Palmer Luckey, the founding father of Oculus who left the corporate in 2017, seems to have insider data of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is predicted to be unveiled at its Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) subsequent month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the house is outwardly “so good.”
The Apple headset is so good.
— Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) Might 14, 2023
Luckey hasn’t quantified his expertise past this, and even stated that his impressions certainly come from a private demo of Apple’s long-rumored combined actuality headset, which, like Meta Quest Professional, is considered able to each digital actuality and passthrough augmented actuality due to outward going through cameras. Regardless of the case, the VR pioneer is sufficiently impressed with regardless of the fruit firm has in retailer.
Luckey, who based protection firm Andruil after his 2017 Fb departure, isn’t any stranger to candidly voicing his opinions on headset design. When unicorn AR startup Magic Leap launched ML1 headset in mid-2018, he referred to as it a “tragic heap,” additional stating the AR headset was “a tragedy within the classical sense.”
On the time, Magic Leap was simply as secretive about its {hardware} as Apple is in the present day. And Luckey’s opinion was undoubtedly tinged by the corporate’s self-generated hype which grew within the shadow of that secrecy.
“Magic Leap wanted to essentially blow folks away to justify the previous few years,” Luckey wrote in his assessment of the headset. “The product they put out is fairly strong, however is nowhere near what they’d overestimated, and has a number of flaws that forestall it from turning into a broadly useful gizmo for growth of AR functions. That isn’t good for the XR business.”
Does this imply Apple is definitely delivering on the hype and pushing the ball ahead with the reported $3,000 headset? Even with an avalanche of patently unverifiable leaks to go on and Luckey’s phrase, we actually gained’t know till that ‘another factor’ is introduced on stage. Then once more, you merely by no means can inform with Apple. Now we have our calendars marked for the June fifth WWDC keynote, so be part of us then to search out out.
