Apple Vision Pro News & Reviews

The latest Apple Vision Pro news. In this section you'll find AVP reviews, games, and news about Apple's latest moves in XR and spatial computing.

Apple Vision Pro News & Reviews

The latest Apple Vision Pro news. In this section you'll find AVP reviews, games, and news about Apple's latest moves in XR and spatial computing.

Apple Adds LiDAR Scanner to iPhone 12 Pro for “Instant AR” & Depth Mapping

Apple today introduced its latest lineup of smartphones, including the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, both of which are equipped with a LiDAR scanner which will bolster AR capabilities. Like the iPad Pro introduced earlier this year,...

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...

Apple Offers Impressive Web-based AR Previews of New Mac Pro

Apple is taking advantage of a recent iOS feature called AR Quick Look to allow potential customers to see the company's new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR at scale in augmented reality right from Apple.com on an iPhone....

Apple Announces ARKit 3 with Body Tracking & Human Occlusion

At the company's annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. ARKit 3 now offers real-time body tracking of people in the scene as well as...

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...

Report: Apple AR Headset Could Rely on iPhone for Rendering & Connectivity

Several reports over the past two years have suggested Apple is getting ready to manufacture an AR headset, and possibly ship it sometime in 2020—something that's so far unsubstantiated by the company itself. Now highly respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, someone...

HoloLens Co-inventor & AR/VR Pioneer Avi Bar-Zeev Has Left Apple

Avi Bar-Zeev, HoloLens co-inventor and longtime AR/VR stalwart, has left Apple, Variety reports. Bar-Zeev helped found and invent the core technologies behind HoloLens at Microsoft, assembling the company's very first AR prototypes, demos and UX concepts. According to his LinkenIn bio, Bar-Zeev...
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