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Apple Says Steep ‘Horizon Worlds’ Creator Fees Show Meta’s “Hypocrisy”
Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior...
Evidence Mounts for Apple’s Support of WebXR in Latest iOS Beta
As the most valuable tech company in the world, decisions that Apple makes tend to reverberate throughout the industry. Recent evidence strongly points to Apple planning to support WebXR on Safari and possibly its forthcoming XR headset, which would...
Report: Apple’s VR Headset Delayed to 2023 Amid Development Challenges
Apple's upcoming VR headset was purportedly slated to arrive sometime this year. Now according to a recent Bloomberg report, those launch plans may be delayed by a few months, potentially pushing release to 2023.
According to the report, Apple's VR headset was...
New Apple Watch Feature Could Form the Basis of the Company’s XR Input Strategy
This week Apple debuted new accessibility-focused features for iOS. Among them, the AssistiveTouch feature for Apple Watch allows for single-handed control of the watch by detecting clenching and pinching of the hand, as well as accelerometer-based control. The system...
Report: Apple’s First VR Headset Rumored to Cost $3,000 & Include 8K Displays
According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple may be planning to release a VR headset with limited AR capabilities as soon as 2022, which is said to be a precursor to its long-rumored, full-fledged AR device. Now, a follow up report...
Report: Apple Starts Preliminary Production on “semitransparent” AR Lenses
According to a report by The Information, Apple is gearing up to enter a new phase in production on its fabled AR headset. Together with Foxconn Technology, the Taiwan-based contract manufacturer behind many of Apple's mobile devices, the company...
Rumor: Apple AR Glasses Leak Points to Name, Price & Possible Launch Window
We know that Apple has been developing an AR headset since at least 2017, but outside of what we gathered from files hidden in iOS 13.1 late last year though, which included a sizable trove of information on the...
Apple Seeks to “identify new computational display technologies for AR/VR” with New Hires
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...
Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset
Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. The questions of what, how, and when are all patently up...
Report: Apple Acquires Motion Capture Firm IKinema
According to a MacRumor report and regulatory filings with the UK government, Apple may have quietly acquired UK-based motion capture firm IKinema.
The report has thus far gone unsubstantiated by both companies, however a number of filings with the UK government...
Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1
Steadily becoming the biggest open-secret in the industry... more evidence has come to light that Apple in ongoing development of an AR headset. Inside iOS 13.1 beta 3, a developer claims to have found codenames, display dimensions, and fields...
iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple is Testing Its AR Headset Internally
Apple may not have shown off any AR tech at the company's grand iPhone 11 unveiling yesterday, however thanks to some newly discovered code in a recent built of iOS 13, it appears Apple is testing its own AR...
Flurry of New Apple ‘AR/VR’ Job Listings Point to New Products on the Horizon
A flurry of new job listings for Apple's secretive 'Technology Development Group' suggests that the company has reached a new phase of turning its years of AR/VR R&D into actual upcoming products. Two of the most intriguing among the...
Rumor: Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Consumer AR Headset
The Cupertino-based tech giant may be pumping the brakes on its long-rumored Apple AR headset, something that was reportedly slated to see a release as early as 2020. A DigiTimes Taiwan report (via MacRumors) now suggests that Apple has disbanded...
Report: Apple to Announce ARKit Updates at WWDC 2019 Including OS Support for AR Headsets
Apple has been continuously iterating on ARKit, its augmented reality development tool that lets creators make smartphone-based AR experiences. The company unveiled ARKit at its World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in 2017, and the 2.0 version at the dev...
