Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

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. SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1. Image courtesy HTC.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Apple’s short history with VR is somewhat troubled. Earlier this week Apple provided an update on its Mac Pro line of desktop PCs, promising that a new iteration of the device would be coming at some point in 2018. As for a possible Mac VR headset made by Apple itself? But let’s cut right to the bit you care about.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2020

Alongside gaining the attention and favor of key companies like Valve and veteran engineers like John Carmack and Michael Abrash, the company managed to rapidly raise a string of investments from high profile VC firms; a Series A round of $16 million in early 2013 followed by a Series B round of $75 million in late 2013.

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Road to VR

JULY 20, 2022

” This was no doubt partially informed by their rocky experience with Google Glass starting in 2013 which spawned the neologism ‘glasshole’ due to the device’s relative high visibility and supposed privacy concerns of wearing a camera. Glass is still around, albeit only for enterprise users.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. Apple’s decision to exclude controllers from Vision Pro has undercut much of the XR game design knowledge that’s accumulated over the last decade.

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Voices of VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Bert Nepveu is a co-founder of VRvana, which made a enterprise mixed reality headset that was acquired by Apple in 2017 and provided a number of key innovations that have now shipped with the Apple Vision Pro.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. A lot of people who see this headline might say that they’ve seen it before – and they might have seen it in 2013. The return of Google and the advent of AR glasses from Apple or Meta are widely rumored, but they always have been.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The developer of early demos for the Rift DK1 and DK2 has brought one of modern consumer VR’s very first demo experiences to Apple Vision Pro — Proton Pulse. Justin Moravetz initially released a Proton Pulse demo to the Oculus forum in April 2013 in the days before Oculus Share.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2016

One thing that’s always defined Apple is its ability to shape tech’s future. All this action is precisely where Apple’s absence is felt. Sexy and futuristic VR launches stand in stark contrast to Apple’s own Fall hardware event, where its gadget-centric keynote spotlighted … a new keyboard.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 24, 2022

That seems to be the thinking of Apple, which is reportedly working on a hardware subscription service that would allow customers to pay recurring fees in exchange for access to the latest iPhone. If confirmed, Apple wouldn't be the first tech company to push toward a subscription model. A company spokesperson declined to comment.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2017

Back in 2013 the company had announced and taken pre-orders for a $3,000 headset called the Meta Pro. While Meta has raised a considerable $73 million in venture capital to fund their ongoing development, giants like Microsoft, Magic Leap, and perhaps even Apple loom. SEE ALSO Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Flappy Experience is a clone of Flappy Bird with first-person gameplay, and it's free on Apple Vision Pro. Developed by Tal Kol using RealityKit, Flappy Experience takes direct inspiration from 2013's casual mobile side-scroller, Flappy Bird. Flappy Experience is free to download on Apple Vision Pro.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. Triangulating Clues in Apple’s AR Roadmap.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 27, 2021

A deposition related to Epic Games’ ongoing case against Apple reveals that Eddy Cue in 2013 championed iMessage for Android but was ultimately overruled. Read more.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2016

Google searches for “Oculus Rift” have enjoyed steady popularity since 2013 with major spikes hitting after the company’s announcement that it had been acquired by Facebook in 2014, and as the headset finally opened for pre-orders earlier this year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

.” Blau has held several senior positions at companies such as Autodesk, Silicon Graphics, and Double Fusion, and most recently as a Gartner analyst, serving as lead for Apple and other AR and VR technologies. ” Since its founding in 2013, vTime has operated out of their Liverpool, UK-based studio.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The company has been involved in the VR cinematic space since its founding in 2013. Jaunt’s evolution to a B2B-focused company coincided with the late-2017 announcement of their Jaunt XR platform.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez. Elsevier Science, 2013. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings?

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Apple Hints At VR/AR Work Once More With Oculus, Magic Leap Hires Business Insider is reporting that the ever-popular tech giant made two key hires in recent weeks and months. The former is Yury Petrov, who reportedly came on board at Apple all the way back in June. Read more here.

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MARCH 11, 2017

The Apple Newton was far too advanced and thus unacceptable. Apple famously used a skeuomorphic design in its iPhone operating systems until the release of iOS 7 in 2013. Apple helped consumers get comfortable with touch screen phones by providing a direct correlation to an application’s real world counterpart.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 21, 2022

Apple is rumored to be launching a few desktop lines and new models this year and, with that, support for some of the older computers has got to go. Or does Apple still consider it to be "vintage?" Obsolete desktop Macs When a Mac becomes obsolete, that's the end of the road for that particular Apple product.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. According to the Los Angeles Business Journal, more than 12,000 entities have benefited from the programme’s incentives, creating almost 165,000 jobs since its inception in 2013.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

That started with a Duck Hunt game for Apple TV which not only represents spatial beginnings but the company’s name. And on your Apple TV, we communicated over Bluetooth, and we replayed this Duck Hunt look alike. Google Glass was released in 2013, which wasn’t powerful enough. Apple is taking the opposite approach.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 29, 2022

Despite being founded just 9 years ago in 2013, OnePlus has managed to make quite a splash in the world of mobile tech. The company’s hi-spec smartphones often stand toe-to-to with those from giants like Apple and Samsung, combining industry-leading performance with creative, boundary-pushing features.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

One name is notably absent from that list: Apple. Despite the occasional patent or acquisition , Apple has yet to make any concrete statement concerning its commitment to VR. In an interview with Buzzfeed , Apple CEO Tim Cook made some interesting comments related to AR and VR. It’s been a big few years for Apple and AR.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This is both to offer a wider, holistic view of GPU performance under workstation applications, and even more fundamental than that, to provide a proper apples-to-apples testing environment.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Source: [link] When it debuted in 2013 the Google Glass was the first of its kind. The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 20, 2022

Even though iPhone technology has far surpassed the iPod (which was revolutionary for its time), Apple still has the iPod touch in its product lineup. Starting at $199 , it is significantly less expensive than the cheapest iPhone ($429), has FaceTime and iMessage, can hold 256GB of storage, and has the Apple App Store and Apple Arcade.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 14, 2022

The Apple TV+ sports comedy featuring everyone's favorite football coach, Ted Lasso , became the most-awarded series at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards , taking home four honors. Built around a viral 2013 NBC Sports sketch about Jason Sudeikis as an American coach in London, the lovable Lasso garnered three honors for Season 1 last year.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2016

Those with Apple computers may well feel a little left out in the cold when it comes to running the latest virtual reality hardware. But right now there’s just not a single machine out there [from Apple] that supports it. So are Apple computer users SOL when it comes to running VR? Mac Pro, Late 2013-2015.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 7, 2024

VRR displays, and even Apple ProMotion displays, such as the panels built into their recent MacBook Pro laptops. " Although G-SYNC originally came out in 2013 and GeForce Now has been available since 2015, the two never intersected until now. Intel and AMD GPUs are "not supported at this time."

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Apple (ecosystem) 2. Microsoft’s second AR headset, Hololens 2, is expected to be released this month.

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Mashable VR

JULY 17, 2022

TL;DR: As of July 17, you can get a refurbished Apple MacBook Pro i5 2.4GHz 128GB SSD for just $249.99 So if you need a new machine for work or leisure, see if this refurbished Apple MacBook Pro i5 is what you’re looking for. Credit: Apple. Refurbished Apple MacBook Pro i5 2.4GHz 128GB SSD (opens in a new tab).

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GizModo VR

MARCH 23, 2022

Carl Pei is hoping to recreate the success of OnePlus, the smartphone company he founded in 2013, with his new venture, Nothing. Today, the outfit confirmed rumors it was designing and building its first smartphone, the “phone (1),” and it’s set to arrive sometime this Summer. Read more.

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Mashable VR

JULY 16, 2022

Signal is a free, privacy-focused messaging and voice talk app you can use on Apple and Android smartphones, and via desktop. Though a small group of privacy activists created Signal in 2013, it has grown in recent years. How to join Signal You can find Signal in Apple’s App Store or in the Google Play store.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you have an early 2016 or newer MacBook, early 2015 or newer MacBook Air, early 2015 or newer MacBook Pro, late 2014 or newer Mac Mini , late 2015 or newer iMac, the late 2017 iMac Pro, or late 2013 or newer Mac Pro, you… Read more.

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