Apple lately introduced that its longtime {hardware} engineering chief Dan Riccio will probably be stepping right down to concentrate on a “new undertaking” inside the firm. Whereas the corporate has not revealed what that undertaking is, a brand new report claims that it’s the firm’s upcoming augmented actuality, digital actuality, or blended actuality headset.

At the moment, Mike Rockwell is overseeing the event of an AR headset at Apple however issues don’t appear to be going effectively. With Dan Riccio into the combo, Rockwell will deal with the day-to-day work on the undertaking whereas Riccio may have oversight over the efforts.

Riccio has already handed over top-level administration of the Apple iPhone to John Ternus, who will even be the brand new head of {hardware} engineering. It has additionally been confirmed that Johny Srouji will deal with the event of a brand new camera and show expertise. He is similar government that headed the design and engineering of Apple Silicon.

As per the experiences, Apple is engaged on an ultra-high-end 8K VR headset that would probably value round $3,000. That is shocking provided that to this point, the corporate’s work has been on AR and never VR. The corporate has been constructing ARKit, which is a developer API enabling the creation of AR experiences utilizing cameras and sensors of iPhones and iPads.

Based mostly on the data accessible to this point, plainly the upcoming AR/VR system from Apple will primarily be specializing in the builders or creators and never the mass adoption. We anticipate to know extra about this product in the approaching months.

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