Apple was reported around mid-June to have got AR glasses and an advanced HMD with a stunning display in the works. The rumour first carried by Patently Apple gathers weigh due to several patent filings the company had engaged in over the two subject matters.
Apple has now reportedly commenced trial production of the AR Glasses in one of Foxconn Technology’s factories. According to digital media outfit The Information, the Cupertino-based company is teaming up with Foxconn Technology to develop semi-transparent lenses for its AR devices. The Taiwanese manufacturing firm is Apple’s largest contract manufacturer and the one responsible for building most iPhones, to develop semi-transparent lenses for its AR devices.
Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital content and information onto the physical world — as if they’re actually there with you, in your own space. The lenses are considered as one of the most important components of the devices that would be worn on the head. The report quotes a source familiar with the matter to have disclosed that the lenses passed the prototype stage and entered trial production about two months ago.
The source also hinted that the AR lenses have been in development by Foxconn for about three years. This was the same period the US tech giant acquired Colorado-based startup Akonia Holographicscthat utilized a liquid-crystal-on-silicon display to project images inside its proprietary lenses. It is not certain if the AR glasses would feature any of Akonia’s technology.
We have no idea when these AR glasses would be launch but whenever itis, we expect the product to revolutionize the industry just as that AirPods did to the hearable market.
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