As Apple continues to battle to maintain its new product bulletins secret till it’s prepared for a giant on-stage reveal, a brand new report has revealed some interesting details concerning the firm’s long-rumored AR headset, together with the truth that it could be a standalone product and never depending on an iPhone.

Both MacRumors and 9to5Mac are claiming to have seen a latest analysis report ready by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo for buyers that features new particulars about Apple’s headset plans that appear to go in opposition to one other report from again in September. That report cited nameless sources who claimed the headset’s processor was prepared for trial manufacturing however wouldn’t be as highly effective because the processors utilized in present Apple merchandise just like the iPad, iPhone, and even the MacE-book. As a consequence, it was believed the Apple headset could be depending on the machine studying capabilities of the processor in one other system, like a tethered iPhone, for its augmented and blended actuality tips, and would largely perform like a wi-fi show.

On the opposite, Ming-Chi Kuo, an Apple analyst with an impressively strong observe document of foreseeing what merchandise the corporate has enroute, has as a substitute predicted the Apple AR headset will arrive nearer to the top of 2022 and will probably be powered by a pair of processors: one to deal with “sensor-related computing” and one for every thing else that “will have similar computing power as the M1 for Mac.” Why all of the added horsepower? Kuo believes it’s as a result of the headset will probably be concurrently processing dwell feeds from extra optical sensors than even the iPhone Pro fashions should:

Apple’s AR headset requires a separate processor because the computing energy of the sensor is considerably larger than that of the iPhone. For instance, the AR headset requires not less than 6-8 optical modules to concurrently present steady video see-through AR companies to customers. In comparability, an iPhone requires as much as 3 optical modules working concurrently and doesn’t require steady computing.

The use of an M1-caliber processor can even improve the headset’s potential capabilities serving to to set it other than what the competitors’s merchandise can do. But extra importantly, as has been evident with different digital and augmented actuality merchandise, shoppers don’t actually desire a headset that’s depending on different costly {hardware}. The Oculus Go and Quest merchandise have been big hits and never simply because they have been reasonably priced. Neither require a gaming PC or high-end smartphone to work. Unlike the Apple Watch that’s basically a wrist-worn second display screen for the iPhone, an AR or ML headset ought to present a wholly completely different expertise, and from the sounds of it, that’s what Apple is planning to supply late subsequent yr.