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Apple Hires Leading Virtual Reality Researcher
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I think the exact opposite. Technology achievements are going to increase faster and faster.
And whatever will be easy to sell to the masses, will sell
Whatever technology Apple touches, all of the sudden there's a ton of content for it. So I'm happy about this. After using the Gear VR with my S6 Edge, I'm convinced VR is the truth.
Actually if your looking at VR purely in the gaming sense and from an Oculus POV Then the Mac pro would be the closest however VR is not just got gaming and thats probably not the direction apple would go in anyway.
They could be building a standalone headset or one that would work with the iPhone. I don't see why people always associate VR with gaming when there are other purposes for it.
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While its grasping at straws. Apple was not late to the game with a 64-Bit chip. They were the first and even had qualcomm worried for a bit. Mobile payments? If your talking about unsecured mobile payments with then your right but if your talking about biometric mobile payments then they were first.
Apple hasn't said they want to do anything yet. At least wait and see before shooting it down.
You sound just like the people who didn't want them to make phones...
I just don't see it, it's a waste, really. We've been through this before, and the same issues exist as the 90s... VR sickness. The US DOD has been researching this stuff to the tune of billions... VR sickness. Oculus has been working on this near a decade... VR sickness.
It's time to recognize the trend. You can fool the eyes, but you can't fool the ears and your equilibrium will remain off... you can't fool your body into walking unnatural to your what your own expected, no-thinking gait actually is. You can't fool the effects of gravity on your body. It's a pipe dream. VR sickness is unavoidable, at best you can only slow down how quickly it hits... or you buy stock in dramamine... a hallucinogen.
It's time to recognize the trend. You can fool the eyes, but you can't fool the ears and your equilibrium will remain off... you can't fool your body into walking unnatural to your what your own expected, no-thinking gait actually is. You can't fool the effects of gravity on your body. It's a pipe dream. VR sickness is unavoidable, at best you can only slow down how quickly it hits... or you buy stock in dramamine... a hallucinogen.
Apple doesn't often reveal much about its goals when a product is still in the development stage. With all of Steve Jobs' "vision", your knowledge of what the iPhone would be like before it was first introduced was extremely limited, and most likely completely wrong. Even when the iPhone was made available, users of "real smartphones" sneered at it. Sure it was slick, but it didn't have a physical keyboard, no app store, not even such a basic function as copy/paste. So much for Steve Jobs' vision. Apple was doomed.
Very much so. Think of it as a "post tablet era"
The augmented reality goggles - such as Microsoft's HoloLens - are particularly interesting. Some of the applications I've heard for that are incredibly cool. I'm no fan of MS, but it's odd to hear about cool tech coming from them, while Apple focuses on CPU bumps and incremental OS features.
VR is definitely not dead. Nor will it be anytime soon. Apple is smart (although a little late) to move in this direction - whether it's for their car, or creating an AppleVR headset. It's a natural and organic fit to both their mobile computing/phone and AppleTV products.
That's pretty funny.
I never really cared about VR until I got a free Google Cardboard and the tried the VRSE app. Hella cool.
Go into a Best Buy and try their Gear VR. Google Cardboard is great. But the headset Samsung has is very comfortable and more immersive - not to mention, it has its own sensors so things are very smooth. I'm sure a Rift is even better - but for Samsung new device owners, $99 for this piece of tech is a steal.
Au contraire!
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Oh, I wasn't aware I could finally cut the cord and get my live TV through Apple TV. I seem to remember Steve Jobs saying he cracked it, yet somehow it's still a hobby.
If Samsung would update their phones in a timely manner I would be using a Gear VR with a S6 right now. And I would also be using Samsung pay a lot more than Apple Pay as well.
Samsung fixed the design of the phone with premium materials but they stepped back with software updates. I'm looking forward to the S7 but I know that the software issue would drive me crazy.
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Apple Watch and Apple TV more groundbreaking than iPad? No way. Even Apple called ATV a hobby and the Apple Watch is a beta product that happens to be a consumer product; it still needs tons of work. The iPad basically made Android tablets look like crap and is the reason why we have Apple pencil today.
If I had my choice between a iPad, ATV or Apple pencil it would be the original 9.7" tablet.
I'm running DK2 right now on a cMP, Bootcamp, and a 7970 GPU (the latter is marginal at best). Saving my money for the Vive, custom Windows machine with a nVidia 980ti. You screwed up Apple.
You remind me of the guy who wants to dine at a group's former favorite restaurant, because "the place totally still exists" even after they got a new (bad) chef and a new menu without proper value proposition.
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