Apple may launch glasses in 2020, car in 2023, says analyst
Two years from now we could be viewing the world through Apple augmented reality glasses – and driving Apple cars on our roads three years later
Apple could release augmented reality glasses by 2020, and a car three to five years after that, highly-respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted in a TF Securities research note distributed on Tuesday.
Kuo’s research has a strong track record of accurately describing Apple products often months before they officially launch.
In the speculative note, seen by Business Insider, Kuo discusses how Apple could reach a US$2 trillion market cap after it reached the US$1 trillion mark earlier this month.
“Services, AR, and Apple Car will create Apple’s next trillion-dollar market cap,” he wrote in the research note.
Augmented reality, combining the digital and physical worlds through smartglasses, is going to become Apple’s next major user interface, he predicts, like how the iPhone introduced multi-touch touch screens.
“We predict that AR is the next-generation revolutionary UI; we therefore think that AR does not need any killer applications given it is a killer application already,” he wrote in the note.
“We expect Apple will redefine the UIs of existing products by offering an AR experience created by the AR glass, which will likely be launched in 2020,” he continued.