Apple Reportedly Has Small Team Working on Augmented Reality Projects

[Multiverse223]

Apple's augmented reality will come through the iPhone camera. There will be numerous sensors next to the camera lens on the iPhone, which analyze different things about the landscape and objects in front of your iPhone, and give live information on the screen. No one wants to wear glasses just for computer reasons.

Now, they could also make a virtual reality headset which one would wear at home, which possibilities are endless for. Put the headset on, put on your Virtual reality clothes and you are transferred into another world and the clothes will have exceedingly intricate sensors and haptic feedback which will all combine to make the virtual reality as real as possible. Imagine feeling a sensation that feels like wind against your skin from the haptic feedback on the clothes. You are playing a horror video game and the antagonist comes up behind you and grabs your shoulder and you feel it as if it were absolutely real. I mean the possibilities are so great that you could create things that people would actually not want to experience, they'd be that real-feeling.

 

[MOFS]

I'm sure that Apple has a number of teams working on an assortment of random projects (including VR and AR), but I can't see the social problems being overcome - for me, people as a whole don't like the idea of people secretly recording/ taking pictures of them. I think the Apple Watch is the better solution, and I suspect the better way to do wearables is to make the watch the master object, and have a thin touchscreen tethered to it for photos and browsing, with advances in Siri allowing improved voice directions to the watch.

 

[HenryDJP]

Assuming the article is correct... I'm glad they have no intentions of doing anything soon and they aren't aggressively pushing for anything either.

Google released far-to-early in the product development lifecycle, as I believe they are coming to readily admit.

Microsoft has a very interesting product, however both it's strength and weakness is that it is not intended for general every-day use so much as a tool to solve specific problems at both home and work.

It's a space that will likely take another 4 to 5 years to even understand, much-less design a marketable product for.

Patience is a virtue.

Karl P

I 100% disagree. There's no "perfect" time for innovation. What would be the point in stifling production of an idea? Don't take this the wrong way but thank heavens you're not heading off Apple, Google or any other major company. New ideas need to be pumped out ASAP.

 

[BornAgainMac]

I get this feeling they are thinking about integrating this with the Apple car as an extra option.

 

[FuNGi]

Sweet. Another product I can feel directly on my skin...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-fans-demand-other-products-they-can-feel-dir,38174/

 

[Jakexb]

And a web browser that doesn't crash 22 times a day would be nice. At this point I'd be happy if they could make one for iOS or OSX is both is too much to ask.

If your Safari is crashing 22 times a day, I have no idea what is going on. Safari never crashes for me.

 

[blacktape242]

angry cat says.... NO

 

[Trapezoid]

I look forward to Apple releasing their augmented reality hardware and everyone debating who did it first, who made it popular and who makes the most money off of it.

Oh good times lie ahead, MR.

I look forward to people pointing out that one person said augmented reality sucks and another saying it doesn't and then saying they found that amusing

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Augmented reality won't be successful if the user has to wear a device on their head. When the day comes that a computerized system could be small enough to be integrated into contact lenses...only then will augmented reality take off.

I agree with the first sentence, disagree with the second.

Contact lenses have a lot of drawbacks. If that weren't the case, nobody would be wearing glasses - they'd all be wearing contact lenses (and there wouldn't be any laser eye surgeries, because why bother, everyone can just pop in their magical contact lenses that have no drawbacks.)

I expect the holodeck is more likely to become reality than anything else.

 

[Yojimbo007]

Nothing new.
Thry have been at this and VR fir a long time..
Its the next paradigm!

 

[samcraig]

I look forward to people pointing out that one person said augmented reality sucks and another saying it doesn't and then saying they found that amusing

And I look forward to someone posting asking if there is any proof of the same people saying both of the above?

 

[Antares]

Augmented reality wearables will only be successful for the masses once they become indistinguishable from the glasses and sunglasses people already wear. Right now, the devices look funky and the people wearing them look like _____.

 

[diipii]

To enable people to live in a reality where the Apple Watch is worth buying.

And the Mini still has 4 cores.

 

[Trapezoid]

And I look forward to someone posting asking if there is any proof of the same people saying both of the above?

Followed inevitably by "you don't get my point so I'm not gonna discuss it anymore!!! "

Fun times ahead.

 

[samcraig]

Followed inevitably by "you don't get my point so I'm not gonna discuss it anymore!!! "

Fun times ahead.

Well now you're just being mean. Clearly you don't get my point so I'm not going to discuss it anymore!!

 

[powers74]

I would post a one word response, but that would get me banned.

 

[jrswizzle]

Hm.. My glasses must have some of this functionality built in, because I already live in that world.

I don't even wear glasses and I live in that world too.

It must be built directly into my eyeball. I have iCones and iRods in my iRetinas.....

 

[brianvictor7]

I 100% disagree. There's no "perfect" time for innovation. What would be the point in stifling production of an idea? Don't take this the wrong way but thank heavens you're not heading off Apple, Google or any other major company. New ideas need to be pumped out ASAP.

Respectfully submit that while there is no "perfect" time for innovation there certainly is a profitable time and that is, among other things, when the product is in a usable state. That said, it is nice to see Microsoft and Google showing their cards in this race for Augmented Reality. Competition is good.

 

[Trapezoid]

Well now you're just being mean. Clearly you don't get my point so I'm not going to discuss it anymore!!

Oh great it's already starting...

 

[Edsel]

Becoming an Apple "patriot" is a form of augmented reality.

 

[mojolicious]

*shrug*

I would hope/expect that Apple have small teams working on lots of tech projects...

Doesn't mean they will ever see production as an Apple product.

Exactly this. Apple can afford to employ a hundred 'small teams' each with $5m a year running costs researching a hundred different nascent technologies, 90% of which will come to absolutely nothing.

It would be negligent of Apple not to do so.

 

[Edsel]

I get this feeling they are thinking about integrating this with the Apple car as an extra option.

That would be perfect. I could be driving a virtual Ferrari to the grocery store in my Apple iPutt

 

[Stella]

I'm very much looking forward to having 'smart glasses', connected up to internet.

Make navigation easier, reading bar codes and looking up the price / product details, who is calling you, email ( not while driving!) / messages etc .

It is extremely cool and exciting technology with lots of possibilities.

There's a whole lot more than just fearing the technology - i.e., recording the public.

 

[doelcm82]

First give me a map that gets me where I want to go. Then augment reality all you want.

But don't do the map thing until after making sure that no child in the world goes to bed hungry.

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I look forward to people pointing out that one person said augmented reality sucks and another saying it doesn't and then saying they found that amusing

I look forward to imagining things people might say and then reacting to the things they hypothetically said.

 

[d4rkc4sm]

proverbial grain of salt

how about i take it literally, like right now. wow salty on my tongue

lets get more hits quoting someone with a bad track record, because you know bored