Apple, Valve Jointly Developing AR Headset: Report

Co-ordinate to industry sources quoted past Taiwanese publication, Digitimes, Apple has partnered with United states of america-based gaming giant, Valve, to develop its much-rumored AR headset that's said to launch next yr. As per the report, Taiwaese ODMs, Quanta Figurer and Pegatron, have been assigned to handle the assembly job, but there'southward no discussion at this stage nearly what to expect from the device itself.

Valve is fairly experienced in the consumer VR space, having already working with HTC on its Vive VR headset. The company besides launched the Vive Index VR headset earlier this year, but the tie-up with Apple could give it unprecedented exposure, given the goodwill and accomplish the latter has among mainstream tech consumers.

As for the clan between Apple tree and Valve, this isn't the first fourth dimension the two are tying upwards either, with the ii having previously worked together to bring native VR headset support to macOS High Sierra, leveraging the software's eGPU back up with a macOS version of Steam.

The latest development comes in the wake of a contempo Bloomberg report that claimed the Cupertino giant is targeting a 2020 release date for its AR spectacles. According to the report, Apple's spectacles will come with a holographic display, and users will exist able to sync it with iPhones to display texts and incoming notifications right in front of their eyes using augmented reality.

Apple will exist hoping that its AR device succeed where the Google Glass failed so miserably, but only time will tell whether the company will be able to do that going forward.