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Next week should mark a key event in the history of VR: Apple enters the headsets race by presenting it's new device at the WWDC.
Depending on how well it goes, VR might jump in a golden age or fall deeper in these dark ages
For people out of the loop, here's the rumors:
- Sources say it was supposed to be announced at the beginning of this year, but it was delayed due to software issues
- It was intended to be launched even as far back as 2019, but it got delayed year after year since then
- It's going to be crazy expensive ($3000)
- It's going to have extremely high tech display: 4000 pixels per inch. Quest 2 has 773 for reference, Rift S has 538, Vive Pro 615 PPI.
Technically with that high of a resolution it should be able to replace physical monitors for productivity tasks (reading, writing). Not to mention better porn!
- the displays should be able to provide much more light than other headsets around, making things look more vivid. Most headsets shine at 100 nits, which is comparable to old CRT TVs and monitors. Apple's headset supposedly shines at 5000 nits but the percieved light should be 500-1000nits due to the lenses used. That's similar or better than an iPhone X and most modern TVs
- It will almost certainly use foveated rendering for better performance. Instead of rendering at 100% quality, the headset should track the eye position and render at max quality just a small portion of the screen, leaving everything else low quality since you can't really see it anyway
- It's safe to assume they'll continue tradition with a closed ecosystem, ignore existings standards and games and do their own closed games & apps, which will be extremely scarce for a while. To launch something this expensive and with so much hype around it for so long, they MUST have a killer feature. The speculation is that it's crazy good AR, the likes we've been hearing about for years from Magic Leap
- There's going to be an "iBelt" holding the battery. I haven't seen any rumors about this but it would be such a waste of space to not add a tracker on that for the torso or some other features
I'm excited to watch how it will play out. It seems like it's going to be either revolutionary or a massive disaster.
What do you guys think or hope to see? Anyone else hyped?