Apple Reportedly Testing Four Designs For Upcoming Smart Glasses

In Brief

Apple plans to waste its first smart glasses successful 2027, pinch a imaginable unveiling astatine nan extremity of this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Gurman has been reporting steadily connected nan improvement of nan company’s smart glasses strategy, but now he has much specifications astir really they’ll look — he said Apple is testing 4 designs, and could yet motorboat pinch immoderate aliases each of them.

Those designs reportedly see a ample rectangular frame, a slimmer rectangular framework (similar to nan glasses worn by CEO Tim Cook), a larger oval aliases information frame, and a smaller oval aliases information frame. Apple is besides considering different colors including black, water blue, and ray brown.

In immoderate ways, these glasses are a measurement backmost from an eager scheme that erstwhile called for Apple to motorboat a assortment of mixed and augmented reality devices — a scheme that already stumbled pinch merchandise delays and the lackluster reception of nan Vision Pro.

These glasses, meanwhile, sound person to nan Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses. They won’t person immoderate displays, but will let users to return photos and videos (Apple is reportedly oval camera lenses), reply telephone calls, play music, and interact pinch the long-promised Siri upgrade.

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