today i want to talk about the apple glass project specifically what is the apple glasses release
date and price and will we get some iglasses before summer 2021 or even in 2021 well today
i want to give you this information and at the same time as well what the apple specs
will do and how they will work and when we will get our hand actually on them
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hit that subscribe button followed by the bell so we have known for some time now that apple
have been working on a brand new product and these are some type of news kind of specs or
glasses that you'll be able to wear now the name of them will either be something like iglasses or
apple glass or apple glasses and what we know so far is that these glasses will have a lidar
sensor on them and they will be very ar dependent especially the apple love ar technology so just
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like these apple glasses i'm showing here so let's begin then so apple glasses have been talked about
a fair bit in the past and we have had leaks and rumors pop up even going back to 2015 and we've
also had some come up in 2017 but it wasn't until around 2019 where apple were really pushing on ar
in all their keynotes and demos and that's why apple is likely to bring out an ar eyewear project
and as the rumor mill released more more early information it looks like it's coming true very
soon just take a look at the ipad pro and the iphone 12 announcements from last year for example
both events talked about the new lidar sensor and you guessed it the sensor is mainly to help with
ar so a dedicated ar device is definitely incoming so there was a real slim chance
as well that we could have seen some apple glasses during 2020 mainly probably at the wwdc 2020 event
but nothing was shown in the end we did have our doubts that any announcement would be made
to be fair at the end of the day the industry analyst ming chai cao initially said manufacturing
of any ar specs would get underway at the end of 2019 or the start of 2020. according to
money udbn.com noting that they would be reliant on a connected iphone to do lots of processing
and connectivity for the actual apple glasses but we are now in 2021 with no glasses in sight
a research note from cal surfers that said that it had been pushed back with an
estimated release date of 2022 now but before you get too upset that 2022 is a long way away
another source has said that while they might not go on sale until then they're likely to be
announced at some point in 2021 the source added that they will apparently be called apple glass
for apple to announce the glasses and then release the product say three or even six
months later it's not unheard of either we saw the mac pro the trash can shaped device announced in
june 2013 and it actually came out five months later and then again the same with the newer mac
pro that was announced in june 2019 and didn't actually come out right to the very end of 2019.
other sources meanwhile have said that they're still coming out but they've been delayed by years
with an ar headset apparently landing in either 2021 or 2022 followed by ar glasses in 2023. as
you can see it's a bit of a mess right now and there's lots of confusion and debate around when
or even if we'll get apple glasses but the latest leak suggests that they might be announced not
too long from now but guessing our actual hands on them that's going to be a different story entirely
so no it's not the news we wanted exactly here but let's take a look at the apple glasses leaks
and rumors as well as apple's augmented reality background and why ar specs seem like the next
big move for the tech giant so let's get the next big item cross off the list and that is
the apple glasses price so scissors suggests that apple glasses will cost around 499 us dollars and
that will be around 410 uk pounds and of course that is not including any prescription charges
to alter the glass lenses if needed so let's talk more about what you've seen in patent and
specs so our biggest leak is none other than our channel favorite john prosser john was the first
to say that apple glasses will actually be called apple glass and will be capable of displaying
information on both lenses with a user controlling via gestures both on and in front of the frames
jon has also said that everything will be handled by a connected iphone and apple glass supposedly
won't have conventional cameras but will have a lidar sensor to power the actual ar experiences
other details include that there won't be a sunglasses version as the display won't
work with tinted lenses also that outside observers looking at you directly face on
won't be able to see anything on the lenses and also at the same time as well that the
prototype at least will be made out of plastic however this could change for the real deal
prasa also said apple was experimenting with a special steve jobs edition version of the glasses
that would act like an apple watch edition where the company sells a certain style
of its product for a higher price from another source mark german at bloomberg has said that the
previous information isn't correct though so take all of this with a big pinch of salt what john
crosser has just proposed beyond that apple has been busy picking up companies with an interest
in ar which suggests it's prepping its own product and recently tim cook said that apple had several
new products in the pipeline that will just blow you away and i think one of them is apple glass
we've also seen a bunch of apple patents appear recently explain how specialist lenses could be
used to cast images on a user's eye and how a iphone ipad could be used as a controller
perhaps the biggest leak was in fact an injury report out of apple's cappucino headquarters
and it suggests that two employees had eye injuries due to working on a prototype unit apple
has also made a number of key ar talent hires over the years according to aruma from bloomberg
apple has persuaded the leading employee of nasa for the project in hiring jeff norris founder of
mission operation innovation office at nasa's jet propulsion lab his team is apparently 1 000 people
strong and the ar glasses they're working on are said to be a high quality resolution of cameras
3d scanning and an amazing display and advanced human detection also built straight into them
they're also apparently working on an ar headset which could launch first with a
design like the oculus quest but a lightweight more comfortable build instead in more recent
news in may 2020 apple can firmly acquired next vr a startup that produced virtual reality content
from the likes of nba and fox sports while it's unclear how this could impact apple ar glasses
it's logical the startup's expertise will contribute to the product design in some way
so i've been banging on about apple glasses and that they will mainly use ar and some of you
have probably heard of ar but not fully understood what it actually does and have i actually seen it
before so to be honest you probably actually have seen it so some of the most popular examples of ar
are lenses and filters available on instagram and snapchat the ones where for example you stick your
tongue out and the dog's tongue appears over the top of it or your ears change into a dog's ears
or you have hearts coming out of your eyeballs or for example if you're doing a video chat and
you can put on a silly hat on top of your head and it follows you around they are all ar experiences
another great example before the days of covert 19 when we could go out and about was pokemon go
where your pokeball and your pokemon could be seen for a combination of through your phone's camera
and the phone's screen so with all these possibilities that have become reality in the
last couple of years imagine now if you could slip on some glasses and when you run into say a train
station and your glasses automatically tell you the train times to your destination right in front
of you and it will show you arrows and guys on the floor to get you to the correct platform
on time to catch your train or maybe you say to siri in the middle of a supermarket
how do i make a great chicken curry and then at that moment on your screen straight away it
will show you all the ingredients you need and it will guide you down all the correct aisles to the
right location to pick up those ingredients so you can take them home and make yourself a great curry
i could think of many more examples but i think you have the idea now
now i will say this the idea of ar glasses have been invented before some years ago this
was none other than google glass these advanced smart glasses were tipped to change everything
tech to the way we live by overlaying layers of information onto the real world but thanks to
people not really into this type of tech financial problems and design challenges they never really
fully came out apart from a small number of developers and testers getting their hands on them
although the trouble story of google glass may sound a bit of a failure it actually taught tech
companies a great deal about building ar tech enabled eyewear and the challenges of bringing
a whole new product category to the market it was very soon after that google pulled the plug
on the google glass that apple invested into the ar and the ar kit they offer right now
that's where we've got to today with ar so are you excited about the future of apple glasses or apple
glass will it be a piece of tech you're investing and get let me know below if you plan to get it
of course if we get any more news about the apple glasses we will share it with you but that is the
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