Apple’s Mixed Reality headset can also use a hybrid Fresnel lens layout to live under a hundred and fifty grams.
Thanks to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, some more fantastic data about Apple’s rumoured Mixed Reality headset had hit the web. In a brand new record via way of Kuo, it’s been referred to that Apple can also adopt a hybrid Fresnel lens layout for its combined reality headset. This meant to improve overall optical performance similarly to turning in a broad area of view. It likewise stated to maintain the weight of the headset under a hundred and fifty grams.
Kuo adds (via MacRumors) that the use of Fresnel lenses isn’t new. These had been invented a few two hundred years in the past and being utilized in numerous headsets. However, those headsets have a bulky footprint and weigh about 300-400 grams. But in Apple’s case, the Mixed Reality headset, which is meant to release next year, can also have a light-weight layout with a smaller area of view (FOV) as they don’t require a greater immersive enjoy as what’s there in actual digital reality headsets.
The hybrid Fresnel lens, which stated for use in Apple’s unannounced Mixed Reality headset, is stated to be composed of 3 stacked Fresnel lenses so it may obtain a thin and light layout. Each headset stated to apply a total of six Fresnel lenses (3 in keeping with an eye) at the side of light-weight plastic lenses.
“The motive of this layout is to enhance FOV and decrease weight and thickness. We agree that Apple will use a hybrid Fresnel lens layout in addition to beautify the Fresnel lens’s optical overall performance (e.g., enhance vignetting and optical artifacts), and every hybrid Fresnel lens comprises three stacked Fresnel lenses. We consider that Apple’s layout will obtain higher stability among HMD’s FOV and form factor,” stated the record.
The lenses are probably supplied via way of means of Young Optics and won’t be cheap. It can also bring about the headsets getting an excessive standard charge tag.
Apple reportedly has a couple of Mixed Reality headsets underworks, and the primary one stated to arrive in mid-2022. An augmented reality headset likewise rumoured for 2025.