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Apple Vision Pro 'Visual Search' Feature Can Identify Items, Copy Printed Text, Translate and More
The Apple Vision Pro headset's visionOS operating system includes a feature called "Visual Search," which sounds like it is similar to the Visual Lookup feature on the iPhone and the iPad.
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Vision Pro Features 'Left Out' For Now Include Fitness Apps, Full-Body Tracking, and More
The Information's Wayne Ma today reiterated several features that Apple apparently developed but did not announce for the Vision Pro at WWDC earlier this month, including various fitness and wellness apps, full-body tracking, and more.
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Apple hits record high one week after announcing Vision Pro VR headset
Apple stock rose over 1.5% Monday to close at $183.79 per share, which is the all-time-high share price for the company.
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Can Apple Take the Metaverse Mainstream?
The iPhone maker is making a bold bet that it can redefine the niche category of virtual reality with its $3,500 goggles.
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Apple has bought an AR headset startup called Mira
Mira makes headsets for other companies and the military.
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First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good.
After a roughly 30 minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test I came away convinced that Apple has delivered nothing less than a genuine leapfrog in capability and execution of XR — or mixed reality with its new Apple Vision Pro.
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16 years ago, people spent days in lines around the block to buy iPhones. Apple is announcing a new gadget today and no one seems to care.
Did you even know, before you opened this post, that today, Apple is launching another massive new product?
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Meta announces its Quest 3 VR headset, which will cost $499.99
Meta will share more about it at Connect in September.
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Meta conducts yet another round of layoffs
Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company’s so-called “Year of Efficiency,” in which Meta is being massively restructured to save money and flatten the organization structure.
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A moment’s silence, please, for the death of the Metaverse
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember the metaverse, which was quietly laid to rest a few weeks ago by its grieving adoptive parent, one Mark Zuckerberg. Those of you with long memories will remember how, in October 2021, Zuck (as he is known to his friends) excitedly announced the arrival of his new adoptee, to which he had playfully assigned the nickname “The Future”.
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Meta's Reality Labs lost $3.99 billion last year, bringing its total losses since 2020 to $30 billion
It seems that no matter how much money Meta's Reality Labs unit loses, Mark Zuckerberg refuses to give up on the company's metaverse ambitions. In its first-quarter earnings report, Meta said Reality Labs, responsible for its metaverse-related tech, recorded a $3.99 billion operating loss. The latest figure means that since 2020, the division has lost a massive $30 billion.
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Mark Zuckerberg denied the ‘narrative’ that he’s ditching the metaverse and he unveiled a new goal: bringing ‘A.I. agents’ to ‘billions of people’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that he isn't changing the company's name to include the letters A.I. anytime soon. During Meta's quarterly earnings conference call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg took aim at recent headlines that suggested the company is abandoning its ambitions to create a digital world, or "metaverse," so that it could focus instead on the A.I. craze sweeping over Silicon Valley.
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Apple VR tester "blown away" by secret demo experience
A new report says that a tester with inside, hands-on experience using Apple's upcoming virtual reality headset has gone from being underwhelmed by the experience to "blown away" by the new device. In June, Apple is expected to debut a mixed-reality headset at its annual developer's conference, WWDC 2023. You've been hearing about the headset for years, which is now expected to debut in just a few short weeks.
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At Apple, Rare Dissent Over a New Product: Interactive Goggles
The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
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Some Apple Employees Seriously Concerned About Mixed-Reality Headset as Announcement Draws Closer
Initial enthusiasm around the device at the company has apparently become skepticism, according to eight current and former Apple employees speaking to The New York Times. The change of tone reportedly marks an unprecedented level of concern about a new Apple product inside the company, in stark contrast to previous product launches that were pursued with single-mindedness and enthusiasm.
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Metaverse is just VR, admits Meta, as it lobbies against 'arbitrary' network fee
Meta, the self-styled "metaverse company" formerly known as Facebook, has taken on a novel role de-hyping the virtual world technology its founder bet the farm on just a few short years ago...
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Epic CEO fears Apple's influence over the metaverse
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney believes Apple is a major "roadblock in the way of Epic's vision for a metaverse."
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Magic mushrooms, magical worlds: How VR and psychedelics are being combined in therapy
From private beaches and crackling bonfires to stars that hold the recordings of fleeting thoughts, virtual reality is being used in combination with psychedelic therapy.
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Bigscreen's first VR headset is supposedly the world's smallest
Bigscreen has unveiled its first VR headset, and it's billed as the smallest ever
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Over 100 PlayStation VR2 games are in development, Sony says
Over 100 games are in development for PSVR2, but they might not get physical releases.
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