Två stycken 8K-skärmar samt en hel hög med tracking-kameror inkluderat i paketet, kommer enligt ett envist rykte innebära att Apples kommande mixed reality-hjälm kommer att kosta 3000 dollar (28 000 spänn!). Amerikanska techblaskan Engadget har massor av "läckt" information om prylen, och då låter det ungefär såhär:
"The Information believes that the device is in the later stages of development and could ship as soon as 2022. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple's first headset isn't targeted at a wide audience — its price point is rumored to come in around $3,000. Given the hardware specs quoted in today's report, that's not unreasonable, but it's clear that this is less a device for consumers and more a competitor to Microsoft's $3,500 Hololens 2. That headset is focused on business customers more than something the average consumer would use. Based on images of a "late-stage prototype" from 2020 that The Information saw, Apple's headset is similar to a traditional VR headset in that it blocks the outside world fully and puts the wearer into a fully virtual environment; the cameras will be used to give a few of the outside world. In this way, it sounds like the headset can function as a true virtual reality device as well as an augmented reality option that combines real world views with virtual details. Those cameras will enable the device to track eye movements as well as hand gestures. It'll also have LiDAR sensors, like those found on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPad Pro, to help measure the distance between objects in the real world and properly scale and present virtual objects in a real-world space." Länk
Spännande! Och ja, med tanke på att Apple idag kräver 10 000 kronor för ett helt vanligt monitorstativ till deras Pro-skärm, anser vi på Gamereactor att detta rykte snarare känns lite billigt.