A number of trademark filings noticed by Bloomberg over the weekend assist the notion that Apple’s long-rumored combined actuality headset will probably be working below the ‘Actuality’ naming scheme.
Trademark purposes had been filed earlier this month within the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay for 3 names: Actuality One, Actuality Professional, and Actuality Processor, Bloomberg stories.
The primary two could differentiate courses of the rumored MR headset, very like iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Professional, whereas ‘Actuality Processor’ could possibly be the platform’s SoC. The report maintains Apple could also be utilizing a M2 SoC with 16 GB of reminiscence.
Moreover, Bloomberg stories Apple’s MR headset will give attention to VR variations of apps like Maps and FaceTime, completely different social apps, and media apps for “sports activities and flicks in VR and gaming.” The emblems additionally embody a “health-related capabilities” characteristic.
Not one of the purposes are registered to Apple by title—many had been filed by ‘Immersive Well being Options’—nonetheless the corporate sometimes makes use of shell firms and small regulation corporations throughout the globe to obfuscate its connection to forthcoming merchandise. On the time of this writing are nonetheless marked as “pending”.
A trademark filed earlier this yr which was attributed to Apple seemingly staked its declare to the title ‘realityOS’, or what could possibly be the corporate’s combined actuality working system. The trademark was initially filed simply two months earlier than ‘realityOS’ started exhibiting up in Apple supply code.
As per common, Apple hasn’t stated something official or launched any point out of its forthcoming MR headset from its black field headquarters in Cupertino. What we do know is predicated on stories, so take the next data with a grain of salt.
Apple’s first headset, which like Meta’s Undertaking Cambria (presumably named Quest Professional), is claimed to characteristic VR shows and coloration passthrough cameras which is able to enable it to do augmented actuality duties—i.e. making it a combined actuality headset. Right here’s what we (assume) we learn about Apple’s MR headset, codenamed N301.
Comply with-up gadgets are stated to incorporate a headset codenamed N602, and a correct pair of AR glasses codenamed N421. Bloomberg maintains these gadgets could arrive someday later this decade.