We’ve heard a lot of rumors about Apple’s new augmented reality headsets, known as Apple Glasses, to be announced sometime in 2022. While the company won’t give us details on its upcoming projects, developer and designer Jordan Singer has created this New concept that imagines the user interface of Apple Glasses inspired by iOS 14.
As Jordan noted, the Apple website highlights that changes to the iOS 14 interface make the elements “compact” and focus on allowing users to “get information quickly,” which is expected for an operating system that is will run on a pair of glasses.
These changes include home screen widgets, the new Siri interface, and the non-intrusive incoming call screen. With that in mind, Jordan created this concept to show how these items could be shown to someone who wears Apple Glasses.
Suppose Apple glasses have a way of presenting the user interface, either projection or on a screen. And suppose iOS 14 is introducing new user interface paradigms that will help make the transition to glasses seamless. Now, let’s take a look at how almost every corner of the iOS 14 for iPhone update can be translated directly to the user interface with a pair of glasses.
For notifications, the concept uses watchOS-inspired banners in the upper right corner of the field of view. You can see that images use the new macOS Big Sur icons, and Jordan justifies that icons with 3D elements and shadows should be more natural to be recognized when overlapping in the “real world”.
The new incoming call display and Apple Maps navigation banners also perfectly match the Apple Glasses.
“GlassOS” will automatically display widgets based on what is most important to the user, just like Smart Widget Stacks in iOS 14.
There are plenty of other examples you can check out on the concept page including Siri, AirPods alerts, privacy indicators, translation app and more.
What do you think of this concept? What approach do you think Apple should take to create a new operating system for Apple Glasses? Let us know in the comments section below.
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