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The latest leaks about theAppleAR/VR headset, most likely called theApple Reality Pro, make it sound very like the originalApple Watchor even the firstApple iPad. Like those devices, it seems that Apple is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks: it hasn’t quite worked out what we’re going to want to use the device for, so it’s going to use early adopters as guinea pigs. But the killer app may already be in Apple’s labs.
None of these sound like the kind of killer app that’ll drive headset sales. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
Could 3D sports be the Apple headset killer app?
The Patently Apple website has spent many years tracking Apple patents and also the companies it purchases, and as it pointsoutone of those purchases is a VR company: NextVR, which Apple acquired in 2020. And that’s really interesting, because NextVR was making tech to put you right in the middle of massive sporting events via 3D streaming video.
Apple is investing heavily in streaming live sports including Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer, and code in theiOS16.5 beta included a YouTube-style “multi view” experience enabling you to switch between different cameras during streaming sports. Multiview is nice enough on a two-dimensional screen, but the prospect of actual 3D video in the AR/VR headset sounds pretty exciting – and has applications beyond sports. I’m not really into sports, but I’d love to experience rock concerts in VR.
This is still speculation, as we won’t know for sure what the Apple AR/VR headset will do until it launches – and if the iPad andApple Watchare any guide, it’ll take some time after that for the headset’s strengths to become clear and the best apps to emerge. But this year’sWWDCis certainly going to be interesting.
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