Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, March 8th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

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All right, all right, all right.

This is a more reasonable rumor that I can get behind.

According to our good buddy Ming Chicoo,

Apple plans to release a mixed reality headset

as soon as next summer.

Better even than that is that he figures it will price around the $1,000 range.

Then, Apple's master playbook goes as follows according to Quo.

Serious, mainstream targeting AR glasses by 2025, and then, geez, even I haven't thought

this ambitiously, he claims Apple wants contact lens type devices available by the 2030s quoting Mac rumors.

We predict that Apple's MR AR product roadmap includes three phases

helmet type by 2022 glasses glasses type by 2025, and contact lens type by 2030,

2040, wrote Quo. We foresee that the helmet product will provide AR and VR experiences while glasses

and contact lens types of products are more likely to focus on AR applications.

Quo said several prototypes of Apple's Mixed Reality headset currently weigh in the 200 to 300 grams range,

but he said that the final weight will be reduced to 100 to 200 grams if Apple can solve technical

problems which would be significantly lighter than many existing

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