Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2024

Apple was recently granted a patent for ‘EyeSight’, the external display on Vision Pro which shows the wearer’s eyes. Image courtesy Apple EyeSight is perhaps the most unique bit of hardware on Vision Pro. Image courtesy Apple EyeSight is perhaps the most unique bit of hardware on Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Just as multidimensional images immerse us into a virtual environment, spatial sound effects also immerse us into a memorable sound experience that heightens our other senses. The visual elements we see in the virtual environment must match the detailed spatial audio mix to make the experience realistic.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing platform, and hopes to establish its own territory in the XR landscape against incumbents Meta and Apple. Functionally, this is all pretty similar to what Apple is doing with VisionOS, but Android flavored. Gemini is built right into Android XR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Apple confirmed it’s launching VisionOS 2 on September 16th, which is coming along with a ton of previously teased features announced back at WWDC in June. Apple TV Sports Multiview At some point Vision Pro is getting the Multiview feature on Vision Pro’s Apple TV app, putting it more in line with the capabilities of Apple TV 4K.

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VRScout

MARCH 20, 2021

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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VRScout

MAY 26, 2023

Here’s everything we might know about Apple’s long-rumored XR device. The rumors about Apple’s rumored mixed-reality headset have been gaining some big momentum thanks to a recent tweet from Palmer Luckey alluding to the fact that he has seen and tried the mystery device. The Apple headset is so good.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Supported capture devices include iPhones and iPads running iOS 17 or later, which includes a fairly large swath of hardware—from iPhone XR and above, and Apple’s 8th gen iPad and above. Meanwhile, Meta is working on a similar consumer-facing product , which was announced in September, called Horizon Hyperscape.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2024

But what if I told you Apple’s headset actually has a lower effective resolution than Quest 3? Is this just Apple fanboyism at work? On Vision Pro, Apple does an exceptionally good job at matching almost every piece of the underlying interface to the headset’s resolving power. Why Are People Gawking Over Vision Pro?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

YouTube is planning to build an Apple Vision Pro app. Watching traditional media on a giant virtual screen is a key focus of Apple Vision Pro. You can choose between watching in your real room (optionally darkened), a fully virtual environment, or a blend of both.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

The exciting news is that we have started a new tech cycle, with the combination of augmented reality , virtual reality , and artificial intelligence. Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. The Beginnings of a New Tech Cycle.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Apple Vision Pro will have access to over 150 3D movies at launch. One of the key use cases Apple is pitching Vision Pro for is watching traditional media like movies and TV shows on a giant virtual screen, with a choice of background between your real room (optionally darkened), a fully virtual environment, or a blend of both.

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APRIL 2, 2024

Apple Vision Pro's long-anticipated 'Spatial Personas' feature is now available. Personas are Apple's realistic virtual avatars in visionOS, driven in real-time by the headset's eye, face, and hand tracking sensors. 0:00 / 0:24 1× Spatial Personas in Apple's Freeform collaboration app.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive! Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

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

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JANUARY 26, 2024

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.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

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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APRIL 15, 2024

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.

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JUNE 24, 2024

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.

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MARCH 18, 2024

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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JUNE 16, 2023

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."

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2020

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 virtual environments or within new forms of augmented reality.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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 virtual environment.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Netflix subscribers will have to access the streaming service on the web if they want to watch on Apple Vision Pro. 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

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The most recent season, “The Impending Execution of Elwood Jones”, is already available to USA TODAY, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Wondery+ subscribers, while non-subscribers will be able to watch it weekly, starting February 8, on Wondery, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

The international media conglomerate is in the headlines this week with its Holotile breakthrough, a prototype device that acts as a VR input treadmill, allowing various users to walk around a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. However, in 2023, the momentum shifted.

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ARPost

MAY 26, 2020

They will have complete freedom of movement to explore the virtual environment, 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?

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VRScout

JULY 10, 2017

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.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The CEO said they have but one competitor, Apple, which hasn’t yet announced any XR, AR or VR, products. You can join virtual environments for festival mingling or join Q&As and drop into post-premiere parties. Tilt Brush becomes open source. Sundance Film Festival brings VR Storytelling and Movie Premieres to your home.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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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