formally Apple has n’t told us what it will be announcing atWWDC 2023on June 5 , but there are clues if you know where to look . The latest and most vociferous of these is the fact that a number of XR ( or ‘ widen reality ’ ) publications have been invited to the tonic for the first time .
On Tuesday , the industry news siteRoad To VRrevealed that it had been invited to attend Apple ’s summer event in mortal , and that fellow XR siteUploadVRhad too . Neither site has gone to WWDC antecedently , and the former notes that “ Apple has historically not invited XR medium to its events , allow alone commented in any manner on its XR R&D. ”
XR encompasses three categories of engineering : practical realness , augment reality , and sundry realism , which covers hybrid gadget that save both the late types . Apple ’s rumoredReality Pro headsetis expect to sit in the third class , with a Digital Crown - style dial to switch seamlessly between VR and AR .
Reality Pro has reportedly been in ontogenesis hell for long time , and multiple fourth dimension it has been expected to found imminently only to hit a delay at the last instant . Most lately , the headset was wide expect to be the central drawing card at Apple ’s outflow 2023 event ; the fact that it was n’t ready in fourth dimension may explicate why the ship’s company settle not to have a outflow event at all .
( by the bye , if Apple ’s design squad had their way , the headset would n’t be establish before 2024 at the earliest . They are understand to have tell Tim Cook that the engineering was n’t ready yet , but heoverruled them . )
But now , sure enough , the clock time has come . Thetrademarkshave been registered , the XR reporters are book their flights , and the project’skey playersare practise their lines . This is n’t a drill . It ’s in reality happening , people .
