Apple Glass concept video reveals a must-have iPhone accessory

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Apple Glass concept video reveals a must-have iPhone accessory

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The Apple Spectacles AR lenses are even so at least a year abroad, but a new concept video has us excited for its potential.

The video by "the hacker 34" (via iMore), shows usa around the rumored features of the Apple Spectacles. There'south basically no concrete information to go off of other than leaks, but this video does a good job of making the Spectacles seem like a tangible product.

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Popping upwardly in a carte much like the one currently used for pairing AirPods, the Glasses then get introduced, with Hacker 34 giving us a breakup of the components, which bear familiar Apple brandings similar Retina for the lens displays, a LiDAR scanner like the one on the iPad Pro (and probably the iPhone 12 Pro, also) and a new kind of Apple tree chipset, the Yard-series, to run everything.

rOS, every bit Hacker 34 has named the Spectacles' operating system, uses swipes, either on the frame or in forepart of you where the Spectacles' cameras tin run across, to navigate through the heads-up display style interface, popping your into the centre or back into the top right corner when y'all don't need them.

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The iOS 14-style widgets and unobtrusive notifications brand an appearance here, featuring all the usual suspects when information technology comes to default Apple apps. The interface also has an automated night mode for when it gets night out, important since you're unable to look away from a too-bright screen if yous're wearing it in front of your confront.

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Find My iPhone and Apple Maps navigation become shown off in the video, the old assuasive the user to enquire Siri to display where the telephone is, and fix a path towards it. We're expecting Apple to reveal its AirTags trackers to the world by the end of the year, which will serve a similar purpose, only it looks then much cooler when you're doing it in first person with this concept. The Maps function works similarly, except taking you towards a geographic location with arrows overlaid on your field of view.

(Image credit: the Hacker 34)

At the end of the video there'due south as well a teaser for a 'Steve Jobs Edition', replacing the square frames of the normal spectacles with circular frames similar to the glasses worn by Apple tree'southward famous co-founder. As a final little joke, a message from Craig Federighi, Apple'due south senior VP of software engineering, reveals the toll of the glasses as $499. This is the effigy FrontPage Tech'due south Jon Prosser revealed.

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Dates for the actual debut of the Apple Glasses range between mid-2021 and 2023. Whenever they do appear, hopefully they are every bit competent as Hacker 34's video makes them await.

Richard is a Tom's Guide staff writer based in London, covering news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, audio and whatever else people demand communication on. Post-obit on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he'south also written for WIRED U.K., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at piece of work, he's likely thinking almost how to brew the perfect loving cup of specialty coffee.

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