Apple will get crushed to VR stylus by Meta and Logitech

Ligitech’s MX Ink Stylus for Meta Quest

It is a kind of concepts the place you surprise why Apple did not consider it — and then you definately discover out that it did. Apple has even utilized for a few patents for an Apple Pencil for the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, however now Logitech has introduced out the MX Ink Combined Actuality Stylus for Meta Quest.

MX Ink is a broadly Apple Pencil-like stylus that can be utilized with Meta’s headset. Mainly it is meant for drawing in mid-air, but it surely’s additionally a management machine that lets the consumer choose and manipulate gadgets.

Bodily, it is broader than the Apple Pencil, with a diameter of 0.72 inches in comparison with Apple Pencil Professional‘s 0.35 inches. The Logitech mannequin can also be heavier than Apple’s, at 1.02 ozin comparison with the Apple Pencil Professional’s 0.73 oz.

Plus the Logitech mannequin is fractionally, however noticeably, shorter. The place the Apple Pencil Professional is 6.53 inches tall, Logitech’s model is 6.46 inches.

All of this might make it troublesome for the actor or presenter holding it up within the air for prolonged intervals. However equally it may assist the MX Ink really feel much less like a stylus, and extra like a paint brush when an artist is utilizing it.

Definitely, Apple has had hopes for portray, with one patent software virtually describing a Bob Ross-like situation.

The MX Ink prices $129.99 from Logitech, which is roughly the identical value because the Apple Pencil Professional, and the Apple Pencil (2nd technology).

Naturally, neither the price of Logitech’s MX Ink or the Apple Pencil can realistically be in contrast. For with out their headsets, every of them are simply pricey ornaments.

However paired to the proper headset, a stylus has the promise of liberating up customers to do greater than swipe or sort. It guarantees annotations, as we’re used to with the Apple Pencil on iPads, and it may herald extra interactivity with digital gadgets, as Apple’s patent functions recommend.

Normally it is Apple who brings one thing new to an thought, akin to bringing a stylus to VR, however this time it has been trounced by Logitech. The query now could be whether or not Logitech can carry the MX Ink to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.

One other good questionj is that if Apple’s rumored testing of a stylus with the headset will result in a product launch.