Welcome to the Tech Me Right Home for Monday, January 9th, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Mark Germin tells us when Apple's reality

pro headset will be announced, made available to developers, and made available to consumers.

Valve's steam gaming platform is breaking records.

John Deere will let you repair your $100,000 smart tractor, a literal think pad for smartphones, and why one

big buzzword was largely missing from CES this year.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Mark Germin Apple Scoop Monday.

In his weekly newsletter, Germin reports that Apple plans to unveil its reality pro headset. that seems to be the name, this spring announcing it before

W.W.C. he also says that the new Mac Pro that we all think is coming will end up looking a lot like the 2019 model

but will also lose user-upgradable RAM, quoting the man himself.

Apple, after seven years of development, is nearly ready to launch its first mixed reality

headset. But the focus on this new product will lead to an otherwise muted 2023 for the rest

of the Apple lineup. Up until fairly recently Apple had aimed to

introduce the headset in January 2023 and ship it later this year. Now the

company is aiming to unveil it this spring ahead of the annual Worldwide

Developers Conference in June, I'm told.

Apple has already shared the device with a small number of high profile software

developers for testing, letting them get started on third-party apps.

The device

the device's operating system dubbed Borealis, inside the company will be publicly named XR-O-S.

With the current plan,

Apple could introduce the device to consumers

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