Apple is rumoured to launch its own mixed-reality headset in 2023, and the latest reports indicate Cupertino is nearing completion.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company’s biggest challenge is content and software, and there are now job openings in the Technology Development Group, which is working on the headset.
Former and current executives are being relocated to the Oak mixed-reality project.
Former Apple senior manager Dave Scott, who worked on the self-driving car team, has been hired to join the headset team.
Yaniv Gur, who has been a senior director of engineering at Apple for 20 years, is also being redirected to “develop a suite of productivity apps.”
Apple is looking for people who can create “tools and frameworks to enable connected experiences in a 3D mixed-reality world,” as well as “digital content for augmented- and virtual-reality environments.”
The new mixed-reality headset will most likely compete with Facebook’s metaverse. This product’s launch next year will be extremely expensive, and it will initially target professional users and developers.
While Apple has reduced hiring in response to broader economic uncertainty, the company is still looking for people to join teams working on the mixed-reality headset and other AR/VR technologies.
Apple continues to make changes to the team working on the headset, which is known as Apple’s “Technology Development Group,” or TDG.
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