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DigiTimes: Apple Has Temporarily Stopped Developing AR/VR Headsets, Team Disbanded in May [Updated]
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So if people that wore these things from Google were called "glassholes", because Google starts with "gl", what will people that wear these from Apple be called since Apple begins with an "a"?
I think AR tech will be amazing and we will see a lot of companies doing work in AR including Apple. But mass market consumer AR glasses? Is the tech ready? None of the demos I’ve seen even with big bulky prototypes running on powerful desktop computers show that it is, much less more discrete stylish portable consumer versions.
And that’s both on the hardware and software side.
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They always had paid content and they are very reliable. Nothing can be done without Taiwanese suppliers.
This is NOT cancelled... at worst delayed.
Tec is moving towards this space and Apple has invested a lot of time and money into AR.
AR glasses will be a reality sometime in the near future, even though it might seem very much future tec right now.
Apple is the company that can put together all the pieces and make it a real product.
Tec is moving towards this space and Apple has invested a lot of time and money into AR.
AR glasses will be a reality sometime in the near future, even though it might seem very much future tec right now.
Apple is the company that can put together all the pieces and make it a real product.
Not surprising, you look like a right total prat wearing these things.. leave them to the professional field.
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Erm that’s EXACTLY what they are going to become, they’ve stated as much!
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Erm that’s EXACTLY what they are going to become, they’ve stated as much!
Yes, specific scenarios. It's a complementary piece of hardware at the most, very fancy yeah.
That's just because all the technology to recognize humans, pull them out of raster images and film, model them in 3d, texture map them, animate them, and place them in AR environments, is new enough that it's only just barely started getting combined into applications. Even as fast as things are moving, it's still going to take time to merge all these technologies into what they're headed toward. Integrated, they enable the ability to see films & games playing out in your immediate environment all around you, with interchangeable actors from all of recorded history. And if that seems like it's got limited appeal, consider how valuable that level of interaction and control are to gaming and adult entertainment. Having WWI play out in your back yard, led by Cary Grant and Salvador Dali, with Audrey Hepburn and pornstars from the 1970s getting down in the storyline, all playing out life size in your back yard... Currently it may be cutting edge and unproven, but in a few short years it will be the norm.
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I really really doubt that. Maybe they postponed the launch, but it seems really clear that this will eventually come to fruition. It's just a matter of when the technology is ready.
Im 110% certain, this is exactly how products will start to look from now going forward, since Ive has departed
I’m kidding of course.Sad if it’s true, but I really think the technology isn’t ready yet. 2020 sounded HIGHLY dubious and unlikely. I would guess a 2023 release would be realistic maybe, maybe even later. I think it’ll take some time still. If the 2020 phones get laser sensing to occlude AR objects by people or items being In front of them, it would be HUGE. From then I guess it’s another few years till the glasses could do the same in a great quality that’s up to apples standards.
The award for Most Silliest Story Type - the Apple product that was never announced, never had any legitimate tech leaks, never talked about in any way by any official at Apple - is now dead...because some analyst thinks so. I heard that Apple has also stopped the development of its Time Machine (iTime).
Tim cancelled it because he found out his plans for subscription-based access to vision would be unlikely to succeed.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(macOS)
Digitimes just out there trying to pump Apple for info. Most likely glasses will materialize but they’re still a few years away and as we know the first version always needs improving
So unfortunately we could be talking 3-4 years
Eek that’s a long time
So unfortunately we could be talking 3-4 years
Eek that’s a long time
