Apple analyst Kuo says low-end VR headset to launch in 2025

Top Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo said successful a blog post connected Friday that Apple plans to merchandise "low-end" and "high-end" second-generation augmented reality/mixed world headsets successful 2025.

Apple has not yet announced oregon adjacent acknowledged the beingness of plans to motorboat a virtual world headset. But Bloomberg has reported extensively connected the tech giant's strategy and precocious said the institution plans to denote its archetypal headset successful June, aft reportedly facing delays.

The archetypal exemplary is expected to outgo astir $3,000 according to Bloomberg, which means Kuo's study of a aboriginal "low-end" exemplary could awesome that a much affordable mentation is connected the way. That would assistance Apple entreaty to a larger idiosyncratic basal that whitethorn not beryllium consenting to walk thousands of dollars for the archetypal mentation of the AR headset. And it shows Apple could beryllium utilizing a akin strategy arsenic it does with its different merchandise lines.

It sells, for example, the high-end Apple Watch Ultra but besides much affordable Apple Watch and Apple Watch SE bid devices. Similarly, it sells AirPods Pro and regular AirPods, and pro versions of its Macs and iPads alongside much affordable options.

Kuo said Luxcaseict — a associated task betwixt Pegatron and Luxshare — and Foxconn volition make and nutrient the headsets.

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