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JULY 5, 2017

Today, Brandon Jones from Google (who is one of the chairs in the official WebVR Community Group ,) noticed that developers from Apple have officially joined the group. With their inclusion this now means that every major web browser vendor (Apple = Safari for example) has input into WebVR’s development.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2023

According to a Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman, Apple is changing things up with the creation of a new Vision Products Group (VPG), which is tasked with developing the company’s recently unveiled mixed reality headset, Vision Pro.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

Between the Metaverse ETF, the Glimpse Group IPO (initial public offering), and other big trends, XR might be finally coming of age. Glimpse Group Goes Public. Glimpse Group is composed of eight subsidiary XR companies. Glimpse Group recently went public with a successful Nasdaq IPO with the ticker “VRAR.”

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Israeli surveillance-for-hire company NSO Group over its Pegasus spyware that has been used to target Apple devices. Read more.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2023

Ming-Chi Kuo, a respected supply chain analyst, reports that Apple is tamping down enthusiasm for its upcoming mixed reality headset, which was rumored to see its big announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. Includes a main SoC (CPU, GPU, and memory) and a dedicated image signal processor (ISP).

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Apple Vision Pro is about to set a lot of expectations in the industry of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ about mixed reality, something the fruit company prefers to call spatial computing. Luckey is mostly positive about Vision Pro, saying it’s patently Apple.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Both Apple and Meta revealed highly anticipated headsets in the last seven days. Meta’s seemingly hasty announcement of the Quest 3 seems to have been timed to come out before Apple’s announcement of the Vision Pro. Apple reported over 10 million pixels per eye, but did not release familiar resolution metrics or field-of-view.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2023

While Apple’s new Vision Pro headset isn’t going to satisfy the existing base of consumer VR users, it’s mastering the rest of the basics better than anyone else. Today at Apple’s headquarters I got to check out Vision Pro for myself. But remember, this is Apple. Look & Tap It starts with the input.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2017

With Apple’s newly public interest in VR , developers from the company have join the W3C WebVR Community Group to have a say in the development of the WebVR standard. To achieve that, W3C hosts online groups to get developers talking to one another and deciding what a standard should look like and how it should work.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

XR Today is honoured to interview Keenan Harris, Brand Director, Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey and Telly Wong, Chief Content Officer, IW Group to discuss the two company’s collaboration on The Verse. The company has worked with Disney, Warner Bros, Apple TV, Netflix, Wells Fargo, Sony Pictures, Walmart, and many others.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Apple Vision Pro is coming next year, not only making for the Fruit Company’s much awaited first XR headset, but also spurring a resurgence in public interest (and likely investment) in the XR space. Apple has a tendency to undervalue gaming initially, though perhaps reluctantly, eventually acknowledges its importance.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2022

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, and other tech giants have formed a group designed to ensure interoperability in the metaverse. Notably absent from this list of heavyweights is Apple, a company heavily rumored to be working on its own mixed reality products. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 1, 2022

On Thursday, the Warner Music Group (WMG) announced a collaboration with OpenSea, a peer-to-peer NFT marketplace, to secure the global music label with Web3 infrastructure. Via the marketplace’s MoonPay service, users can buy, sell, and mint NFTs with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Apple, and Google Pay.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

Apple is a notorious black box when it comes to internal projects, although sometimes details based on supply chain rumors shed a sliver of light on what might be happening with the company’s AR/VR headset behind closed doors. The report says Cook “rarely visits the group at its offices away from the main Apple campus.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. Zuckerberg said last week that he wants in 5 years Facebook to become a “metaverse company” and this week he started taking action in this sense: he has created a group in the company focused on “building the metaverse”. (Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD ( AOUSD ), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and development of a 3D file protocol that Apple says will “help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Clubhouse releases a spatial audio feature to make it feel you’re in the ‘middle’ of a group conversation. Apple’s iPhone 13 may allow internet connectivity via Low Earth Orbit satellites, or LEOs. The post Reality Bytes: Clubhouse, Apple & Instagram appeared first on AR Insider. Forget Clubhouse, we dive into the tech.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 5, 2022

NSO Group, the creepy spyware firm known for selling its services to authoritarian governments throughout the world, is in trouble again. A new report shows that the company’s most notorious malware, Pegasus, was used to hack the iPhone of a Jordanian journalist in December. The hack occurred several weeks after… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

Apple MR headset may cost $2000+. The rumors about the Apple headset have started to intensify and converge on what they suggest. This week, Mr. Kuo, a popular Apple analyst, has said a few interesting predictions about the upcoming headset. The Glimpse Group may have become one of the biggest companies in XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 18, 2024

Today, at NVIDIA GTC 2024, company CEO Jensen Huang announced that the firm’s enterprise-ready digital twin and immersive content creation hub Omniverse is debuting on Apple’s Vision Pro. More on Apple Vision Pro Apple released its first public update on its debut XR device, which hit the market earlier this year.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, the recent announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro last June is set to reinvigorate the marketplace. Rolf Illenberger “I and the entire industry was waiting for Apple for a decade,” said Rolf Illenberger, CEO of VRDirect, which provides company software solutions to build their own VR projects. Meta Quest 3. Image courtesy Meta.)

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

New reports highlight some episodes of the life of Apple XR glasses. This week The Information has written a long report about the history of Apple XR glasses. The post The XR Week Peek (2022.05.23): New info on Apple glasses, Qualcomm glasses go wireless, and more! appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 25, 2021

How many XR headsets is Apple working on, and when can we get our hands one them? Apple headset to be a pricey, niche VR precursor to eventual AR headset. Apple VR will have much higher resolution than existing VR products on the market, and may have some AR features as well. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Not a good sign.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2020

In its latest hiring bout, over the last month Apple has sought more than a dozen new hires specifically for AR and VR roles. Among them, the company is looking for a Computational Display Engineering Manager for incubating advanced display technologies for use with upcoming Apple products.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This past October, TF International Securities analyst and veteran Apple researcher Ming-Chi Kuo released research indicating that Apple would be launching its long-rumored AR headset during the second quarter of 2020 and would be partnering third-party eyeglass brands, hinting at a modular design. Image Credit: Apple.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Apple recently revealed a new policy that would notify users if their devices were the targets of a state-sponsored attack conducted using spyware from Israeli surveillance-for-hire firm NSO Group. Now, just weeks later, a new report from Reuters claims at least nine U.S. State Department officials found themselves on… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Apple headset may have been delayed again. A new week, a new set of rumors about the upcoming Apple Reality One, the most awaited headset in the history of XR. This week we got to know that Apple has just rebranded the operating system of the upcoming device from RealityOS (or rOS) to xrOS. Top news of the week. Image by Sony).

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2023

Luckily the latest update to Apple’s ‘Vision’ framework—which gives developers a bunch of useful computer vision tools for iOS and iPad apps—includes the ability to identify and track the skeletal position of dogs and cats. Would reality really be complete without our beloved four-legged friends? Certainly not.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

iFixit tore down Apple Vision Pro, giving a fascinating look at its intricate design and revealing the secrets of EyeSight. These ridges are grouped, with each in the group directing light to a viewing angle that matches one of the rendered views, and Vision Pro displays that rendered view on a vertical strip underneath it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I can’t wait to discover the Pico 4, the Quest Pro, and the Apple Reality headsets… and you? Apple headset may be called “Reality”. We have new rumors about the upcoming Apple headset. It seems that one of Apple’s shell companies has just registered the trademarks “Reality One”, “Reality Pro”, and “Reality Processor”.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 23, 2022

Online group and event apps for iOS won’t have to say goodbye quite yet to Apple’s pandemic-related exemptions to its in-app purchase policy. Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The clock may be running out for notorious Israeli surveillance for hire company NSO Group. Sources told Bloomberg that the company’s cumbersome mixture of unpaid debts and growing international scrutiny have made NSO a bloated pariah and is forcing its leadership to consider shutting down its Pegasus spyware unit. S… Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For years, the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group has sparked fear and fascination throughout the international community via its hacking tools—the likes of which have been sold to authoritarian governments throughout the world and used against journalists, activists, politicians, and anybody else unfortunate enough to… Read more.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft is reportedly reducing the size of its HoloLens group. Google and Apple have instituted hiring freezes for some teams. But Bloomberg’s Dina Bass reports the layoffs include the Mixed Reality group, responsible for HoloLens 2 and the IVAS militarized version.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We’re a long ways off from that and it won’t happen with the first generation Apple Vision Pro. I can only begin to imagine the possibilities and Apple is currently feeding developers kits at $3,500 each to build what’s in their imaginations. This is usually done to restore their sight to what others have at 20/20.

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