{"id":164410,"date":"2023-05-23T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/apple-readies-launch-of-3000-headset-will-it-succeed-where-others-have-failed"},"modified":"2023-05-23T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:24:10","slug":"apple-readies-launch-of-3000-headset-will-it-succeed-where-others-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/apple-readies-launch-of-3000-headset-will-it-succeed-where-others-have-failed","title":{"rendered":"Apple readies launch of $3,000 headset: Will it succeed where others have failed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apple-readies-launch-of-3000-headset-will-it-succeed-where-others-have-failed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple Inc.\u2019s annual WWDC developers\u2019 conference is fast approaching \u2014 and this one promises to be a bit more eventful than most, as the consumer-electronics giant is expected to debut its long-awaited mixed-reality headset.<\/p>\n<p>The company hasn\u2019t made a major product introduction since it rolled out the Apple Watch in 2015, but with an expensive headset supporting augmented and virtual reality, Apple AAPL,-0.88% will be entering into a market that has so far failed to catch on in a mainstream way. Meta Platforms Inc. META, +0.85% has bet big on virtual reality with its Oculus headset, with only limited traction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc.\u2019s annual WWDC developers\u2019 conference is fast approaching \u2014 and this one promises to be a bit more eventful than most, as the consumer-electronics giant is expected to debut its long-awaited mixed-reality headset. The company hasn\u2019t made a major product introduction since it rolled out the Apple Watch in 2015, but with an expensive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}