Will the Apple VR program be launched in the year, together with IPhone8?

A patent for the iphone-capable head-mounted display system, according to a patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, covers Apple's invention of a head-mounted device that can hold an iphone for display, which may be related to Apple's VR. It has been planning to launch VR products for quite a long time, CES2017 on the Carl Zeiss has revealed that it is working with Apple to develop VR glasses, the fastest launch this year.

In terms of hardware, Apple is ready to do this. Last year, Apple released the A10 processor's GPU performance, according to Gfxbench Test IPhone7 Manhattan off-screen reached 56.5, more than the Android chip boss Qualcomm 820 's GPU performance slightly higher, using the Dragon 820 Samsung Galaxy The Note7 Manhattan off screen is 53.

GPU performance is critical for VR, and higher GPU performance can be quickly processed for graphics to get a better experience. Samsung, which occupies nearly 70% of the market share in the VR market in 2016, is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chip in the mobile GPU market, and the GPU performance of A10 processors exceeds that of Dragon 820, which is undoubtedly the key hardware indicator. The GPU performance of the IPhone8 powered A11 processor will be higher than A10 Hairon 820, enabling VR to be better.

For VR, another important hardware is the use of OLED screen, because the OLED screen has a high refresh rate and low latency, so it is considered the most suitable for VR screen, and before this year's IPhone8 listing Apple has been using LCD screen, is not suitable to support VR products, This year's IPhone8 will introduce OLED screens, so IPhone8 is suitable for VR products.

The patent issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that the internal iphone can be controlled via buttons and touch points on the outside of the helmet, and the message revealed by Carl Zeiss means that Apple's VR product is similar to Samsung's Gear VR by putting the phone into VR glasses to watch the video , but this patent shows that Apple's VR further reduces the data line, avoids the data line procrastination, the operation is simpler.

If so, it is likely that Apple's VR products will be listed with IPhone8. Last year Samsung boosted the sale of its Galaxy S7 edge handsets with VR sales, and Apple's iphone shipments last year came on its first annual decline since the iphone was launched, and is hoping to boost its iphone shipments by more means. Now IPhone8 has enough hardware to support VR and ARVR cloud design, and it is reasonable to launch Apple's own VR product to pull IPhone8 's sales.

Samsung's VR shipments last year were said to exceed 4 million, the launch of VR has also boosted Samsung's brand influence, so far in the mobile VR market Samsung Gear VR is the best product, due to its advantages in the field has not yet other Android phone companies have the strength to challenge it.

Apple has the ability to compete with Samsung VR, and in the past it often can do better than other peers in the same industry, so I think that Apple's VR products may challenge the Samsung VR, to bring new impetus to the mobile VR market.

Will the Apple VR program be launched in the year, together with IPhone8?