Apple will unveil iPhone 11 next week alongside the new Apple Watch models. They are not the only products that the bitten apple is developing, however.
Some may be introduced in the near future, and I'm not referring to the new 2019 iPad Pro models that will be announced in October, but to a new series of AR glasses. Yes, the infamous Apple Glasses augmented reality devices.
Remember the Apple Glasses?
For a while they threw agencies (and competitors) around the world into panic, appearing here and there in various rumors about the Cupertino company. Their launch was scheduled for early 2020 when the device went missing on radar. Since then, the augmented reality capabilities of Apple have been introduced and tested on an increasingly regular basis. The test platform is obviously the flagship operating system, that iOS prodigal of (small, sometimes tiny) constant innovations.
In short, iOS13 is an operating system that would easily handle the management of a device like Apple Glasses. The device is initially intended to work in necessary combination with an iPhone and not yet capable of working alone (a bit like the first versions of the Apple Watch).
The clue
A few days after the release of the final version of iOS 13, the MacRumors portal has inspected a developer version of the operating system. There he came across a small app STARTester able to switch the operating system to headset mode, "probably to replicate the functionality of an augmented reality helmet, or in any case a wearable device". The test app contains two types of configurations, "worn" (worn) and "held" (held), which suggests that this is an accessory that can be put on and taken off. Eyeglasses!
