'RealityOS' trademark hints at upcoming Apple AR/VR headset launch

Weeks after Apple is understood to have shown off its first mixed reality headset to the board of directors, a new trademark filing suggests that a public announcement could be right around the corner.

Apple's mixed reality headset should run realityOS

As highlighted by Parker Ortolani of The Verge, two trademark applications were filed on December 8, 2021 in relation to the term “realityOS” under several categories including software, computer and video games, and wearable computer hardware.

References to “realityOS” have been found several times in Apple’s software, with the term believed to be the official marketing name for the operating system that Apple’s future AR headsets will run.

These trademark applications lead credence to this theory, although Apple is unsurprisingly not the company that filed them. Behind the applications is a mysterious company known as Realityo Systems LLC.

That company seems to be a temporary shell corporation intended to hide Apple’s trademark filings. It wouldn’t be the first time it has done such a thing, in fact it did so as recently as last year to protect the macOS 12 ‘Monterey’ name.