Kuo: Apple’s Actuality Professional headset is the final hope for the AR/VR market

Apple is ready to introduce its personal blended actuality headset throughout the WWDC 2023 keynote in June. Whereas rumors about this product have been swirling for years, dependable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says this occasion might be Apple’s “final hope” for convincing traders that its blended actuality headset might have an opportunity to be the following “star product” in client electronics.

In keeping with Kuo, “the present market consensus might overestimate AR/VR headset units’ contribution to key element suppliers over the following few years, significantly within the optical associated.” The analyst states that there’s at the moment “inadequate proof” to counsel that AR/VR headsets can change into the following star product in client electronics “within the foreseeable future” for any firm.

Moreover Apple’s long-rumored blended actuality headset, there are different gamers available in the market with AR/VR headsets – and so they’re all struggling. Kuo provides three totally different examples:

• The recently-announced PS VR2 barely began promoting, and Sony has lower its 2023 manufacturing plan by about 20%;
• The product lifecycle cargo for Meta Quest Professional is just round 300,000 models;
• Pico’s (China’s largest AR/VR headset model) shipments in 2022 have been greater than 40% decrease than anticipated.

With that, why would Apple be the one having success with its blended actuality headset? Present rumors present the system might be very costly (round $3,000-4,000), its battery will solely final a few hours, and a few of its most fascinating options might not work as anticipated with the primary iterations of its software program.

Though lets say the identical concerning the first iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, neither of those units (regardless of the Apple Watch being product of gold) price that a lot whereas delivering an identical expertise that customers can already do on different platforms.

Up to now, the important thing rumored options of this headset are digital actuality FaceTime, in-air typing, and an immersive video-watching expertise.

In two months, we would uncover if that might be sufficient for Apple to name this its subsequent star product.