As we get nearer to the discharge of Apple’s AR/VR headset, the launch date appears to be getting additional and additional away. What was as soon as a doable January occasion, then a spring occasion, then a WWDC announcement, may now be connected to the iPhone 15 occasion in September.

Based on a tweet by Ming-Chi Kuo, the probability of a spring announcement of the headset is “lowering,” whereas “the chance of the headset launch alongside iPhone 15 in 3Q23 is rising.” If the headset is unveiled in September, Kuo says Apple remains to be planning to ship the headset earlier than the top of 2023.

In a separate weblog put up, Kuo shares some details about the event of future generations of the headset. As reported beforehand, he says the second-gen has “two high-end and low-end fashions” scheduled to launch in 2025. Whereas the first-gen headset will reportedly have a particularly excessive price ticket of at the very least $3,000, the second-gen mannequin is predicted to value a lot much less.

The iPhone occasion is not any stranger to main bulletins. Again in 2014, Apple used the stage to unveil the Apple Watch alongside the iPhone 6, and in 2016, the AirPods arrived with the headphone jack-less iPhone 7. The long-rumored headset will probably be Apple’s first really new product class in a few years. It’s anticipated to be a particularly high-end machine with a pair of high-resolution OLED 4K shows, superior head- and eye-tracking expertise, gesture enter, an M2 processor, and a 3D interface.