Apple Develop Software To Help MR Headset Users Create AR Applications

Illustration headset. (photo: dock. Pixabay)

JAKARTA - Apple Inc is developing software to help users of the upcoming headset mixed-reality (MR), in building their own augmented reality app. This was first reported by ole Information on Friday, January 27 citing the four people working on the headset.

Meanwhile, according to a Bloomberg News report, Apple is also in talks with about half a dozen media partners including Walt Disney Co to develop virtual reality content for its MR headset.

But the iPhone maker did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters on the media report.

Mixed reality is one of three types of extended reality technologies often associated with the metaverse. The MR headset allows users to use real-world objects to trigger cyber reactions.

Apple's mixed reality headset (Mixed Reality, MR) works by combining elements from virtual reality and real reality into an integrated experience. MR uses the same technology as virtual reality (VR), but also adds elements from the real world through an integrated camera.

Some of the ways that Apple's MR headsets might use to combine elements of virtual and real reality are, the use of cameras to capture images from the real world and showcase them in the virtual world.

Then there is the use of sensors to track the user's body movements and adjust the virtual world according to these movements. Next there is a projector to display virtual images in the real world.

In addition, there is also the use of facial and voice recognition technology to integrate human interactions with the virtual world.

The iPhone maker's MR headset will launch at this spring event and will cost around $3.000.

That price will double the virtual reality headset and Meta Platforms Inc production mix, Quest Pro, which launched late last year for $1,500.