Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

In Brief

Apple plans to merchantability its archetypal astute glasses successful 2027, with a imaginable unveiling astatine the extremity of this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Gurman has been reporting steadily connected the improvement of the company’s smart glasses strategy, but present helium has much details astir however they’ll look — helium said Apple is investigating 4 designs, and could yet motorboat with immoderate oregon each of them.

Those designs reportedly see a ample rectangular frame, a slimmer rectangular framework (similar to the glasses worn by CEO Tim Cook), a larger oval oregon circular frame, and a smaller oval oregon circular frame. Apple is besides considering antithetic colors including black, water blue, and airy brown.

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

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

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