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According to The New York Times , Apple is enlisting the help of the Hollywood elite to help bolster its catalog of immersive content for its long-rumored VR/AR headset. According to sources, this mixed reality content will be available next year when Apple’s VR/AR headset launches sometime in 2023. Credit: Wired.
VR remote collaboration company Mimesys has dreamt up an experiment which envisions mobile AR as a portal into remote virtualenvironments, allowing for quick spatial collaboration on-the-go, without putting on a VR headset. As with our own holographic meetings, we expect that usecases around 3D files will be the most popular to start.
After years of speculation, Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, the company’s first spatial computer. Tim Cook made the reveal during the 2023 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, sharing a number of exciting features that could change the way we look at mixed reality technology.
Apple appears to be getting ready to unveil its first mixed reality headset at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtualenvironments, such as a desert or the sky.
In this Guest Article, studio head Denny Unger shares his thoughts on Apple’s entrance into the space. So let’s get the obvious over first; Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first generation attempt at AR glasses using a Mixed Reality VR headset. Guest Article by Denny Unger Denny Unger is CEO and CCO at Cloudhead Games.
From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. According to Gurman, Apple is also investing in games, which will be an important part of the experience. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news.
Just as multidimensional images immerse us into a virtualenvironment, spatial sound effects also immerse us into a memorable sound experience that heightens our other senses. The visual elements we see in the virtualenvironment must match the detailed spatial audio mix to make the experience realistic.
Netflix isn’t planning to launch a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro, which is an odd move coming from the streaming video giant. Hands-on: Apple Vision Pro isn’t for Gaming, But it Does Everything Else Better The post Netflix Won’t Put Its App on Vision Pro, But Web Streaming Works appeared first on Road to VR.
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To bring a more organic and natural typing experience into VR, a group of researchers from the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich , Switzerland have developed a set of wristbands called TapID that—when combined with hand tracking—allows you to “feel” the keys of your virtual keyboard as you type.
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Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.
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Little Cities (2022) , the pint-sized VR city manager, is getting a new version for Apple Vision Pro that’s all about mixed reality gameplay. Called Little Cities: Diorama, the game will launch for Vision Pro through Apple Arcade on December 5th. Check out the trailer below, courtesy MIXED.
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The global leader in industrial-grade virtual and mixed reality hardware and software, Varjo, has announced the general availability of Teleport, which creates photorealistic digital twins by stitching together 3D scenes made from Apple smartphone photos.
The app, which was created by Oscar Falmer, a Senior at Universite’ of Eastern Paris Marne-La-Vallee and a self-taught coder, has built up a great deal of global steam with over 10,000 downloads in over 17 countries since it debuted on the Apple App store on December 5. “I “I want people to have crazy ideas.”.
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The stable release of visionOS 2 is out now for Apple Vision Pro. visionOS 2 was announced back at Apple's WWDC24 event in June. But the first stable release is out now, and should be available for every Apple Vision Pro owner. But the first stable release is out now, and should be available for every Apple Vision Pro owner.
0:00 / 1:16 1× visionOS 2 was announced back at Apple's WWDC24 event in June. How To Download Pre-Release visionOS Versions To enable downloading beta and release candidate (RC) Apple operating systems you just need to sign in with your Apple ID on the Apple Developer Center website at least once.
You will be able to talk to new virtual beings who will know more about your world than any single human does and you will literally talk to and touch the computing that will be all around you, either within complete virtualenvironments or within new forms of augmented reality.
In Mark Gurman's latest report he claims Apple is "considering" making the upcoming non-Pro Vision headset "reliant on a tethered Mac or iPhone". Replace Apple Vision Pro's external battery with your iPhone and it could provide not only power but compute too, making the headset both lighter and cheaper.
Niantic's 8th Wall WebXR AR engine now supports Apple Vision Pro. Last month we reported on three 8th Wall demos that support crossplay between smartphones and Quest 3, but noted that none of the demos worked on Apple Vision Pro. Niantic is the company behind smartphone AR games like Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now.
Gaming with Apple Vision Pro is like playing in a strange new alternate universe. 0:00 / 0:54 1× Myst from Cyan designed for iPad and iPhone plays great on Apple Vision Pro with gamepad. 0:00 / 0:54 1× Myst from Cyan designed for iPad and iPhone plays great on Apple Vision Pro with gamepad. Would you like to know more?
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Apple's movie store now lists 3D support on some titles. When introducing Vision Pro at the WWDC event in June, Apple confirmed that its visionOS will support playing 3D versions of movies on a giant virtual screen. You can choose between your real room (optionally darkened) or a virtualenvironment.
Apple CEO Tim Cook claims he watched "the entire third season" of the show Ted Lasso in Vision Pro. Cook told CBS News he uses Apple Vision Pro "on a regular basis", giving his Ted Lasso watching as an example. CBS News also asked Cook about these potential roadblocks, and whether they would delay the launch.
Like Netflix, YouTube also didn't make an Apple Vision Pro app and is opting out of making its iPad app available. Apple previously announced that iPad & iPhone apps are available on the visionOS App Store "by default" and developers have to intentionally opt-out if they don't want theirs to be. UploadVR David Heaney
Introducing Apple Vision Pro' is now the most watched public video on Apple's YouTube channel. At the time of writing, the video has just under 51 million views, surpassing the previous most watched video 'Introducing Apple Watch Series 8' which has just under 50 million. The era of spatial computing is here."
The co-CEO of Netflix gave his reasoning for why it isn't supporting Apple Vision Pro at launch. Apple previously announced that iPad & iPhone apps are available on the visionOS App Store "by default" and developers have to intentionally opt-out if they don't want theirs to be. 0:00 / 0:17 1× Media watching on Apple Vision Pro.
The first Super Fruit Ninja screenshots tease spatial gaming on Apple Vision Pro, and show the passthrough quality. A new title in the series for Apple Vision Pro, Super Fruit Ninja, was first spotted in a screenshot listed on the App Store during the headset's reveal at WWDC, and last week Apple formally confirmed it as a "spatial game".
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Gears & Goo is out now on Apple Arcade for Vision Pro and it's a must-play for subscribers and strategy fans. I spent the better part of two 7-hour train rides over Christmas break locked into Gears & Goo from Resolution Games on Apple Vision Pro. Read on for our full overview.
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They will have complete freedom of movement to explore the virtualenvironment, because they won’t need to connect their devices to a computer by cables. As for iOS devices, there is no information, at the moment, whether the SDK will be expanded to include Apple smartphones and tablets. How Can Companies Access NVIDIA CloudXR?
Apple’s ARKit combined HTC Vive shows us the future of mixed reality. Apple’s recently released ARKit platform is absolutely killing it right now. Using Apple’s ARKit, Normal VR was actually able to capture the movements and actions of the human artist and project their VR renditions in real life via augmented reality.
However, the setup of the virtualenvironment can be potentially similar, in terms of the current limitations of Metaverse technologies. By using the attached camera and collecting visual captures randomly, does it still count as meaningful art expression? The last bit to consider is styles.
In June, Varjo launched its Teleport solution as an exclusive application for Apple smartphones. To create a digital twin, a user needs to take a series of photos of an object at different angles with a smartphone, which a team can then view and work on via a PC or VR headset.
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