When is Apple finally going to enter the smart mask market?

[subjonas]

Will.i.am is making a $300 smart mask ?

Will.i.am is selling a smart face mask called Xupermask for $299

Rapper will.i.am wants to make face masks a high-end, high-tech statement.

www.msn.com

It seems to just be a hepa filter mask with built in fans (not sure why), decorative lights, and the smart aspect is just built in bluetooth noise cancelling earphones and microphone. And I think it straps all the way around the back of the head.
I don’t think this solves anything but it looks kinda cool like from a sci-fi movie lol.
Would you buy something like this from Apple? ?

If masks were here to stay, I could see Apple eventually doing something like incorporating AR glasses into a mask like this (probably minus the lights and fans). It would afford the glasses a much bigger battery.

 

[ericwn]

Maybe they’ll take it a step further and just make a motorcycle helmet with gadgets all around.

 

[subjonas]

Maybe they’ll take it a step further and just make a motorcycle helmet with gadgets all around.

So in the future we will all look like space balls.

 

[Kram Sacul]

April 1st?

 

[ericwn]

So in the future we will all look like space balls.

Let’s hope we do get some free Perri-Air too

 

[TomOSeven]

Maybe they’ll take it a step further and just make a motorcycle helmet with gadgets all around.

Just go all out and make a full Iron Man suit.

 

[subjonas]

April 1st?

This news came out a few days after. Pretty sure it’s real.

 

[Bravia3d]

Mask aren’t fashion.. You don’t need to walk around in a face diaper, people who do look like morons.

 

[MevetS]

Mask aren’t fashion.. You don’t need to walk around in a face diaper, people who do look like morons.

Someone looks like a moron here …

 

[Applecool78]

maybe at WWDC21 lol

 

[SegNerd]

I bought two “smart” masks on Amazon, and frankly they are pretty much total junk currently. The first one wouldn’t even fasten to stay on my face at all, and the second one was also very weighty and kept sagging downward.

 

[Sword86]

Masks smarter than the people buying them? Riiiight.
S

 

[ericwn]

Masks smarter than the people buying them? Riiiight.
S

That’s referred to as Halloween in some places!

 

[newbmacuser2021]

Facebook has Oculus VR.
Google has Google Cardboard.
Playstation has PlayStation VR.
Microsoft has HoloLens.

Without knowing Apple’s plan, it’s difficult to say, in contrast to MP3 or JPEG on macOS, Windows, and Linux, how VR will evolve.

If Apple chooses AR, then it’s not VR.

If Apple chooses VR, then the question sort of hints towards the revival of 3D movies that sort of faded away on Blu-Ray 3D.

And I think the industry is expecting some kind of iTunes for VR, which Oculus is attempting but has yet to make the acquisition of VR movies something more akin to Amazon.com

 

[ericwn]

Facebook has Oculus VR.
Google has Google Cardboard.
Playstation has PlayStation VR.
Microsoft has HoloLens.

Without knowing Apple’s plan, it’s difficult to say, in contrast to MP3 or JPEG on macOS, Windows, and Linux, how VR will evolve.

If Apple chooses AR, then it’s not VR.

If Apple chooses VR, then the question sort of hints towards the revival of 3D movies that sort of faded away on Blu-Ray 3D.

And I think the industry is expecting some kind of iTunes for VR, which Oculus is attempting but has yet to make the acquisition of VR movies something more akin to Amazon.com

And how does that relate to the topic?