Apple Preparing for October 18 Event, New MacBooks and AirPods Expected
Apple has sent invitations to media people for the next week’s Apple event on October 18.
Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality News
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Facebook to Spend $50M to Create Its Virtual Metaverse
By Juhi Mirza
Despite allocating a hefty sum of $50M to the project, it will still take approximately a decade to finally provide access to a fully functional metaverse with associated services.
Tim Cook Says AR Is Next Big Thing for Apple, AAPL Stock Slightly Tanks
By Daria Rud
There have been numerous rumors about Apple working on an AR product. In particular, the company is allegedly developing the Apple Glasses – augmented reality glasses that overlay graphics in the real world around you.
Xiaomi Unveils Its Smart Glasses to Mark Shift into AR World
Joining the growing evolution of smart glasses as we have it today, the Xiaomi brand will find uses in live translation, snapping pictures, navigation, and notifications for the display amongst other things.
ByteDance Acquires Virtual Reality Startup Pico for Estimated $772M
In the first quarter of 2021, Pico was identified as the third-largest virtual reality headset maker in the world.
Facebook Likely to Become ‘Metaverse Company’ in Next 5 Years
The immediate reason for Facebook to make such big investments in AR and VR technologies is to help the company control its own hardware platform.
Discord Acquires Ubiquity6, Takes Over Backyard and Other Apps
After raising approximately $38 million from investors, augmented reality (AR) startup Ubiquity6 has been acquired by gaming chat app Discord.
What Was Announced at Apple WWDC 2021
Apple has introduced a slew of pathbreaking features across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS. Besides, it has presented enhanced privacy options, new Apple Maps 3D Data, and the iCloud+ feature for power users.
Apple WWDC 2021 Keynote Today: Here Is What to Expect
As the MacBook Pro is more likely to be announced, users can expect to land a gadget with the new Apple-designed processors that would “greatly outpace the performance and capabilities of the current M1 chips”.
Explore Art from Your Home: NFT STARS Launches First AR-driven NFT Exhibition
By Andy Watson
NFT STARS has partnered with many outstanding digital art creators whose works are worthy of both attention and money. The value of their tokens is very likely to rise over time.
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One of the new intriguing trends in the gaming industry is the VR (Virtual Reality) technology. VR allows users and gamers to experience an extraordinary graphical 3-D (three dimensional) recreation of their surroundings. VR’s success has motivated several tech companies to venture into the gaming industry as top companies dabble into the technology.
In 2016, gaming fans across the globe were thrilled by the introduction of Virtual Reality Headsets, this led to much better user experience and significantly revolutionized the gaming industry.
A better user interface in VR games sparked the interest of users as the demand for the technology increased in a few months.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a shared simulation of the real-world experience of an environment, AR brings real life experience to the users in such a way that they cannot distinguish between real life experience and virtually augmented experience.
Its diligently connected term, Augmented Reality, gained a lot of hype at its introduction as many tech enthusiasts reeled in amazement of its limitless potential. AR currently has more use cases than VR and is steadily describing the next stage of how people might interact with each other in the near future.
Since its inception, Augment Reality has been majorly adopted and used in the advertisement and entertainment space. One of the products that signified the innovation was Google’s AR Glasses which was released to help autistic children get more comfortable in social gatherings.
Although AR is still in its early years, there is no doubt in its broad potential to give rise to better ingenious innovations in the future.
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