Apple hires Meta's former communication lead to work on their unannounced AR project

Apple is working on the most advanced chips for its unannounced AR/VR headset and now a new report has claimed that the iPhone maker has hired Andrea Schubert, Meta’s communications lead for its Augmented Reality (AR) products.

“Meta, with Oculus, has been the market leader in headsets, so such a hire makes sense as Apple nears its launch,” report noted.

On both Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year, Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 was one of the top-selling products. Not to mention that Meta’s Oculus app topped the App Store in the U.S. on Christmas Day, and became the number one free app on the Google Play store today, a potential sign that a significant amount of people received the headset as a gift this holiday.

The latest rumors suggest that the headset would come with multiple highly sensitive 3D sensing modules in order to offer innovative hand tracking.

The structured light sensors can detect objects in the hands, comparable to how Face ID is able to figure out facial expressions to generate Animoji.

It will have two processors, one with the same level of computing power as M1 along with a lower-end chip to handle input from different sensors.

The headset may come with at least six-eight optical modules to simultaneously provide continuous video see-through AR services. The device is also said to have two 4K OLED microdisplay from Sony.