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by throwaway316943 1966 days ago
I agree that the 8k displays sound ambitious but they may have some tricks up their sleeves if they are doing foveated rendering using eye tracking. I think they’ll primarily focus on VR but they may do AR via camera pass through. They graphics in VR mode will be much better than what your claiming though, current stand alone headsets like the Quest 2 have good enough graphics to create a sense of immersion where you forget that what you’re interacting with isn’t actually there. That’s more than enough for virtual meetings and office spaces. If they can nail the facial animations by tracking eye and mouth movement so that non verbal communication crosses the gap they’ll have a winner. The current offerings for meeting and social apps in VR are almost there so Apple has a good shot at pushing it over the line.