How Apple AR Smartglasses Will Change The World You See?

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The tech industry experts reveal that Apple may soon introduce its AR Smartglasses in the market in 2017. These Augmented Reality or Mixed Reality smarglasses will be different than the Virtual Reality or VR glasses that are already in the market. VR glasses offer completely immersive experience in the VR world while the AR glasses overlays digital aspects over the reality - and hence, have the power to change the world you see.

The Forbes magazine claims that the veteran tech journalist Robert Scoble has confirmed the news on his Facebook page. Scoble stated that he interviewed an employee from Carl Zeiss AG (lens specialist from Germany) who confirmed that his company is working with Apple on a light pair of AR smartglasses that might get launched in 2017.

In November 2016 too, at WebSummit, Scoble had claimed that he had interviewed someone from PrimeSense - a 3D sensing company which was acquired by Apple in 2013. The source from PrimeSense revealed that the company that originally created tech for the Xbox Kinect is now working on a 3D sensor for Apple. 600 engineers in Israel are working on the sensor which will change the future of TV in next 11 months.

He also said that Tim Cook and Steve Jobs had planned to build the PrimeSense sensor into the television, iPad and iPhone...and introduce the world to the possibility of mixed reality.

In the CES 2017, Google Glass created a huge buzz. It is an AR project too. Microsoft is also working on an AR smartglass called Hololens while the startup called Magic Leap is also doing a similar project.

The Newsweek also reported that the Apple has been working on its own pair of augmented reality glasses. It also claimed that the potential launch date of the Apple's AR device could be in September 2017, during the annual iPhone launch event.

Though the Scoble's claims have not been confirmed officially by the Apple, the tech giant has been reportedly employing noted AR and VR specialists in the recent months. These include Yury Petrov (who was a research scientist at Oculus), Zeyu Li (who used to work at Magic Leap), and Doug Bowman (who had received a$ 100,000 grant from Microsoft to study Mixed Reality data to be used with the company's HoloLens holographic headset).

Check out an Augmented Reality demo of Minecraft game by Microsoft Hololens: