Ever since Apple introduced their AirPods, I have longed for them to include noise-canceling features given my need for this type of technology. This is a request I have made directly to Apple execs for the last two years and thought they were falling on deaf ears. 

While these are great earbuds, I believe they are more than that in Apple’s grand scheme for AR and mixed reality. … by mid-decade, I have no doubt that Apple plans to move all of the intelligence to the AR/Mixed reality headset itself and make it a computing platform in its own right.

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…Apple has created its first AR-based hardware device that I believe will be a strategic part of their eventual AR and mixed reality headset program. …