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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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Global Hackathon for Vision Pro Development, Vision Hack, Kicks Off Next Month

Road to VR

Imagine building the first iPhone apps in 2008. Now, with the introduction of Apple Vision Pro, we’re standing at the threshold of a new era. It’s an opportunity to explore and shape the future of spatial computing as Apple Vision Pro continues its global rollout. That’s where we are with visionOS today.

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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

The Ghost Howls

This is a video showing Augmented Reality with 2D markers in 2008 using a Nokia N95 phone. Of course, this is also the mission of big players like Google and Apple. They are very useful if your purpose is to augment a specific physical object, but are still pretty cumbersome and sometimes pretty expensive.

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

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For example, Apple’s wearables are seeing strong revenue growth and offsetting smartphone revenue deceleration in the near term. Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber. Next up: Apple. Headspace does similar, building on an already-popular meditation app.

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VisionDevCamp To Jumpstart Apple Vision Pro Developers In Early 2024

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Shortly after Apple Vision Pro launch in early 2024 developers will gather for VisionDevCamp to work on app ideas for the new headset. The event is unaffiliated with Apple and will be held in the San Francisco area shortly after the U.S. launch of Apple Vision Pro early in 2024. "In

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Choosing the Right AR SDK: Mobile AR App Development Toolkit for 2020

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Apple ARKit. Cordova is for designing Android apps, so if you wanted an AR SDK that is Apple-specific, look elsewhere. Based in Salzburg, Austria, Wikitude was founded in 2008. One issue with it is that it only has a few supported devices right now, including Samsung Galaxy S8, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and the original Google Pixel.

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

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EN62471-2008). Industrialists that suggest the use cases and help us to test them, but, over all , big companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft which are visionary and invest a lot in such disruptive technologies, exacerbating our addiction to the net. Is this risk concrete? Can people help you in this amazing research?

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