Last Updated: July 14, 2023, 18:34 IST
Apple Vision Pro faces challenges earlier than its launch
The first blended actuality headset has plenty of {hardware} beneath the hood which can be powering the visionOS platform.
Appleās upcoming AR (augmented actuality) headset Vision Pro will reportedly characteristic a brand new sort of dynamic random entry reminiscence (DRAM) that has been customized to assist Appleās R1 enter processing chip.
Apple Vision Pro is powered by a pair of chips, together with an M2 chip and an R1 chip, in line with MacRumors. The Korea Herald first reported the information.
The M2 chip is accountable for processing content material, working the visionOS working system, executing laptop imaginative and prescient algorithms, and offering graphical content material, whereas the R1 chip processes all info from the headsetās 12 cameras, 5 sensors, and 6 microphones and streams photos to the shows in 12 milliseconds.
To meet the R1ās excessive-pace calls for, the headset will use a 1-gigabit low latency DRAM chip provided by SK hynix, which has an elevated variety of enter and output pins to scale back delays, the report stated.
Appleās $3,500 headset is ready to go on sale early subsequent yr, starting within the US.
Meanwhile, Apple has reportedly slashed Vision Pro Mixed Reality (MR) headset manufacturing plans amid manufacturing challenges in China.
According to a report in The Financial Times, citing sources, Apple has reportedly requested its major Vision Pro assembler Luxshare to make fewer than 400,000 models subsequent yr.
It is reportedly down from an preliminary inside gross sales goal of 1 million.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – IANS)
