{"id":450312,"date":"2022-06-27T11:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=450312"},"modified":"2022-06-27T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T09:54:25","slug":"apples-mixed-reality-headset-could-pack-an-m2-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/450312-apples-mixed-reality-headset-could-pack-an-m2-chip.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s mixed reality headset could pack an M2 chip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s mixed-reality headset could feature the tech giant’s flagship M2 chip, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He said the latest version of Apple’s headset includes a base M2 chip and 16GB of RAM, contrary to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s belief that it would have a chip similar to the M1.<\/p>\n

Gurman added that Apple is already working on the M2’s successor, the M3, adding that the company plans to use the new chip in several Mac models next year.<\/p>\n

In comparison, Facebook-owner Meta’s all-in-one Quest 2 headset features 6GB of RAM and the Snapdragon XR2 Platform.<\/p>\n

Gurman reported that Apple intended to unveil its VR headset during its 2022 Worldwide Developers Conference in June.<\/p>\n

However, he said in January that the company was considering holding back on the reveal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While the tech giant didn’t reveal the headset, Gurman said it gave several software-related clues relating to the headset’s operating system \u2014 RealityOS \u2014 and its features.<\/p>\n

In November 2021, Kuo said that the headset would be independent of any iOS and MacOS device and include a pair of processors<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He said the main processor would be similar to Apple’s M1 chip, while the second, less-powerful unit is designed to handle all sensor-related computing.<\/p>\n

“Apple’s AR headset requires a separate processor as the computing power of the sensor is significantly higher than that of the iPhone,” Kuo said.<\/p>\n

“The AR headset requires at least 6-8 optical modules to simultaneously provide continuous video see-through AR services to users.”<\/p>\n

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Apple’s mixed reality headset will likely feature the company’s M2 chip and 16GB of RAM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":428920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,11925,67763,76740],"class_list":["post-450312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-augmented-reality","tag-m1-chip","tag-m2-chip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450338,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450312\/revisions\/450338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}