Job Listing Points Towards Apple's Continued Interest in Virtual Reality

[PinkyMacGodess]

Looks like a SCUBA mask. #Awkward...

If I'm going to be wearing something like that, I better be getting wet, and by more than my tears as people laugh at me.

 

[T-Will]

Yes because so many of apples products are flopping. Perhaps that's why they're the biggest and most profitable tech company and the stock is at a record high. Flop, flop.

I agree with you and I am a huge Apple fan, but VR and especially whatever this patent is trying to show, looks a little large and unwieldy, and something I wouldn't use. I personally don't think VR will ever become mainstream.

 

[Klae17]

Why get excited about something that would be years and years away IF it ever happens. It's silly how this site takes every little patent or job posting and acts like they mean that Apple will be releasing a related product next month.

If any of that were true, years ago the iPhone would have had a virtual keyboard, 3D display, video projector, NFC, and much more according to claims MacRumors has made. It's silly to invest in anything posted here as fact.

It says in the post that it might not go to fruitation. Why do you care what people get excited about so much?

 

[MacSince1990]

Apple should buy a company like VOIS and harness their thought-controlled technology.

 

[sdugoten]

So, you mean people wearing this thing running on the street?

I can't wait.........................to laugh.

 

[Virtua1]

Techies: Headmounted VR = cool / Mass Market: I'm not putting that on my face.

Dear Apple - People don't like to put stuff on their heads.

Look at the 3D backlash. Naysayers aside, the tech for 3D in theaters and the home is solid, consistent, and stable. When done well (Avatar, Gravity, How to Train Your Dragon, Playstation 3 - MotorStorm Apocolypse), 3D is stunning.

When done poorly, and still charged a premium for (Clash of the Titans, The Last Airbender), it's a disaster. People get angry, some people maintain they can't afford it, and just call it stupid.

And a large portion complain incessantly about lightweight glasses and refuse to wear them. Many claims of "eye strain" are just pure annoyance. Now multiply that negative reaction times 100 with a large headmounted VR display. Even as fan of the Oculus Rift (having used it a couple times), I can say with a fair degree of certainty that while YouTube videos of grandmas reacting to the Oculus are fun and heartwarming, the mass market will not be purchasing headmounted VR in iPhone numbers...

 

[SmileyBlast!]

I agree with you and I am a huge Apple fan, but VR and especially whatever this patent is trying to show, looks a little large and unwieldy, and something I wouldn't use. I personally don't think VR will ever become mainstream.

Just imagine what people will be snap chatting on those.

But yeah... I don't want it. Didn't they learn anything from Google Glass?

It's not going to work unless they look stylish like a pair of sun glasses.

 

[iPadCary]

There IS A God ....

I'm not ashamed to say it: I wept when I read this news. Wept ....

It's the ultimate technology, and I knew Apple would do it the best.
But everyone believes Apple is so anti-gaming, so I always dreamt of Apple
working very secretly, very quietly, on a home VR deck that would,
quite literally, blow peoples' minds ....

Tim said Apple's working on things that aren't even rumored about ....
Can you think of anything so, conspiculously absent, not associated with "anti-gaming Apple" than VR?!?

I also dreamed about this project being spearheaded by Woz, also in secret.
Jesus Christ almighty I cannot tell you how joyous this news has me.

 

[ctdonath]

And people here make fun of Google Glass.

Because it wildly under-performed. I've tried it; amazingly disappointing.

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Then Google made Cardboard

...and I was so disappointed that Apple has nothing of the kind.
Cardboard works surprisingly well. Pop in the intended phone, get a good-performance virtual world. $20 (you've already got the phone, so that's already a sunk cost). Sure, Oculus is far superior - but Cardboard is accessible. Set some basic standards, drop hardware entry cost to near zero, and start drawing people into the new VR wing of the walled garden. Make it so easy it's hard not to. A few hundred dollars will make newcomers balk, but at the price of a couple lunches you can get people in - if it works.

 

[MrCrowbar]

Just implant a display in my eye already. The iPhone seems to handle 4K quite well which seems to be a reasonable resolution for the eyes.
Overlay arrows and distance markers right on the roads for navigation: yes please.
Highlight important traffic signs: absolutely
Update the step counter at each step: sure
Show me song info and lyrics of what I'm hearing (great for impromptu concerts where I always forget the lyrics)
Zoom in the camera feed when I squint for better stalking
Overlay infrared camera feed at night

This:
http://youtu.be/96DLgFImPjI

The mouth on the left picture looks like a vagina.

 

[Tech198]

kewl

lol @ better stalking...

this video is too good.... obviously someone on a death wish..... he's too interested in technology than to stay alive.

If this is the future, then leave me out..... I don't wanna be a mindless zombie, so hooked with tech to this level i don't even care what else is in the real world..

I don't mind Google Glass, but really all this tech i think we all all going way overboard....

this is what the future will be : http://www.hwdyk.com/q/images/futurama_s03e15_09.jpg

Because it wildly under-performed. I've tried it; amazingly disappointing.

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...and I was so disappointed that Apple has nothing of the kind.
Cardboard works surprisingly well. Pop in the intended phone, get a good-performance virtual world. $20 (you've already got the phone, so that's already a sunk cost). Sure, Oculus is far superior - but Cardboard is accessible. Set some basic standards, drop hardware entry cost to near zero, and start drawing people into the new VR wing of the walled garden. Make it so easy it's hard not to. A few hundred dollars will make newcomers balk, but at the price of a couple lunches you can get people in - if it works.

Cheap, but i think it only for Android ....

Many Apple never got this because they knew they could do better... Why would Apple bring a basic cardboard thing to the table? Apple of all company. I guess it would give a test for users to try at the very least, than to sit and twiddle our thumbs.... waiting....... then we find out Apple has got this monstrosity...

I'd would rather something 100 times thinner myself, and lighter, or at the very least Apple's own version of Glass. But that's just me...

 

[WvB22]

I hope people do understand that the final version, if one will ever comes up, will look nothing like this. Companies will patent everything they think that might be useful some day. Even if they will never use it.