Rumors have swirled for years about Apple releasing some form of digital actuality / augmented actuality headset. While studies had pegged a potential 2022 launch for the corporate’s first combined actuality headset, the gadget is hitting some improvement snags and should not launch till 2023, according to Bloomberg.

Apple deliberate to disclose the headset at this yr’s Worldwide Developers Conference, however “development challenges related to overheating, cameras and software have made it harder to stay on track,” Bloomberg studies. The points imply the reveal might occur on the finish of the yr — and even later — with the headset occurring sale in 2023. And Apple had apparently, at one level, deliberate to disclose the gadget even earlier; Bloomberg studies the corporate wished to announce it in 2021 and ship it in 2022.

Apple didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

This first headset is anticipated to be excessive finish, with Apple contemplating costs above $2,000. Bloomberg says it can have two processors, and a minimum of one shall be “on par” with the brand new M1 Pro chip that’s out there with the corporate’s refreshed MacBook Pros. Analyst Ming-chi Kuo has additionally reported that the gadget may have two chips with one being M1-adjacent. Previous studies have additionally stated that the headset may have two 4K OLED microdisplays, 3D sensors for hand monitoring, amongst different superior parts, all of which may very well be contributing to the rumored excessive value.

Apple can be nonetheless engaged on a set of AR glasses, although they is perhaps a protracted methods off. The firm plans to introduce them “later this decade,” Bloomberg studies.