Check out: Qualcomm vs Apple: What’s that all about? Even though the expected AR headset is far from being independent, it will still have sensors to detect activities in the surrounding, display, and chips for other purposes. Similar to other smartphone powered AR headsets, the upcoming AR headset will be light and will probably be paired by Bluetooth to your smartphone. In line with Kuo’s prediction via 9to5Mac, the AR headset will be like Apple’s first generation of smartwatches that relied on the iPhone for most of the processing work, location determination and more. If this is true, iPhone batteries which are not so stellar before will be heavily drained due to the bulk of additional computation that has to be done. See: What is Virtual reality (VR) and how different is it from Augmented Reality(AR) This is Apple’s first venture into AR headsets/glasses manufacturing and while we hope they’ve done their research well and have another desirable Apple accessory in the works. Asides that, another question is if there are users out there are willing to shell out money for an AR headset that will probably rely on their smartphone for its functions.
