Apple made what looks like the best AR/VR headset ever. That`s what they do. But, uh… why?
The long-held wisdom with Apple is that they`re rarely the first these days in a new product category, but when they do jump in they completely change the game. The iPhone was the first smartphone, but it was a revolution compared to what BlackBerry, Nokia, and Palm were doing. The iPad wasn`t the first tablet computer, but it blew all of the Windows PC tablets out of the water. They take everything that other companies have played around with, remix it, add in Apple`s increasingly absurd hardware and silicon design chops, and create a new contender that is a step above everything that came before.
And so, today, that`s exactly what Apple did today when it unveiled their new Apple Vision Pro AR headset. Samsung, HTC, Facebook, Sony, Microsoft, Valve and have been making headsets for years. Some were full VR, some AR, some blending the two (XR, as Microsoft calls it with their Hololens project...
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