At the beginning of the 12 months, a handful of builders, together with Steve Troughton-Smith, discovered references to “realityOS,” the working system for Apple’s long-rumored digital and augmented actuality headset. Now, a bit of greater than per week earlier than the beginning of WWDC 2022, the identify has resurfaced in trademark filings seemingly linked to the corporate.
It can’t be a coincidence that the “realityOS” trademark owned by an organization that seemingly doesn’t exist and is particularly for “wearable computer hardware” is being filed around the globe on June 8, 2022 https://t.co/myoRbOvgJa + https://t.co/AH97r95EMn pic.twitter.com/uvsiZCj2rR
— Parker Ortolani (@ParkerOrtolani) May 29, 2022
On Friday, Vox Media product supervisor Parker Ortolani took to Twitter to share two United States Patent and Trademark Office filings he discovered registered by an organization referred to as Realityo Systems LLC. As Parker and others have identified, there’s proof to recommend Realityo Systems is a shell firm created by Apple to obscure its tracks.
First, there’s the June eighth overseas submitting deadline for each logos, which falls simply two days after the beginning of WWDC 2022. Additionally, as famous by 9to5Mac, Realityo Systems LLC shares the identical handle as Yosemite Research LLC, the shell firm Apple used to safe logos for previous variations of its macOS working system, together with macOS Monterey. One extra fascinating tidbit of proof is that in some international locations Realityo Systems submitted trademark filings that embrace a realityOS brand written in Apple’s signature San Francisco typeface.
The timing of the filings suggests Apple is getting nearer to the day it can really feel snug sharing particulars about its augmented and digital actuality ambitions. However, we’d warning towards anticipating an announcement as early as subsequent week. In his newest Power On publication, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman predicts the corporate gained’t maintain “a full-blown presentation” on its mixed-reality headset at WWDC. In reality, he says he can be “wary of expecting” such an announcement from the corporate. Gurman beforehand reported that Apple was contemplating pushing the system’s debut again to 2023 as a result of ongoing improvement issues. Still, the corporate is clearly transferring ahead with the undertaking.