Apple It has canceled a project aimed at building some augmented reality lenses (RA) that would initially operate connected to the MAC computer and knew themselves internally as N107, as Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman has recently advanced.
The firm of Cupertino launched Apple Vision Pro a year ago, a device that combines augmented reality and virtual reality (RV), with an interface created from scratch that collects the design language of iOS and macOS to consume multimedia content.
To bring the technology of this team, which is sold for $ 3,499, to a broader audience the company began working on more economical models, which they referred to with the name in N107 code, as Gurman advanced a few months ago .
The Bloomberg editor then pointed out that this other Model would be put on sale at a lower price than that of its current lenses, would range between $ 1,500 and $ 2,500.
Now, Gurman has advanced whatE Apple has canceled this projectas confirmed by people related to the company, who have pointed out that the product looks similar to that of normal lenses, with integrated screens. These could show information, images and videos in the field of vision destined for each eye, a format similar to the RA glasses developed by competing companies, as a goal.
These sources have said that Apple has made the decision to paralyze the N107 project after trying to renew its design, since initially the technology sought to combine them with an iPhone, A device that could not provide the desired processing power.
Then, Apple chose to link them to MAC teams, which have more powerful processors and batteries with greater capacity. However, during their tests found that I was not obtaining the desired resultswhich would have pushed him to make the decision to cancel his development.