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Why Apple Can’t Ignore VR Forever

Road to VR

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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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose

AR Insider

For example, Apple’s wearables are seeing strong revenue growth and offsetting smartphone revenue deceleration in the near term. After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber. Next up: Apple.

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What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constellation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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The AR Show: What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constelation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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AR contact lenses are far away, but a new research is paving their way

The Ghost Howls

EN62471-2008). I have just mentioned that Microsoft suggested us that the DARPA could be interested in such kind of devices… what we knew from the DGA (French DARPA) already. HoloLens 2 are already used by the military in the US (Image by Microsoft). All our devices are compliant with ocular safety norms (e.g.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map

AR Insider

From 2016 to 2019, I helped Apple figure out whatever it might be doing by prototyping experiences and technologies from the future. A few months before Apple, I was invited to Facebook to interview for a position leading Facebook’s new AR program. I worked at Microsoft from 2008-2012. your) social content, on-demand.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).