Apple and Meta set to launch high-end VR headsets – Hypergrid Enterprise

Apple and Meta will quickly be going head-to-head within the high-end digital actuality headset area — and at enterprise worth factors.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the brand new Apple augmented and digital actuality headset may very well be known as Apple Actuality Professional and will likely be launched someday in January 2023.

Apple’s headset could ship with a worth above $2000, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo advised Macrumors.

The Apple Actuality Professional is about to compete in opposition to Meta’s Venture Cambria –also called Meta Quest Pro.

It appears just like the Meta Quest Professional is popping out earlier than the Apple Actuality Professional and will likely be unveiled tomorrow Tuesday, October 11, at Meta Connect 2022, based on Mark Zuckerberg himself.

A leak from AR and VR YouTuber Brad Lynch has the Meta Quest Professional popping out on October 25, 2022, at a hefty price tag of $1,500.

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These headsets usually are not meant for the common shopper. Each corporations are gearing the high-end headsets towards enterprise prospects.

However the identical expertise might make it into mass-market headsets in some unspecified time in the future, with the proper distribution channels and a few assist, Apple and Meta may acquire traction with the {hardware}.

“Like with smartphones, it looks like for Apple and Meta to search out mass adaptation for his or her VR gadgets, they’re going to need to faucet into companions like Verizon, T-Cell, and different cell carriers that promote their {hardware} tied into cell and information plans,” stated Rolf Illenberger, founder and managing director of VRdirect, producer of digital actuality software program options for enterprise customers.

Even at seemingly excessive worth factors, enterprise gamers could need to buy the headsets to make use of in digital actuality enterprise functions.

“There would be the expectation that an Apple VR system works with the identical seamless high quality as each different Apple system,” Illenberger advised Hypergrid Enterprise.

Whether or not enterprise corporations and their staff will absolutely embrace working with enterprise headsets stays to be seen.