Perhaps the Apple Watch was merely the beginning of Apple’s foray into the ever evolving world of wearables. Citing sources purportedly familiar with Apple’s plans, Bloomberg reports that Apple is currently exploring the idea of releasing digital glasses similar, in a broad sense, to what Google released just a few years ago.
Virtual reality (VR) is exploding right now. The PlayStation VR just launched for the PS4, and there are other interesting products out there, including Facebook’s Oculus, and HTC’s Vive. But Apple will have none of it, as it thinks the future is elsewhere: augmented reality (AR).
Apple hasn’t exactly been shy about expressing its interest in augmented reality. During an interview earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook plainly stated that he sees a lot more promise in augmented reality than in virtual reality. “There’s virtual reality and there’s augmented reality,” Cook said while appearing on Good Morning America. “Both of …
Apple is very interested in augmented reality (AR), Tim Cook recently reiterated without detailing any hardware or software products that would support it. However, a newly discovered patent reveals technology that would use AR for navigation purposes without requiring a GPS or cellular connection to work. Also important is the fact that the patent practically …
Some may say that print is dying, but that’s not exactly the case. It turns out that print magazines can still find new ways to be innovative in ways we never imagined possible. Don’t believe me? Then consider that The New Yorker’s latest cover comes to life when viewed through the lens of a tablet or smartphone.
It might sound like a wild theory, especially considering where it’s coming from, but a well-known Apple analyst has just predicted the death of the iPhone. No, this isn’t a story about Apple’s impending doom, which some people continue to warn us of even while Apple is the most valuable company on the planet. Instead, it’s a possibly reasonable but potentially …
There was a huge amount of hype surrounding Windows 10 ahead of its release earlier this year, but another Microsoft product may have been even more worthy of our attention. The company’s HoloLens gave us a glimpse of what computing in the near future may be like, and it was awesome. But Microsoft is hardly the …
Although cars have definitely gotten safer over the years, they all still have blind spots that prevent you from seeing everything that might be in front, behind or to the side of you. The engineers at Land Rover, however, have come up with a brilliant new solution that could make blind spots a thing of …
Google’s Niantic Labs — the same labs that brought you the augmented reality game Ingress — has teamed up with publisher HarperCollins to create another location-based augmented reality game. The game will accompany James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton’s new Endgame book trilogy.
One of the more interesting technologies Sony (SNE) revealed at this year’s E3 trade show was an augmented reality book experience called Wonderbook. The idea is to combine the motion sensing capabilities of the PlayStation Move with a specially designed augmented reality book to create an immersive and interactive digital book experience. Targeted mostly at …
