Picture courtesy Apple

Nonetheless, the Mac-connected model of the gadget allegedly underperformed throughout govt critiques. In the long run, it’s stated that efficiency points, shifting design targets, and anticipated worth led to its cancellation.

Regardless of shuttering the challenge, which is likened to Meta’s Orion AR glasses prototype in perform, the corporate isn’t giving up on its AR ambitions altogether, as underlying applied sciences are anticipated to make their method into different tasks sooner or later, corresponding to its customized microLED shows.

This comes as rivals are gearing up their very own XR tasks focused at shoppers, together with Google’s Android XR platform for MR headsets and AR glasses, and Meta’s ongoing analysis into AR, which is claimed to culminate in a pair of AR glasses slated to launch earlier than 2030—primarily based on expertise developed for Orion.

Notably, Orion offloads processing and battery to a wi-fi, pocketable unit, permitting the interior prototype to take care of its glasses-like kind issue. Whether or not that is still the case in a pair of shopper AR glasses from Meta stays to be seen, because it undoubtedly will increase total prices—one thing Apple probably needed to shave because it was ostensibly hoping to depend on units shoppers already owned.

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